During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

The Rockport Police Department, alongside the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and Rockport Fire Department, responded ...

"The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time" So remarked the British Foreign ...

During construction at Pearson Airfield, an archeologist found what could be unexploded Stokes Mortars dating back to World ...

Typically, when people think of submarine warfare, they probably recall the deadly U-boats of World War II. While that conflict saw widespread use of submarines, it was hardly the first to utilize ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

The Scharnhorst was discovered on the third day of the Seabed Constructor's search 98 nautical miles southeast of the Falkland Islands at a depth of 1610 meters. The Falklands Maritime Heritage ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

Travel in the Highlands was severely restricted during WW1 and anyone wishing to do so had to apply for a special pass.The Highlands were seen as strategically important during the First World War.