With his final breaths, one of the aviators provided information to give Allied artillery accurate coordinates to target ...
The Argonne offensive encountered difficulties from the start, but an exceptional crisis began on Oct. 3, when 554 soldiers ... It was no easy task. Whittlesey’s men had laid out white panels ...
Besides three children, Shemin left behind numerous supporters who kept up the appeal for an upgrade. On June 2, 2015, his ...
Article continues below Second Lt Barr was one of three 'unknown' British soldiers of WW1 to finally be named at a poignant ceremony in Belgium on Wednesday. The Lanarkshire Live app is available ...
William Shemin was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nearly 100 years after his heroic actions during WWI. (Congressional ... Amid the fighting, Shemin saw a soldier cut down 150 yards ...
Amid the fighting, Shemin saw a soldier cut down 150 yards from the nearest cover. As his citation notes, Shemin “left cover and crossed an open space … exposed to heavy machine-gun fire” to ...
Second Lt Barr was one of three 'unknown' British soldiers of WW1 to finally be named at a poignant ceremony in Belgium on Wednesday. He was remembered at Zantvoorde British Cemetery and Lance ...
A hero soldier from The Great War will finally be laid to rest later this year after DNA tests proved his identity. Lieutenant James Allan died aged just 20 on the first day of the infamous Battle ...
A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.
Before they were soldiers, they were farmers, bootmakers, blacksmiths, and kauri climbers. Artist Lindsey Kirk’s latest exhibition brings New Zealand’s wartime history to life — not through ...