- Official - WWI Thread

[Montegriffo]

Portraits in the sand...

[heydaralon]

Portraits in the sand...

That's pretty cool. I saw a picture once of a bunch of WW1 soldiers standing in the shape of a horse head to honor all the horses that were lost during the war. I am a cynical person, but it was oddly moving seeing the soldiers pay tribute to their horses.

[GloryofGreece]

Portraits in the sand...

That's pretty cool. I saw a picture once of a bunch of WW1 soldiers standing in the shape of a horse head to honor all the horses that were lost during the war. I am a cynical person, but it was oddly moving seeing the soldiers pay tribute to their horses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkdcvzchXKw

[C-Mag]

WWI took 16 Million lives in just short of 4 and a half years. But quietly, that death toll would pale in comparison of another killer that started to march in 1918 and fade away in 1919, the Spanish Flu. The Spanish Flu killed 25-50 Million globally.


Now, a hundred years later, Dr Michael Worobey of the University of Arizona may be close to unlocking the origins of the disease. The story is interesting, maybe I'm too big a fan of fiction like the Adromeda Strain, but scientists tinkering with diseases concerns me.

Late one night Michael Worobey began poking around on the internet, looking for descendants of a World War I British military doctor named William Rolland.

Rolland, a pathologist, had written a report in 1917, the year before the start of the Spanish flu. It described cases of British soldiers in France who had contracted an unusually fatal respiratory illness. Worobey, an evolutionary biology professor with a particular interest in the 1918 pandemic, wanted to know whether any of Rolland’s samples might still be lying about a century later.

Within a few hours, he had found a possible contact and fired off an email. Across the Atlantic, 5,000 miles away, a retired family physician in England’s picturesque Lake District received it. He replied immediately.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/12/05/191 ... g-mystery/

[Ex-California]

Our grandfather from photos of those Army days of his in 1918-1919. Tomorrow, 11 November, is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1. Arrived from Ireland into New York City on 5 October 1912 aboard the RMS Celtic of the White Star Line. This same year the Titanic of White Star Line had gone done in April, just months before. This Irish lad felt it his duty to join the US Army and go to France via Camp Mills, New Jersey. He is the one in the photos with the crossed fingers. We have so much to be thankful to him for all he did for the Owens/McGee families.

Thank you, Pa

[C-Mag]

Our grandfather from photos of those Army days of his in 1918-1919. Tomorrow, 11 November, is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1. Arrived from Ireland into New York City on 5 October 1912 aboard the RMS Celtic of the White Star Line. This same year the Titanic of White Star Line had gone done in April, just months before. This Irish lad felt it his duty to join the US Army and go to France via Camp Mills, New Jersey. He is the one in the photos with the crossed fingers. We have so much to be thankful to him for all he did for the Owens/McGee families.

Thank you, Pa

+1
Cool Stuff.

[GloryofGreece]

Good fairly unique take on "Christmas Truce" and WWI more broadly. Cheers!
Yuletide After Dark - Requiem for a Century of Self Destruction (Myth20c - Ep102)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIT7Z2dwc-0

[Haumana]

Watching now.

[C-Mag]

Gavrillo Princip - The teenage commie that changed your world
Interesting article, if you have a hint about history you know his name, but how much do you know about the teenager.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/gavrilo-princip

[C-Mag]

Italian troops drag a 7 ton artillery piece up to a 10k feet firing position, it's still there.




https://scrapironflotilla.tumblr.com/


Every time I see pics of the Alpine front in WWI, I think it must have been the most brutal of all, and gets no attention.