16 This is just such a lovely photo! Looks like the tent’s blown down! © IWM Q 97157 0 comments · 15h ago · by Debbie Cameron #ww1
0 15 August 1914 The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia. 0 comments · 13h ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 15 August 1916 Private Lawrence Huffam (723) 48 Bn Australian Infantry died of wounds and was buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension. Lawrence is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial 0 comments · 14h ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 15 August 1915 Private Joseph Percy Clarke (12258) 2 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and buried in Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery. Joseph is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial 0 comments · 14h ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 15 August 1917 Private Thomas Purtill (82311) Machine Gun Corps was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate. Thomas is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial 0 comments · 14h ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 15 August 1917 Gunner Walter Scowcroft (736108) Royal Field Artillery was killed in action and was buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery. Walter is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial 0 comments · 14h ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
15 August 1917 A German trench mortar section marching past Admiral Ludwig von Schroeder (with grey beard) at the Town Hall at Bruges. 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
7 During 1916 aboard the Austrio-Hungarian battleship SMS Tegetthoff in Pola, sailors practice gymnastics on the pommel horse & parallel bars. 0 comments · 1d ago · by Snapshots of Naval History #austria#austriohungary#hungary
4 14 August 1916 Robert Beckh writes ‘A Song and a Smile’ It would be the last thing he wrote. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
38 14 Aug 1917 // Q-ship HMS Prize (ex German schooner Else) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB.48 in the Western Atlantic with all 27 crew lost. The painting, c1922 by Charles Dixon, shows the earlier sinking of U.93 by HMS Prize, 30 April 1917. (National Maritime Museum) 0 comments · 1d ago · by RN ship losses #royalnavy#ww1
3 Women munitions workers guide shells moving along an overhead gantry at a factory in Chilwell, near Nottingham - England, July 1917. Over 500,000 a day were used at the Third Battle of Ypres. 0 comments · 1d ago · by WatW #england#history#worldwar1
1 14 August 1917 Ivor Gurney sends a second draft of ‘Camps’ to Marion Scott Out of the line we rest in villages Quiet indeed, where heal the spirit’s scars. But even so, lapped deep in sunshine and ease, We are haunted for ever by the shapes of wars 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 14 August 1918 Column of German prisoners with British escort on the road at Villers-Bretonneux. IWM Q80020 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
6 14 August 1917 2nd Lt Arthur James Hibbert, Royal Field Artillery died and was buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Arthur is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
3 14 August 1917 Lt Francis Lansdown 1 Bn British West Indies Regiment was murdered and was buried in Deir El Belah War Cemetery. Francis is also remembered on the Cheadle Hulme Memorial 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
2 14 August 1916 Private John Swindells (114072) 5 Bn Canadian Mounted Rifles was killed in action and was buried in Bedford House Cemetery John is also remembered on the Bredbury & Romiley War Memorial 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
2 14 August 1917 Private George Nixon (242563) 2/6 Bn Lancashire Fusiliers died of wounds and was buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery. George is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 14 August 1917 The Republic of China, which had been shipping labourers to Europe to assist in the war effort, officially declares war on the Central Powers, although it will continue to send to Europe labourers instead of combatants for the remaining duration of the war. 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#ww1
0 14 August 1914 Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
0 14 August 1917 Private William Vallance Bond (41625) 6 Bn Yorkshire Regiment was killed in action and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate. William is also remembered inside the Stockport War Memorial 0 comments · 1d ago · by Paul #history#historymatters#ww1
