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Sergeant Stubby (1916 – March 16, 1926) was a dog, the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I and travelled with his division to France to fight alongside the French.
Donovan named the dog Rags, having mistaken him for a pile of them when he first found him. Donovan had marched in the Bastille Day parade and was late in reporting back to his unit. To avoid being Absent Without Leave , Donovan told Military Police that Rags was the missing mascot of the 1st Infantry Division and that he was part of a search ...
Pages in category "Dogs in World War I" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... This page was last edited on 9 December 2024, ...
poem XXXVIII: 'News of Jutland' by Roma White – refers to the Battle of Jutland; poem XLIII: 'Per Ardua ad Astra' by Gordon Alchin – title refers to the motto of the Royal Flying Corps; poem XLVI: 'The Death of the Zeppelin' by O. – refers to the defence mounted against the Zeppelins; poem XLVII: 'The Last Salute' by Robert Nichols ...
Linda Blackford: Jim Hellard, 98, one of the Kentucky’s last living WWII veterans was first interviewed by this paper in 1946. Here’s the follow-up. A soldier, his Nazi dog, the Battle of the ...
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As in most of his poems, Trakl does not speak of himself in the first person, even though he experienced the battle of Grodek first-hand, [1] causing the poem to be "perhaps be the most impersonal front-line poem ever written". [8] The last line, Die ungebornen Enkel, can either be translated literally as "the unborn grandchildren" or more ...
Commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1914, Nichols served on the Western Front, including the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme, until invalided home with shell shock in August 1916. He began to give poetry readings, in 1917. In 1918 he was a member of an official British propaganda mission to the USA, where he also gave ...