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During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and the Ottoman-supported Kelantan rebellion in British Malaya.
The British soldiers went to war in August 1914 wearing the 1902 Pattern Service Dress tunic and trousers. This was a thick woollen tunic, dyed khaki.There were two breast pockets for personal items and the soldier's AB64 Pay Book, two smaller pockets for other items, and an internal pocket sewn under the right flap of the lower tunic where the First Field Dressing was kept.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
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Armed with 1x 7,62mm machine gun & 2x 5,56mm light machine gun or 1x M134D minigun & 2x 5,56mm light machine gun. ILSV Indonesia: Light strike vehicle 4 [128] Made by J-Forces and Indonesian Aerospace, different variants were made. Flyer Light Strike Vehicle Australia: Light strike vehicle Flyer R-12D LSV 5 [130] Utility Pionierpanzer 2 Germany
Following the outbreak of hostilities in World War I, the German Army's primary military strategy was what is commonly referred to as the Schlieffen Plan, which sought to outflank Germany's shared border with the French Republic, whom they anticipated would be prepared for an invasion, by invading through the Low Countries. The success of the ...
The word haversack is an adaptation of the German Hafersack [1] and also the Dutch haverzak [2] meaning "oat sack", (which more properly describes a small cloth bag on a strap worn over one shoulder and originally referred to the bag of oats carried as horse fodder).
In 1917, during the First World War, the armies on the Western Front continued to change their fighting methods, due to the consequences of increased firepower, more automatic weapons, decentralisation of authority and the integration of specialised branches, equipment and techniques into the traditional structures of infantry, artillery and cavalry.