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Valentine Joseph Strudwick (14 February 1900 – 14 January 1916), also known as Joe Strudwick or Valentine Joe Strudwick, was a British soldier who was killed in the First World War. He enlisted when he was 14 years old and was one of the youngest soldiers to die in the war, aged 15.Valentine strud
Julian Henry Francis Grenfell DSO (30 March 1888 – 26 May 1915) was a British soldier and a war poet of World War I. Early life ... In a letter from October 1914 ...
Close-up of the soldier reading his letter, showing Jagger's attention to detail Jagger's model for the statue, on display in Founders' Hall, London The GWR began commemorations for its war dead from December 1915, when it first published its casualty statistics, starting with a paper roll of honour held in a custom-made wooden case and ...
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short . [ 1 ] It shows footage from World War I , World War II , the Korean War , the Vietnam War and the Gulf War , overlaid with readings of letters from US troops fighting ...
If somebody one day found a letter from a German soldier who was in that area, then we would have something credible". [34] [35] Lieutenant Kurt Zehmisch of the 134th Saxon Infantry Regiment said that the English "brought a soccer ball from their trenches, and pretty soon a lively game ensued. How marvellously wonderful, yet how strange it was ...
When Andrew Carroll’s family home in Washington, DC, burned down in 1989, no one was hurt, thank God. A distant cousin, James Carroll Jordan, heard of the conflagration and called to check in ...
The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his male sweetheart emerged more than 70 years later after Mark Hignett, from Oswestry, Shropshire, began purchasing the letters from eBay.
Belgian soldiers on the Yser Front read a letter from a marraine de guerre in a posed propaganda photograph, 1915. A war godmother (French: marraine de guerre; Dutch: oorlogsmeter) is someone who volunteers to provide succour to or in other ways support a serving soldier - a 'godson' (filleul) - who might have no close family ties.