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  2. Billet - Wikipedia

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    Soldiers are generally billeted in barracks or garrisons when not on combat duty, although in some armies soldiers with families are permitted to maintain a home off-post. Used for a building, the term billet is more commonly used in British English; United States standard terms are quarters, barracks, Single (Soldier) Housing or Family Housing.

  3. Cowboy bedroll - Wikipedia

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    This rubber blanket was very waterproof and made it possible for the soldier to sleep relatively dry for the first time in the history of warfare. [citation needed] Prior to this time, most soldiers of the world's regular armies may or may not have been issued a wool blanket. Very crude groundcloths of "painted canvas" were sometimes secured by ...

  4. United States in World War I - Wikipedia

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    The Last of the Doughboys: The Forgotten Generation and their Forgotten World War (2013) Snell, Mark A., ed. Unknown Soldiers: The American Expeditionary Forces in Memory and Remembrance (Kent State UP, 2008). Trout, Steven. On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941 (University of Alabama Press, 2010)

  5. World War I - Wikipedia

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    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."

  6. List of World War I monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of World War I monuments and memorials. ... Soldiers Memorial Hall, Toowoomba; St Andrew's Presbyterian Memorial Church, Innisfail;

  7. Live and let live (World War I) - Wikipedia

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    Officers cooking near the Western Front during World War I. Live and let live is the non-aggressive co-operative behavior that developed spontaneously during the First World War, particularly during prolonged periods of trench warfare on the Western Front. Perhaps one of the most famous examples of this is the Christmas truce of 1914.

  8. British Army uniform and equipment in World War I - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Western Front (World War I) - Wikipedia

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    Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War I: Clockwise from top left: Men of the Royal Irish Rifles, concentrated in the trench, right before going over the top on the First day on the Somme; British soldier carries a wounded comrade from the battlefield on the first day of the Somme; A young German soldier during the Battle of Ginchy; American infantry storming a German bunker ...