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The Smith College Relief Unit (SCRU) was a group of Smith College alumnae who aided in humanitarian relief work in France during and after the First World War.Funded by the Smith College Alumnae Association, the SCRU worked throughout the war serving under both the American Fund for French Wounded (AFFW) and later under the American Red Cross.
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.
The upper field pack had the same type of grommet tabs and loops as the M-1928 for attaching a bayonet and entrenchment tool plus straps for securing a "horseshoe" bedroll. [10] The M-1936 field bag was a copy of the British officers Musette bag of World War I and was issued to officers, engineers and mounted personnel.
Soldiers of the Leicestershire Regiment in France in 1915, in Full Marching Order. The ammunition pouches can be clearly seen. During the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, the standard British Army set of personal equipment, comprising a belt, haversack and ammunition pouches, was the leather Slade–Wallace equipment, which had been introduced in 1888.
The Flammenwerfer M.16. was a German man-portable backpack flamethrower that was used in World War I in trench warfare by the Germans. It was the first flamethrower ever used in combat, in 1916 at Verdun by the Germans.
7 December 1701: Chemnitz: XIX Army Corps: 105th (6th Royal Saxon) Infantry "King William II of Württemberg" 7 December 1701: Straßburg: XV Army Corps: 106th (7th Royal Saxon) Infantry "King George" 2 June 1708: Leipzig: XIX Army Corps: 107th (8th Royal Saxon) Infantry "Prince John George" 2 June 1708: Leipzig: XIX Army Corps
1914–1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an international, English-language online encyclopedia of the First World War.Deemed the largest research network of its kind, it officially went online on 8 October 2014. [1]