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Leete's drawing of Kitchener was the most famous image used in the British Army recruitment campaign of World War I. [2] [10] It continues to be considered a masterful piece of wartime propaganda as well as an enduring and iconic image of the war.
One of the explanations of the origin of the London slang term Old Bill, meaning the police, is that constables often used to sport "Old Bill" moustaches. [5] A 1911 B-type London bus, one of 900 which served as troop transports in World War I, was restored and named "Old Bill" in 1926. It is now preserved in the Imperial War Museum. [6]
Pages in category "Comics set during World War I" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Original - Although World War I was triggered by this chain of events unleashed by the assassination, the war's origins go deeper, involving national politics, cultures, economics, and a complex web of alliances and counterbalances that developed between the various European powers over the course of the nineteenth century, following the final 1815 defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the ensuing ...
Pages in category "Animated World War I films" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
However, NecroVision is one of the few first person shooters games set in World War I, where the player fights on known battlefields during the war, such as the Somme. Call of Duty: Black Ops II 's final DLC pack features "Origins", a zombie map that is set in a dieselpunk France during World War I.
Joan of Arc saved France–Women of America, save your country–Buy War Savings Stamps at War savings stamps of the United States, by Coffin and Haskell (edited by Durova) Canadian victory bond poster in English at Military history of Canada during World War I , author unknown (edited by Durova )
Old Bill says to the men around him "Mice!" What the Germans thought of this cartoon was revealed in a British newspaper clipping from World War II. Quoting a Nazi textbook taken from a German prisoner of war that shows the cartoon, the clipping reads: "Obviously, the hole was not made by a mouse. It was made by a shell.