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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 ...
Killed while trying to rescue a wounded soldier under heavy fire John H. Balch: Navy: Pharmacist's Mate First Class: Vierzy and Somme-Py, France: Jul 19, 1918 and Oct 5, 1918: Exposed himself to intense fire in order to treat the wounded and establish a dressing station Charles D. Barger: Army: Private First Class: near Bois-de-Bantheville, France
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 ...
While Parr is believed to be the first British Army soldier to have been killed in action, he was not the first such British Armed Forces casualty during the war, as on 6 August 1914 the British cruiser HMS Amphion (1911) hit a German mine and sank, killing about 150 sailors of the Royal Navy. Nor was he the first British soldier to lose his ...
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 ...
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.