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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

El Paso Herald on Oct 2 1914 publishes this photo of "A wounded Belgium artilleryman after having his wounds dressed; ready for another battle." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

3/3 Colourized by DB Colour who writes“1st Btn, Middx Regt, war dairy, shows that artillery fire killed 9 horses. 3 men were killed and 30 wounded ...man wounded in the head, maybe 2nd Lt Alfred Frederick Sang, who died of his wounds in Nº8 Hospital in Rouen" Oct 2 1914 bsky.app/profile/this...

The photo, IWM Q 51489, was taken on the Signy-Signets road by Robert Cotton Money #OTD Sep 8 1914
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022533

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Colourized by DB Colour who writes “The 1st Btn, Middx Regt, war dairy, shows that artillery fire killed nine horses. 3 men were killed and 30 wounded. The man wounded in the head [The man wearing the goggles, who belongs to the Intelligence Corps] may be 2nd Lt Alfred Frederick Sang, who died of his wounds in Nº8 Hospital in Rouen on 2 October 1914."

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Oct 2 1918 4AM A train carrying Spanish flu pulled into Calgary, 12 sick soldiers on their way to invade Russia were taken off. Within weeks, the disease spread and Alberta was in crisis www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 13h

Oct. 2, 1926: The marriage of 51-year-old New York millionaire Edward Browning and 16-year-old Frances "Peaches" Browning is over. The child bride whose supposed “Cinderella story” has been the subject of a tabloid frenzy leaves the couple’s estate for her mother’s home in New Jersey.

Their marital woes went on to inspire cartoon-like “composographs” in the New York Evening Graphic tabloid

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oct. 1, 1926: The head of the American Red Cross accuses Florida officials of covering up the extent of damage and suffering from last month’s monster hurricane to protect tourism and real estate. John Barton Payne says the boosterism has “practically destroyed” fundraising for relief.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1916 An Austro-Hungarian photographer takes this photo with Mt Rombon in the background. Is the man in the middle with saber in his belt Oberleutnant Johann Mickl of the Landwehr Infanterie Regiment 4? Was this after they took Čukla from the Italians? @tomisitt.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/this...

Umgebung von Flitsch, Slowenien, Julische Alpen; Fotograf: 10. Armeekommando, Rohr
Surroundings of Flitsch, Slovenia, Julian Alps; Photographer: 10th Army Command, Rohr
AKG2626006
1916-03-01
https://www.akg-images.co.uk/asset/2626006/
And we see kk Olt Mikl Johann of kk LIR4 (ab 1917 kk GebSchR1)
The mountain in the background is Rombon.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1916, in the Salonika Campaign (Based out of Greece) Ariel Varges takes this photo, IWM Q 32161, of a British soldier taking a dose of quinine, which was used in the fight against Malaria. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

IWM Q 32161 - "A British soldier's reaction to taking a dose of quinine powder, Struma Valley, summer 1916."
Creator: Ariel Varges (Photographer) https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205260403

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1915 Mounted French escort German POWs. Published in Vive la France! with caption: "photograph by Meurisse. The straggling columns of unkempt, unshaven men were in striking contrast to the helmeted giants on gigantic horses who guarded them." archive.org/details/vive... bsky.app/profile/this...

1915 Mounted French escort German POWs. Published in Vive la France! with the caption:
"From a photograph by Meurisse. The straggling columns of unkempt, unshaven men were in striking contrast to the helmeted giants on gigantic horses who guarded them." https://archive.org/details/vivelafranc00powe/page/n175/mode/1up

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Le Petit Journal on Oct 1 1916 Greek with traditional uniform is speaking with a French soldier The Hawaiian Gazette on Oct 15 1915 publishes this photo of what it claims is "Greek infantry on Macedonian border." photo is actually fighters from "Sparta" on the Greco-Turkish border

The Hawaiian Gazette #OTD Oct 15 1915 publishes this photo of what it claims is "Greek infantry on Macedonian border." Pic is actually fighters from "Sparta" on the Greco-Turkish border shortly before the war with Ottoman Turkey in Greco-Turkish War (1897) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_%281897%29https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1915-10-15/ed-1/seq-1/#

Le Petit Journal on Oct 1 1916 Greek with traditional uniform is speaking with a French soldier https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k7172299/f5.item

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Chickasha Daily Express #OTD Oct 1 1915 publishes this photo of famed Württemberg Regiment being inspected by the German Crown Prince and Field Marshal Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

PSM - Pg 197 Austrian troops observing Italian troop movements Oct 1 1917 on Silhouetted, an Imperial Austro-Hungarian soldier sits on a cliff face Soldiers on the summit during the Alpine War. Rifle patrol in the Dolomites. Sep 24 1917 Marmolata: "U"Süd Stellung. Datierung

Austria’s Natural Citadels

"Austrian outposts watching the movements of Italian troops. Imagine the difficulty of storming this spot! Yet the Italians are every day attacking a seemingly impregnable mountain top. The suffering on both sides in the Alpine campaign is terrible, for the cold in the high altitudes is most penetrating, and snow-storms sweeping through the mountains cause the loss of many lives in both the contending armies" https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo88newyuoft/page/196/mode/2up

Soldiers on the summit during the Alpine War. Rifle patrol in the Dolomites.

Weltkrieg 1916. Vom Hochgebirgskrieg. Schützenpatrouille in den Dolomiten. 1554-16 [Herausgabenummer]

Bild 183-S29727
https://bild.bundesarchiv.de/dba/de/search/?query=Bild+183-S29727

Oct 1 1917 #OTD Silhouetted, an Imperial Austro-Hungarian soldier sits on a cliff face on the Italian Front: Point of view 2555

Standpunkt: ¤ 2555: Stimmungsbild - BildID:15428684
01.10.1917
http://bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID=15428684 #silhouette

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Oct 2 1914 Labor Journal publishes this Alfred T. Renfro cartoon: Labor Pays The Price of War The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914 65,000 wounded Germans reach city of Cologne Evening Post Oct 3 1914 An avalanche of German wounded from Marne and the Aisne is taxing the French Red Cross facilities to utmost

Oct 2 1914 Everest, Washington Paper: Labor Pays The Price of War
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88085620/1914-10-02/ed-1/?sp=1&q=

The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914
65,000 wounded Germans reach city of Cologne
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1914-10-01/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.413,0.722,0.99,0.451,0

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 7
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19141003.2.45.15

AN AVALANCHE OF WOUNDED

CARNAGE HAS EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS RED CROSS FACILITIES TAXED TO THE UTMOST " PARIS, Ist October. An avalanche of German wounded from Marne and the Aisne is taxing the French Red Cross facilities to the utmost. Both German and British wounded are being hurried to England. Although the British Red Cross organisation is perfect, the carnage exceeds all expectations. In Rouen, Nantes, Le Mans, and Tours the little British graveyards are trowing daily. The French people are paying their tribute of sympathy in owers and tears.

SIXTY THOUSAND AT COLOGNE COPENHAGEN, Ist October. bixty thousand German wounded have reached Cologne. The Exhibition and other public buildings have been converted into hospitals. Machine guns have been mounted on the Cathedral and the roofs of hotels, lhe public is panicky, fearing air attacks.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

El Paso Herald Oct 2 1914 Japan warns China as it attacks Germany's Chinese colonies Tacoma Times Oct 2 1914 German Count Reventlow slams UK allying itself Japan predicts future race war Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 1 1914 "intense hatred" of Americans, Japanese believe war with USA is inevitable

El Paso Herald Oct 2 1914 Japan warns China to leave its own territory so it can attack Germany's Chinese colonies
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88084272/1914-10-02/ed-1/?sp=1&q=&r=-0.915,0,2.831,1.289,0

The Tacoma Times Oct 2 1914 Count Reventlow German Naval authority slams British allying itself Japan predicts a future war between the races

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88085187/1914-10-02/ed-1/?sp=1&q=&r=-0.155,-0.042,1.372,0.625,0

Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 1 1914
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042242/1914-10-01/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.367,0.356,0.391,0.178,0

"Throughout Japan there is an intense hatred of the American people ... Japanese people believe that war with the United States is inevitable"

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914 publishes this photo, LC-DIG-ggbain-17479, with the caption: "A battlefield after the battle-After the flight of the Germans from the Marne district bodies of their dead were left lying on the fields" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914 publishes this photo with the caption
"A battlefield after the battle-After the flight of the Germans from the Marne district bodies of their dead were left lying on the fields" https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1914-10-01/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.405,0.592,0.573,0.261,0

LC-DIG-ggbain-17479
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dead_German_Between_Villeroy_%26_Neufmontiers_LCCN2014697741.jpg

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sep 30 1918 George Westmoreland takes these photos of the remains of Kadem Station, a terminus of the Hejaz railway and POWs taken during the capture of Damascus. The 3rd photo, IWM Q 12354, seems to have been removed from the IWM website. @mesutuyar.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Q 12371 - "The Battle of Megiddo, September 1918: The remains of Kadem Station, a terminus of the Hejaz railway, which was set on fire by the retreating Germans and Turks, 30th September 1918."
Creator: Westmoreland, George (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-09-30
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195243

IWM Q 12353 - "Capture of Damascus. Some of the prisoners captured in the Barada Gorge by the 3rd and 5th Australian Light Horse Brigade, 30th September 1918."
Creator: Westmoreland, George (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-09-30
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195238

IWM Q 12354 "Capture of Damascus. Some of the prisoners captured in Barada Gorge by the 3rd and 5th Australian Light Horse Brigade, 30th September 1918."
Creator: Westmoreland, George (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-09-30
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247869
https://web.archive.org/web/20160706000858/https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205247869

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1917 An Austro-Hungarian photographer takes this photo of a soldier in a cart pulled by dogs, "Probably Kimplong; Bukovina, on the border to Romania; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 7. – 19170101_PD3066 AKG2627492" Colourized by DB Colour bsky.app/profile/this...

Probably Kimplong; Bukovina, on the border to Romania; photographer: Kriegsvermessung 7. – 19170101_PD3066
AKG2627492
1917-01-01 https://www.akg-images.co.uk/search/AQAAAAAA9v9BS0cyNjI3NDkyAAAAAAAAAQCkFygAAAAAAAAB
Colourized by DB Colour
https://x.com/colour_history/status/1494939480083644417

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sep 20 1917 Official war photographer Ernest Brooks takes this photo, IWM Q 2915, dump of shell-cases, beside the Ypres-Menin road 30 September 1917-09-30 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mar 1919 Canadian photographer William Rider-Rider takes this photo, O-4268, of "1st Cdn Inf. Bn leaving Huy, Belgium, by train for le Havre" What is that flag? The Canadian flag in 1919 didn't appear to have a white background with leaves @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social

William Rider-Rider
1st Cdn Inf. Bn leaving Huy, Belgium, by train for le Havre and 'home'. March 1919
Item no. (creator): O-4268
Item ID number: 3522640
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=3522640&ecopy=a004204-v8
https://vimyfoundation.ca/teach/educator-resources

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/flags-canada-historical/posters.html

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sep 9 1917 Use of dog teams in the staging area Sep 2 1917 Dog column on the Isonzo front 1916 War dog training bsky.app/profile/this...

Verwendung von Hundegespannen im Etappenraum
Datierung
09.09.1917 https://onb.digital/result/112433AB

Hundekolonne an der Isonzofront
Datierung
02.09.1917
https://onb.digital/result/1324647D

Kriegshundetraining
https://onb.digital/result/11207298

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jul 31 1917 Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson was KIA during the Battle of Pilckem Ridge, actions for which he earned the Victoria Cross. The London Gazette published his citation on Sep 4 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riversd...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Photos of Lanchester armoured cars: 1917 photo of one in the Russian Armoured Car Division Photo of Lanchester, 4 x 2, Armoured Car 1916 photo of Austro-Hungarian soldiers with an abandoned British made Lanchester Russian Imperial Army gun shields and the small cupola bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Q 107436 - "A Lanchester armoured car (probably of Lieutenant Ingale) of the Russian Armoured Car Division with a turret hit by a shell, 1917. Note grapnel attached and chains on tyres to facilitate travel through snow." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205350289

IWM MH 9934 - "Lanchester, 4 x 2, Armoured Car (Admiralty turreted pattern)." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205190929

Kriegsalbum 107, Bild 32852
https://onb.digital/result/BAG_15724634

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

LIFE magazine #OTD Sep 30 1915 publishes this George L Carlson illustration of submarine represented as a Viking Ship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_... bsky.app/profile/this...

LIFE magazine #OTD Sep 30 1915 publishes this George L Carlson illustration of submarine represented as a Viking Ship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_L._Carlson

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New-York Tribune #OTD Sep 30 1917 photo of an Italian soldier at the Cima Lana and Pordoi Pass. High in Dolomite Alps many soldiers lost their lives in battles between the armies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy. Col di Lana war memorial chapel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_di_...

New-York Tribune #OTD Sep 30 1917
An Italian Sentinel on Outpost Duty on the Isonzo Front. The Long Contested and Finally Captured Cima Lana and Pordoi Pass
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1917-09-30/ed-1/?sp=1&st=image&r=-0.501,0.664,2.001,0.934,0

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Sep 30 1918 #OTD Near Duncan Post, in the Ronssoy area of France, this photo, AWM E04937, shows a ditched Male Mark V Tank. It was one of a number of tanks disabled by land mines in the fighting. On the top of the tank is the semaphore signaling device bsky.app/profile/this...

A Mark V Male tank at Ronssoy, France. 30 September 1918. One of a number of tanks disabled by land mines in the fighting near Duncan Post, in the Ronssoy area.
AWM E04937
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C55113

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The Library of Congress entry for this photo of a Hotchkiss Automitrailleuse says it was taken #OTD Sep 30 1916 in the Ottoman Empire. However, I've seen others say it is a photo from the period of 1910 before the Balkan Wars. loc.gov/pictures/ite... bsky.app/profile/this...

Title: Armored auto, Turkey
Creator(s): Bain News Service, publisher
Date Created/Published: 9/30/16

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ggbain-04001

Call Number: LC-B2- 816-15 [P&P] LOT 11176
https://loc.gov/pictures/item/2014683995/

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A French boy introducing himself to Indian Army soldiers in Marseilles, France #OTD Sep 30 1914. Published in the British newspaper the Daily Mirror Oct 3 1914. Colourized by @marinamaral.bsky.social britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk//search/resu... bsky.app/profile/this...

A French boy introducing himself to Indian soldiers in Marseilles, France #OTD Sep 30 1914. Picture originally published in the Daily Mirror, Page 1, Oct 3 1914.
Colourized by
https://x.com/marinamaral2/status/693842118775869441

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk//search/results/1914-10-03/1914-10-03?newspaperTitle=Daily%20Mirror
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

NZ's Evening Post Sep 30 1914 reports Canadians to create a French-Canadian Force of 5000 men, the 22nd Regiment aka the Van Doos. "Dr. Nigneault" (probably wealthy Dr Arthur Mignault) gave $50,000 to unit's creation (USD$50,000 in 1914 would be $ 1,600,000 in 2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_2...

ANOTHER EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

MADE UP OF FRENCH-CANADIANS. (Received September 30, 9.10 a.m.) OTTAWA. 29th September. The Government has given its sanction to a. French-Canadian Expeditionary Force of 5000 men. » Dr. Nigneault 'has given fifty thousand dollars towards the expenses. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19140930.2.73#text-tab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_22nd_Regiment#cite_note-10

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=midwestqtrly&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dfield%2520hospital%2520arthur%2520mignault%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D4%26ved%3D0CDsQFjAD%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fdigitalcommons.unl.edu%252Fcgi%252Fviewcontent.cgi%253Farticle%253D1051%2526context%253Dmidwestqtrly%26ei%3DID-UT83LNMmZ6AGtpf2aBA%26usg%3DAFQjCNH7lA0qzaUf4_bnfIEt38JdUJfc4w#search=%22field%20hospital%20arthur%20mignault%22(page

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

NZ Truth Sep 30 1916 Page 8 prints these cartoons of the new developments in World War 1. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/n... bsky.app/profile/this...

NZ Truth Sep 30 1916 Page 8 prints these cartoons of the new developments in World War 1.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/nz-truth/1916/09/30/8

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Corpus Christi Caller and Daily Herald #OTD Sep 29 1914 publish this photo of "British Rapid Fire Gun Drawn by Bicycles ... a machine gun division consisting of rapid guns drawn by bicycles. Three bicyclists draw each but the photograph shows only one" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86088...

Corpus Christi Caller and Daily Herald #OTD Sep 29 1914 publish this photo of "British Rapid Fire Gun Drawn by Bicycles One of the of the British army is a machine gun division consisting of rapid guns drawn by bicycles. Three bicyclists draw each but the photograph shows only one" https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86088527/1914-09-29/ed-1/seq-1/

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Sep 29 1915 publishes this photo of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria reviewing his troops before entering #WWI and has massed 250,000 Bulgar troops are massed on the Serbian frontier chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

NZ's Evening Post #OTD Sep 29 1914 reports on Grimsby trawling fleet, spend months on sea fishing and without radios have no way to contact their home ports. They have no idea #WW1 has started and Navy desperately needs their sailors paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/E... bsky.app/profile/this...

IGNORANT OF THE WAR. There are about 800 boats in the Grimsby trawling fleet, and about half of them are still scattered over the North Sea, ignorant of the fact that Europe is at war. The services of Grhraby fishermen still at sea are needed by the Admiralty. Nearly every trawler carries two or three naval reserve men, and strenuous efforts are being made to get in touch with them. It is necessary that they should return to the H umber or to the nearest port as quickly as possible. The belated news of the European out-Ja-eak is being disseminated over the North Sea by outgoing steamers. Four Scandinavian vessels ventured out to sea at their own risk, and the captains were asked to communicate the news to any trawler they might sight. Fishing and other vessels are being warned not to go out of sight of land or in waters east of the Orkneys, and they are also notified not to sail by night. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19140929.2.71#image-tab

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Sep 29 1918 #OTD During the Battle of St Quentin Canal, David McLellan takes these images of Mark V with 'Crib Fascines' on their roofs. The Cribs were dropped into trenches to help the Tanks pass wide German Trenches IWM Q 9365, IWM Q 9366, IWM Q 9371 bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Q 9366 - "Battle of St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Prisoners with American escort (30th Division) resting in the foreground. In the background, four 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, Mark V Tanks with 'cribs' on their roofs. These were attached to the 5th Australian Division, Fourth Army Front, near Bellicourt, 29th September 1918."
Creator: McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-09-29
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205245123

Colourized by DB Banks
https://twitter.com/colour_history/status/1388028878787170307

IWM Q 9365 - "Battle of the St Quentin Canal (Saint-Quentin). Men of the American 30th Infantry Division at rest with German prisoners following the capture of Bellicourt, 29th September 1918. In the background are British Mark V Tanks with 'cribs' of the 8th Battalion, Tank Corps, which were one of four battalions of the V Tank Brigade allotted to the 5th Australian Division and American Corps for the operation."
Creator: McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-09-29
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205216625

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Aberdeen Herald Sep 29 1914 prints this Wallace Goldsmith cartoon of Uncle Sam reaching a hand across the Atlantic to assist war ravaged Europe. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Sep 29 1918 Between Villeret and Bellicourt, France, Signal Corps photographer Pvt E.J. Peters takes this photo (111-SC-24533) of American photographers going into battle on a British Army Tank. Sgt Mormiss and Pvt Persse. Colourized by @colour_history catalog.archives.gov/id/55208675

Sep 29 1918 On the battlefield between Villeret and Bellicourt, France, Signal Corps photographer Pvt E.J. Peters takes this photo (NAID: 55208675 & Local ID: 111-SC-24533) of American photographers going into battle on a British Army Tank. Sgt. Mormiss and Pvt. Persse. Colourized by @colour_history https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55208675

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Oct 8 1918 #OTD Near Prémont, John Warwick Brooke photos of 20th Bn, Manchester Reg (25th Division) resting by an abandoned Mark V* Tank (s/n 9891) during the Battle of Cambrai. On Sep 29 1918, while under command of Lt Moury, 301st Bn, A Company, the Tank became stuck bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Art.IWM ART 2267
1918
Creator: Adeney, W Bernard
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/65

Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a British Mk V (female) tank serial number 9891 of the 301st Btn, A Coy, disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment on the 29th September. Photo taken near Prémont on 8 October 1918.
© IWM Q 7113)
https://twitter.com/colour_history/status/1314108031051988992

IWM Q 7111 - "Battle of Cambrai. Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. Near Prémont, 8 October 1918."

Creator: Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-10-08
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238960

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This newsreel clip, IWM IWM 508-12, released on May 31 1917, shows the French army laying the cable for a telephone line to the front. bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On Salisbury Plain (also home to Stonehenge) Canadians repairing rifles and unit mascots like Tabbby the cat and Teddy the dog. 1st Canadians arrived in mass on Oct 14 1914 yet IWM says these photos were taken Sep 27 1914. Maybe advance force? @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Q 53262 - "Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, possibly the 1st Canadian Brigade with Teddy, their mascot. Bustard Camp, Salisbury Plain, 27 September 1914."
Production date: 1914-09-27
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205286747

IWM Q 53253 - "Canadian troops repairing rifles and a bicycle on Salisbury Plain on, 27 September 1914."
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205025653
Production date: 1914-09-27

IWM Q 53254 - "A Canadian soldier with 'Tabby' the cat, his unit's mascot, on Salisbury Plain, 27 September 1914."
Production date: 1914-09-27
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205025677

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New York newspaper, The Evening World Oct 16 1914 publishes this photo of a Belgian Minerva Armored Car watching the bombardment of Antwerp, Belgium. Belgium was one of the first to field armoured vehicles in #WW1 Near Ghent, Belgium, William van Calck in Belgian armoured motor car No. 8

New York newspaper, The Evening World #OTD Oct 16 1914 publishes this photo of a Belgian Minerva Armored Car watching the bombardment of Antwerp, Belgium
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1914-10-16/ed-1/seq-1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva_armoured_car

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Minerva_Armored_Car_-_1914_Model.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Belgian_Minerva_armoured_car_and_crew_November_1914_No._8.jpg

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sep 1916 Near Fricourt, France, John Warwick Brooke photo of the Royal Engineers fixing telephone wires on a tree near Fricourt Oct 23 1917 At Heninel, France, John Warwick Brooke photos of South Staffordshire Regiment testing telephone lines with the poles just high enough to form an "air-line."

IWM Q 4137 - "Troops of the Royal Engineers fixing telephone wires on a tree near Fricourt, September 1916."
Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205236574

IWM Q 6246 - "Soldier of the South Staffordshire Regiment testing telephone lines at Heninel, 23 October 1917."
Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-10-23
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238246

IWM Q 6247 - "Soldier of the South Staffordshire Regiment testing telephone lines at Heninel, 23 October 1917. The low poles are just high enough to form an air-line."
Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-10-23
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238247

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The Daily Missoulian Sep 27 1914 Before the war the Germans installed the foundations "of some of their big 42 centimeter guns on a farm under the pretext that they were boring for water. They put in foundations of concrete so that everything was ready." bsky.app/profile/this...

The Daily Missoulian Sep 27 1914
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025316/1914-09-27/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.511,0.772,0.66,0.301,0

London, Sept. 26.-Correspondents telegraphing today from Amsterdam and dating their dispatches from "France," an expedient resulting from the expulsion of the writers from anywhere near the scene of opera- tions, again dwell on the excellent character of the German entrench- ments. It seems that in many places. along the Aisne battlefront stone. quarries dot the hillside, and a ma- jority of these workings have been in German hands for years. It would appear that during several weeks be- fore the opening of hostilities thou- sands of tons of stone were cut from these quarries, later to be used for the construction, by the Germans, of barriers against which the heaviest artillery has little effect.
An Englishman writing from the Maubeuge district reveals some of the remarkable preparations, which he al- leges were made by the Germans for the present war. This man in his let- ter says:
"The Germans installed a long line. before the war certain portions of some of their big 42 centimeter guns on a farm under the pretext that they were boring for water. They put in foundations of concrete so that every- thing was ready. As their guns had a longer range than those of the Mau- beuge forts, it was not difficult for them to conquer."
The Paris correspondent of the London Chronicle confirms the fore-

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Sep 27 1917 #OTD In a trench at Garter Point, Ypres Sector, a Frank Hurley photo, AWM E00825, of the 45th Battalion wearing their gas respirators ('Alert' and 'Alternative Alert' positions of wearing respirator haversack) Colourized by u/linglingjr bsky.app/profile/this...

"Soldiers of the 45th Battalion wearing gas respirators in a trench at Garter Point, in the Ypres Sector. Identified, foreground working back: 2146 Corporal H Davis; 3696 Private (Pte) Thomas J Barrow; 5330 Pte Arthur Benfell. (Note by Sergeant A Brooksbank, Gas NCO, 10th Australian Infantry Brigade: 'Alert' and 'Alternative Alert' positions of wearing respirator haversack of small box respirator of modern practical utility)."
AWM E00825
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E00825

Colourized by u/linglingjr
https://www.reddit.com/r/Colorization/comments/cz4o4t/australian_soldiers_wearing_respirator_gas_masks/

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1/3 🧵Sep 27 1917 #OTD War photographer Frank Hurley photo, AWM E00822, of what he refers to as the Australian “Souvenir King!” Shown is Private John “Barney” Hines. His AIF unit had recently advanced at the Belgian Polygon Wood, in the Ypres Sector. Colourized by DB Banks bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 27 1917 #OTD War photographer Frank Hurley photo, AWM E00822, of what he refers to as the Australian “Souvenir King!” Shown is Private John “Barney” Hines. His AIF unit had recently advanced at the Belgian Polygon Wood, in the Ypres Sector.

https://x.com/colour_history/status/1707994826610704800
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E00822

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

American Samuel Franklin Cody toured Europe as a cowboy. Settling in UK he started developing aircraft and became an aviation pioneer setting a number of flight records in the UK. Photo, IWM RAE-O 235, shows him on Cody Aircraft Mark IC #OTD Sep 27 1909 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Franklin_Cody

IWM (RAE-O 235) https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192169

"A medium close up of Cody wearing thick flying clothing aboard Cody aircraft mark IC (Cathedral - so named because of it's size and the size of the hangar it required and the katahedral (lower at the wing tips) arrangement of the wings) with Mrs. Capper. The most important change made with this mark was moving the pilots seat to in front of the engine. This aircraft was altered several more times, here balancing planes have been added between the wings on the rear outer struts. Particularly with his earlier aircraft Cody made constant adjustments to the arrangement of the flying surfaces, often after crashes, in order to obtain better performance and handling. These changes mean that identifying specific sub-marks of Cody aircraft can at times be very difficult, it should also be remembered that because of this constant evolution of his aircraft Cody would probably not have classified them in such a detailed manner. It was in this aircraft that Cody made the first passenger carrying flight in Britain (Colonel Capper on the 14th August 1909) and several record breaking flights including one cross-country of around forty miles and lasting an hour and three minutes, passing over Aldershot, Camberley, Fleet, Farnham and Farnborough on the 8th September 1909. This was the furthest cross-country flight that had ever been made, anywhere in the world and the longest flight in time and distance in the British Empire. Only six other pilots and four types of machine had flown over forty miles anywhere in the world and all of these were aerodrome circuits not cross-country flights."

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Sep 27 1916 #OTD The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram published this photo of soldiers helping a British ambulance navigate up a muddy road, during the Battle of the Somme. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 27 1916 #OTD The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram published this photo of soldiers helping a British ambulance navigate up a muddy road, during the Battle of the Somme. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86058226/1916-09-27/ed-1/?sp=1&q=

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Sep 27 1915 Captain Fergus Bowes-Lyon of The Black Watch was KIA. He was Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's brother and the uncle of Queen Elizabeth II. The precise location of the grave is still not known. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fergus_... bsky.app/profile/this...

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2 days before 17th birthday John Kipling joins Army after his famous father pulls some strings. Was commissioned as 2nd Lt into 2nd Bn, Irish Guards. Was KIA Sep 27 1915. His father searched in vain for his son's body inspiring him to join Commonwealth War Graves Commission bsky.app/profile/this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling#First_World_War_(1914%E2%80%931918)

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sep 26 1918 Sgt L.C. Morper photo of Section 590 US Ambulance Service (original University of Michigan Ambulance Section) commanded by 1st Lt W.H. Woolverton Photos taken in Argonne and recorded into archive Oct 15 1918, an MP directs traffic crossroads and American infantrymen "mopping up"

SECTION 590 U.S. A. AMBULANCE Service under rush orders to proceed to front for im- mediate service. This is the original University of Michi- gan Ambulance Section which was made up and sent from that Institution in June, 1917. This outfit was with the Ital- ian Army during July and Aug. 1918. 1st.Lt. W. H. Woolverton, U.S. A. A. S., Commanding Officer of Section, is at the head in motorcycle side car. Camp Feid- herbe near Nixeville,Meuse, France.
NAID: 55209151
Local ID: 111-SC-24770
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55209151

NAID: 55204355
Local ID: 111-SC-22328
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THE AMERICAN ADVANCE IN THE ARGONNE REGION, FRANCE.
At a crossroads in the Argonne on a foggy morning. The American military policeman directs the traffic of supply wagons and motor trucks that travel night and day along the high- ways back of the battle lines."
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55204355

NAID: 55204383
Local ID: 111-SC-22342
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THE AMERICAN ADVANCE IN THE ARGONNE REGION, FRANCE.
American infantrymen "mopping up" ground recently captured from the Germans in the Forest of Argonne, pause for a rest among the shattered stumps of what was once a beautiful grove, area"
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55204383

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sep 25 1918 Near Vadeliancourt Dept, Meuse, France, SRC, 1st Lt R.W. Sears photo of 349-350th Co. 17th Bat of 506th Reg of "French Assault Artillery Tanks" actually Renault FT Tanks on train. Sep 26 1918 SC photographer Lt A.C Duff photo of Tanks entering the Argonne Forest bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

US Logistics. General Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces, complimented the Service of Supply (SOS) for supplying front lines. In Sep 1918 American ports overseas handled 767,648 tons of war materiel, with 1 port handling 271,796 tons and a daily average of 25,588 tons

THE S.0.S. SHARES HONORS WITH THE LINE.
A great stack of tires for motor trucks unloaded on the docks of a base port in France. During the month of Sept., 1918, the American ports overseas handled 767,648 tons of supplies.
General Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces complimented the Service of Supply for its efficient work.
NAID: 55204344
Local ID: 111-SC-22323
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55204344

THE 8.0.S. SHARES HONORS WITH THE LINE.
Docks in an American base port in France which during the month of Sept. 1918, handled 271,796 tons of supplies. The American overseas ports handled a daily average in Sept. of 25,588 tons.
General Pershing, Commander in Chief of the American Ex- peditionary Forces complimented the Service of Supply for its efficient work.
NAID: 55204346
Local ID: 111-SC-22324
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55204346

NAID: 55204352
Local ID: 111-SC-22327
THE S.0.S. SHARES HONORS WITH THE LINE.
A telegram from the Commander in Chief of the American Ex- peditionary Forces to Major General James G. Harbord, commanding the Service of Supplies, reads:
"I want the officers and men of the 8.0.S. under your command to know how much the First Army appreciates the prompt response made to every demand for men, equipment, supplies and transportation necessary to carry out the recent operations. Please extend to all our hearty congratulations and say that they share the success with us. Pershing."
Part of a day's production of freight and tank cars in a.S. Army assembling shop
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55204352

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sep 26 1918 In Baleycourt Woods, near Nixeville, France, SRC 1st Lt R.W. Sears and Sgt L.C. Morper take photos of 340mm (14in) railway guns manned by US Coast Artillery men and commanded by Major G. F. Humbert, C. A. C. They are targeting two German Army Corps Headquarters thirty kilometers away

NAID: 55209113
Local ID: 111-SC-24751

Front view of 340 M. M. Gun, which is equivalent to the American 13.9 inch, showing gun lowered under protection of it's camouflaged shelter. This gun is known as a mobile railroad gun and is ordinarily manned by 22 men, but in the drive it was manned by 122 men, working in co-operation with the aeroplane observation. It's target was the Hdqrs. of two German Army Corps located near a railhead thirty kilometers away. The aero observer reported four hits from four shots fired. Baley-court,Dept.,Meuse, France.
3:30 P.M. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55209113

NAID: 55209117
Local ID: 111-SC-24753

FIRING OF THE 340 MM GUN. This gun is known as a mobile railroad gun and ordinarily is manned by 22 men, but in the drive it was manned by 122 men, working in cooperation with aeroplane observation. It's target was the Hdqrs. of two Ger- man Army Corps located near a railhead thirty kilometers away. The aero observer re- ported four hits from four shots fired. Baleycourt, Dept. Meuse, France. 3:30 PM.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55209117

NAID: 55209157
Local ID: 111-SC-24773

FRENCH 340 M. M. GUN, WHICH IS the equivalent of the Ameri- can 13.9 inch caught at the moment of firing at two German Army Corps Headquarters thirty kilometers away. The gun is manned by American Coast Artillery men and commanded by Major G. F. Humbert, C. A. C. Baleycourt Woods, near Nixeville, Meuse,France.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55209157

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