Remembering WWI through interesting events that happened OTD during WWI.
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Jun 1916 In Trocadero, Paris, Jacques Moreau photo, LRS194167, of a Tonkinese Soldier of the French colonial army on sentry duty near a Radio station. Tonkin in the Red River Delta of what was part of French Indochina now in Northern Vietnam. Colourized by Frédéric Duriez. bsky.app/profile/this...
Jun 13 1918 John Warwick Brooke takes these photos of mine buildings at Calonne damaged by shell fire, ruins in Arras with the cathedral visible in the background and a gas sentry of the 20th Division in the ruins of Lievin
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Jun 16 1917 At the regiment's depot at Satwari, Jammu, India, Indian officers of the 2nd Kashmir Rifles. Photo shows a German flag and and machine gun captured in the Action at Lukigura River on Jun 24 1916 in German East Africa
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Jun 12 1917 At Leuilly-sous-Coucy, France, a French photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 78452, of a Malagasy soldier with their rations of bread
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Jun 13 1919 Stars and Stripes prints last edition. Was published by American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) from #OTD Feb 8 1918, to Jun 13 1919. 1st printed during the American Civil War when Illinois soldiers found an abandoned printing press
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This 1917 newsreel clip, IWM IWM 130-07-+8, shows a motor machine gun section move out of its camp, "in its cycle combinations"
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Jun 12 1917 Near Dranouter, Belgium, John Warwick Brooke takes these photos of men in support near Wytschaete, the Reverend John Redmond, a chaplain, holding a dog and Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers with their trophies after the capture of Wytschaete, 36th (Ulster) Division
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June 13, 1926: A Maserati from the newly formed Italian automobile manufacturing company, one of the entrants in the "Flying Kilometer" race in Bologna.
June 13, 1926: A renowned Italian-British musician drops dead of a "nervous paroxysm" in Coney Island that is blamed on jazz. Nicola Coviello, 79, hears the din of a jazz band and grumbles, "That is not music," before collapsing. He ran a London music school and played cornet before Queen Victoria.
June 13, 1926: The dedication of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's memorial at Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery for Communists who were killed in uprisings that followed the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918. Party chief Ernst Thälmann delivers a speech.
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Le Petit Journal Feb 11 1917
Annamites (Peoples from what is now Vietnam ) theatre entertain the troops
Le Petit Journal #OTD Aug 27 1916
A Vietnamese hairdresser serving on the Western Front
IWM Q 102976 - Vietnamese troops parading for ceremonial investiture
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Mansfield, Missouri newspaper the Mansfield Mirror Jan 30 1919 prints this cartoon showing Uncle Sam welcoming refugees from Syria and Armenia, "Another Job for Uncle Sam" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066...
May 30 1917 Around Soissons, France, Fernand Cuville takes these autochrome photos 109 years ago in their original colour. They show the ruins Cathedral of Saints Gervasius and Protasius bsky.app/profile/this...
Queen Ranavalona III dies on May 23 1917. She was one of last vestiges of Kingdom of Madagascar, a pre-colonial state, on what is now the island nation of Madagascar. When France took over the region it exiled the Queen first to Réunion and then Algeria en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranaval...
The War Illustrated, Dec 25 1915, p.443
The War Illustrated "Home stirred and stirring thoughts of home"
Jun 12 1918 #OTD War photographer David McLellan takes these photos of inspection, by General Henry Horne, of 24th Motor Machine Gun Battalion. Bikes are Clyno 744 cc twin-cylinder motorcycles with sidecar and Vickers Machine Gun
IWM Q 10323, IWM Q 10328, IWM Q 10326
Aerial view of Kut-al-Amarah, Ottoman Empire. Feb 24 1917 After retaking city, Indian lancers riding through streets and interrogating Ottoman officers. Historian Christopher Catherwood called the 1916 Siege of Kut the "worst defeat of the Allies in" #WW1 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_o...
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This newsreel clip, IWM NTB 272-2, released Nov 11 1916 showing the allies fighting Central Powers in Greece. Walking by the camera are Anammite (Central Vietnam), French Colonial, British, French Colonial Zouave, Italian, Serbian, French, Cretan, India, Montenegrin, and finally Russian.
1/3 🧵May 11 1920, In Albert, France, Frédéric Gadmer takes these autochrome photos in their original colour 106 years ago. The pictures show the city's Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Brebières. During #WW1 German bombardment reduced it to ruins en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilic...
