Connie Ruzich

“A Few Lines” Company Sergeant Major Richardson wrote a letter home on 12 January 1916 from the relative safety of La Clytte[i], Belgium (now known as De Klijte), which was a camp used as a Divisional Reserve fo…

A letter home shares some news at the front. Cigarettes. Sausages. And death. In a letter home to a friend.

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To the Unknown British Soldier in France

To the Unknown British Soldier in France https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-orpen/to-the-unknown-british-soldier-in-france-1921

Registration is open!! Do come to PEI this June! lmmontgomery.ca/upcoming-con...

Good to see you😍

Fierce Fighting in a Wood Percy Smith, Solitude High Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Delville Wood, Polygon Wood, Belleau Wood – these are some of the best-known sites of the f...

It's been too long -- but new post is up "Fierce Fighting in a Wood." behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2026/03/fier... #FWW #poetry #WW1

Eastern Front Austrians on the Eastern Front, Library of Congress In his history of the First World War, Winston Churchill titled his account of the ...

Wonderful to see Georg Trakl.

Here is his poem "Eastern Front": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2017/01/east...

110 years ago, my great-grandfather sent this home.

“It’s cold. And when we are in the trenches, outside at night, it will be even worse. We leave for 8 days. On our right, at Verdun, it has been non-stop.

I’m sending you a photo 👇 it will be a memory for me after the war.

#WW1 #OnThisDay

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Poetry by an 18th Battalion CEF soldier to a VAD nurse.

black and white photo woman on motorcycle, dog in foreground.

Mairi Chisholm born #OTD 26 February 1896, famous with Elsie Knocker for treating wounded in the front line 1914-18, seen in 1913, age 17, London to Exeter motorcycle run. They met before the war during motorcycle events & went to the front as ambulance drivers. Source: Hulton via Ancestry.co.uk

The Jewish YMCA Dr Kathryn White follows the life and work of Harold Boas from Perth to London

The remarkable story of the YMCA’s Jewish service in the First World War, now on my Substack:

Check my blog! Lots of examples (or my edited anthology!)

Thanks, Tony. I've had to take a break due to family health issues, but I hope to be back when things are easier.

Chicago Tribune #OTD Feb 23 "show the various devices used for overcoming barbed wire entanglements ... The allies are using a small cannon for firing a drag anchor hitched to a cable, over the wire entanglements. This is then dragged through the entanglements by a windlass.
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Remember, even if someone is technically correct when they assert that a bookshelf with a rolling ladder “won’t fix you”, they are forgetting one simple, unassailable truth:

It certainly can’t hurt.

War memorial plaque commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War.

War memorial plaque. St. Nicolas Church, Kings Norton, Birmingham, West Midlands. Commemorating the employees of the Kings Norton Metal Works who gave their lives in the Great War. #LestWeForget

For King and Country This book is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and the limitations of wartime mobilisation in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front…

My new book "For King and Country: The Role of Patriotism in Mobilisation in the First World War" is available now @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
'A fascinating read' Professor Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social author of Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness

That's wonderful!

Valentine's Day 💕

How many soldiers died & left a family bereaved on that day?

626 French soldiers died on 14th Feb from 1915-1918

338 - 1915
134 - 1916
90 - 1917
64 - 1918

How many 315e? 2
Below 🧵on one, warning he was no sweetheart

Eugene Albaud: Fusillé pour l'exemple

Love the #DorothyParker reference ;)

A Kiss 1916 postcard Known as the “Canadian Rupert Brooke,” Bernard Freeman Trotter was a twenty-five-year-old graduate student at the Univers...

A charming love poem from the First World War: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-ki... #ValentinesDay #FWW #poetry #lovepoem

Sarojini Naidu

Remembering Sarojini Naidu, a "lyrical voice of women's empowerment," political activist, and poet, born 13 Feb 1879. Here is her #FWW poem "The Gift of India": behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-... #poetry

I sooo feel this right now. What names are these? What claims are these? What does it all mean? (cue maniacal laughter). All I remember is that this was going to be One of the Best Things I Have Written 🤪

Other Events As well as running its own conferences every couple of years, the MWHN also encourages and supports its Members in coming together to participate in panels at other academic events around the world…

#CFP for 'The Military Medicine and Welfare of the First World War: preparations, evolutions and legacies' symposium, 10-11 April 2025. Submit your abstracts and bios to the organisers at militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com by Friday 14 February 2025. militarywelfarehistory.com/other-events/.

Ranging far beyond the traditional canon

Most definitely

International Poetry of the First World War Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

30% off INTERNATIONAL POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (40% off ebook) on Bloomsbury's website. Sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16. www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

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International Poetry of the First World War Ranging far beyond the traditional canon, this ground-breaking anthology casts a vivid new light on poetic responses to the First World War. Bringing together p…

And this #FWW poetry collection is 30% off -- 40% off the ebook (sale ends Sunday, Feb. 16): www.bloomsbury.com/us/internati...

12th or 13th century jug decorated with a comical anxious face. Winchester City Museums.

I absolutely love and empathise with this medieval jug, spotted in Winchester City #Museum

Todya's badge - a rare one for the Better 'Ole soldiers social club in Paris. The badge date must be post-1915 as the famous Bairnsfather "Better 'Ole" cartoon wasn't published till late 1915. In all the years I have been collecting, this is the only example of this I have seen #WW1 #FWW

War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire.

War memorial tablet. St. Mary's Church, Kings Worthy, Hampshire. Commemorating four sons of the Reverend Francis Henry Baring, who all fell in the Great War. Ernest and Charles (Australian Imperial Force), Cecil (Royal West Kent Regiment) and Reginald (Royal Air Force). #LestWeForget