Latest posts tagged with #WesternFront on Bluesky
#PicOfTheDay The beautiful #Indian
@cwgc.bsky.social Memorial at #NeuveChapelle #PasDeCalais. The memorial Commemorates all 4653 Indian men who fell on the #WesternFront in WW1. It is located where the Indian Corps fought as a single unit for the first time in a major battle 111 years ago today.
โCanadians Repairing a Track Under Shellfireโ by Innes Meo, 1919, #CanadianWarMuseum.
The artist served as a subaltern on the #WesternFront in the #GreatWar. He left us this piece showing the routine labour of the trenches in combat. Of course, there was nothing routine about it. #fwwhist #CEF #BEF
โSunday Morning at Cunelโ by Harvey Dunn, 1918, #NMAH. This vivid piece shows soldiers of the 5th Division, #AEF, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918. In this battle, US forces incurred some of their heaviest losses of the #GreatWar.
#fww #fwwhist #USArmy #WesternFront #combatart
โYpres Salient at Nightโ by Paul Nash, 1918, #IWMCollection.
In night combat, the landscape is often lit by the weird, eerie light of star shells and flares. The artist captured this atmosphere perfectly in the painting.
#BEF #FWW #FWWHIST #WesternFront #WWI #WW1 #trenches
Map of the Western Front (1914โ1918) showing trench lines, key battles, and German advances across France and Belgium.
The #WesternFront (1914โ1918) was the central and most industrialized theater of the #FirstWorldWar, emerging from #Germanyโs initial invasion of #Belgium and northern #France in August 1914 under Kaiser Wilhelm II (reign 1888โ1918). #WWI #History ๐บ๏ธ by Simeon Netchev.
"Oh Lordy, theyโve got us bracketed" by John W. Thomason, 1918, #USMC Art Collection.
This was a scene familiar to nearly soldier and Marine who served in combat during the #GreatWar.
#fww #fwwhist #AEF #WesternFront #Marines #DevilDogs
Poison Wind: Canada and the First Gas Attack memoryandvalour.ca/2026/01/22/p... #memoryandvalour #ww1 ##ww1history #westernfront #lestweforget #ypres #booksky #CanadianHistory
Iโm reading the 1921 1916-18 history of 1st Bn Somerset Light Inf. This is the page about their at on the Somme on 1 July 1916. The last complete paragraph is especially poignant.
#fww #fwwhist #Somme #forlornhope #GreatWar #WesternFront
Walking the old battlefields often reveals quieter stories.
This one begins at Beaumont-Hamel with a shattered church window and ends with reconciliation decades later.
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Battle Guide has just dropped an analysis of a single grid square on the #Somme. The focus of the story is how many bodies were recovered there by graves registration teams after the Great War. To me, this is a must-watch story for those interested in the #FirstWorldWar.
#fww #WesternFront #fwwhist
Showery day. Went to Bailleul
to buy stores for a Company
supper. Everybody merry.
Pipes etc at 12pm.
End of 1915
Hogmanay for the #LiverpoolScottish 100 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront
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Fine day. Fatigue at QM stores.
Tea in village. Pictures in evening.
Barn [?] decorated.
110 years ago, on the 1915 #WesternFront the #LiverpoolScottish were gearing up for Hogmanay georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/3...
Good cushie dugout (F25) in
reserve to guard. Very quiet.
Tremendous letter mail at night.
First since we came up here.
More on the Xmas postal service on the #WesternFront in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/2...
Cold but fine. Very little doing
except Belgian Artillery Observer
sassey. Bit of argument. He forgot
password. Three whizbangs hit
barricade. Relieved.
More on life on the 1915 #WWI #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/26/2...
Violent #nationalism held less sway over the common soldiery in #WWI, seen later in mass desertions but early on in the #ChristmasTruce, which began #ThisDayInHistory in 1914 when soldiers across the #WesternFront defied commanders to play #football, exchange food, & sing carols.
The #Caucasus Campaign of #WWI was brutal as the #WesternFront for the #Ottoman & #Russian forces involved. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1914, Ottoman forces in the #BattleOfSarikamish blundered badly, opening fire on their own troops, killing 2,000. Russian troops were more prepared.
My annual Christmas greeting to you all. The Christmas Day Truce. The text is here:
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#WWI #ChristmasDayTruce #History #Skystorians #WesternFront #GreatWar #TrenchWarfare @westernfrontww1.bsky.social @greatwarhuts.bsky.social @jich.bsky.social ๐ ๐
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#BattleOfTheBulge #WorldWarII #WesternFront #GermanOffensive #MilitaryHistory
Reported at the Grenade School
for week's course. Fine but cold.
For more on the #LiverpoolScottish, #trenchfoot and #physiotherapy 110 years ago on the 1915 #WWI #WesternFront see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/1...
Fatigue on Officersโ dugout in morning.
Moved down to Rest Billets. Showery.
More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/1...
Fine dugout. Showery. Fatigue in morning in R5. Few shrapnels over trench. Fatigue up to T1. Fell up to the waist in peasoupy mud
More on life on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/1...
"A Star Shell" by CRW Nevinson, 1916, #CanadianWarMuseum. Few sights on the battlefield are as weird as a flare bursting in the night sky. This cubist work illustrates the eerie nature of a star shell burning above the trenches. #fwwhist #GreatWar #WesternFront
Awakened in morning to find dugout flooded & wet up to waist. Huns shell our trenches severely. Moved down to R5.
More on the #LiverpoolScottish on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/1...
Look out for a new post this week where I share all the details and photos of my summer trip to the Western Front including all the cemeteries and museums that I visited #Genealogy #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WesternFront
Showery. Artillery very active.
Fatigues. Move up to T1 in evening.
Same spot as last time.
Life in the December trenches continued to be wet and miserable for the #Liverpool Scottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/8...
Showery. Heavy shelling. Fatigue
up com trench. Dugouts sodden.
More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/7...
"Gas Attack, Lievin" by Alexander Young Jackson, 1918, Canadian War Museum.
This is a sobering and stark painting. As SOS flares arc into the sky, a cloud of poison gas blossoms over the front line trenches on the #WesternFront. #fwwhist #GreatWar #CBRN #NBC #chemicals
Passchendaele duckwalk track, 29 Oct 1917, as visualised by the talented photographer Frank Hurley. You can just make out some Australian soldiers on the right of this photo. They were truly walking in hell.
#Flanders #WesternFront #GreatWar #fwwhist #AEF #Passchendaele #BritishArmy
We feed in [?] shacks at
Reninghelst. 18 [?] camp.
Very wet all day.
More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on this day on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/3...
Very wet. Relieved by LRBs.
Sergt. Major Belcher V.C.
in charge. No wash for 7 days.
Very badly in need of shave.
Long weary march.
More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/2...
