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#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.

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โ€œCanadians 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

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โ€˜Sunday 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

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โ€œYpres 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

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Map of the Western Front (1914โ€“1918) showing trench lines, key battles, and German advances across France and Belgium.

Map of the Western Front (1914โ€“1918) showing trench lines, key battles, and German advances across France and Belgium.

The #WesternFront (1914โ€“1918) was the central and most industrialized theater of the #FirstWorldWar, emerging from #Germanyโ€™s initial invasion of #Belgium and northern #France in August 1914 under Kaiser Wilhelm II (reign 1888โ€“1918). #WWI #History ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ by Simeon Netchev.

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"Oh Lordy, theyโ€™ve 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

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Poison Wind: Canada and the First Gas Attack When the air turned poisonous the Canadians didnโ€™t retreat; they stood and fought.This episode dives into the first poison-gas attack at Ypres and the brutal legacy it left behind. From the sโ€ฆ

Poison Wind: Canada and the First Gas Attack memoryandvalour.ca/2026/01/22/p... #memoryandvalour #ww1 ##ww1history #westernfront #lestweforget #ypres #booksky #CanadianHistory

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Iโ€™m 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

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Beaumont-Hamel: A Fragment Returned During a visit to the Western Front in the summer of 2025, I was told a story that has stayed with me ever since. It was not a story of sweeping offensives or celebrated generals, nor one that fitsโ€ฆ

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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๐Ÿ”— #WW1 #FamilyHistory #WesternFront

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Four Years of War In One Field - WW1 Documentary
Four Years of War In One Field - WW1 Documentary YouTube video by Battle Guide

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

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31 December 1915 Showery day. Went to Bailleul to buy stores for a Company supper. Everybody merry. Pipes etc at 12pm. End of 1915 Commentary George ended his 1915 diary eating a Company supper, while the pipe bandโ€ฆ

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
georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/3...

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30 December 1915 Fine day. Fatigue at QM stores. Tea in village. Pictures in evening. Barn [?] decorated. CommentaryAfter a Christmas Day when no cards or presents had been received through the mail, the Liverpool โ€ฆ

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...

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27 December 1915 Good cushie dugout (F25) in reserve to guard. Very quiet. Tremendous letter mail at night. First since we came up here. Commentary The British Film Insitute has a one-minute 1915 newsreel of parcelโ€ฆ

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...

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26 December 1915 Cold but fine. Very little doing except Belgian Artillery Observer sassey. Bit of argument. He forgot password. Three whizbangs hit barricade. Relieved. Commentary An artillery observer would, typiโ€ฆ

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...

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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.

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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.

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#christmas #christmasdaytruce #gordonhighlanders #wwi #wwii | Steve Murdoch My annual Christmas card to you all: Christmas Day 1914. This was painted by my grandfather Charles Murdoch (age 21) while serving in France in H Company (Huntly), 6th Gordon Highlanders (7th Highlan...

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 ๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ—ƒ

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#ะ‘ะธั‚ะฒะฐะ—ะฐะั€ะดะตะฝะฝะธ #ะ”ั€ัƒะณะฐะกะฒั–ั‚ะพะฒะฐะ’ั–ะนะฝะฐ #ะ—ะฐั…ั–ะดะฝะธะนะคั€ะพะฝั‚ #ะšะพะฝั‚ั€ะฝะฐัั‚ัƒะฟะ’ะตั€ะผะฐั…ั‚ัƒ #ะ’ั–ะนััŒะบะพะฒะฐะ†ัั‚ะพั€ั–ั
#BattleOfTheBulge #WorldWarII #WesternFront #GermanOffensive #MilitaryHistory

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13 December 1915 Reported at the Grenade School for weekโ€™s course. Fine but cold. Commentary From the Battalion Diary On the night of Monday the 13th the Battn was relieved by the London Rifle Brigade. The reโ€ฆ

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...

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12 December 1915 Fatigue on Officersโ€™ dugout in morning. Moved down to Rest Billets. Showery. First Attack at Bellewaarde, Hooge, 16 June 1915Too many Liverpool Scottish soldiers died on 16 June to do them juโ€ฆ

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...

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11 December 1915 Fine dugout. Showery. Fatigue in morning in R5. Few shrapnels over trench. Fatigue up to T1. Fell up to the waist in peasoupy mud. Commentary From the Battalion Diary During the Tour three represenโ€ฆ

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...

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"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

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10 December 1915 Awakened in morning to find dugout flooded & wet up to waist. Huns shell our trenches severely. Moved down to R5. Commentary From the Battalion Diary. The enemy was quiet on the whole, and therโ€ฆ

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...

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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

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8 December 1915 Showery. Artillery very active. Fatigues. Move up to T1 in evening. Same spot as last time. Commentary While George was getting soaked in the trenches, newspapers in the UK were marking the end of โ€ฆ

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...

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7 December 1915 Showery. Heavy shelling. Fatigue up com trench. Dugouts sodden. Commentary From the Battalion Diary:The rain continued throughout the week in the line, and constant work both by night and by day waโ€ฆ

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...

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"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

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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

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30 November 1915 We feed in [?] shacks at Reninghelst. 18 [?] camp. Very wet all day. Commentary From the Battalion Diary: The following day [i.e. 30 November] a boot, sock + foot inspection was held, + the men&#82โ€ฆ

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...

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29 November 1915 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. Commentary An end to the temporary truce for the Liverpool Scottiโ€ฆ

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...

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