During the recovery of bodies following the Battle of Marne in France in 1914, his pipes were accidentally set off, alerting ...

The Rockport Police Department, alongside the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and Rockport Fire Department, responded ...

During construction at Pearson Airfield, an archeologist found what could be unexploded Stokes Mortars dating back to World War 1. The Vancouver Police Mobile Explosive Device Unit worked with the U.S ...

If you're not sure what the last line means, you're not alone. WW1 gave rise to a number of slang and colloquial expressions such as these, but some lasted longer than others. Another word which ...

WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? Despite the thousands of deaths attributed to the use of the machine-gun in WW1, did its awesome threat actually ...

Thanks for that. Ian McMillan reads and analyses Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est, and asks: do we misunderstand WW1 because we focus on poems like Owen's? WW1: Why was the first day of ...

Travel in the Highlands was severely restricted during WW1 and anyone wishing to do so had to apply for a special pass.The Highlands were seen as strategically important during the First World War.