HUGH DANCY as Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett 2015 · Deadline Gallipoli · S1·EP1 · dir. Michael Rymer

"Died for France on 29 April, 1916." Monastery de Cimiez Cemetery, in Nice, France.

All Quiet on the Western Front doodles

Naval Air Factory N-1 floatplane, A2282, conducting a test run from the Philadelphia Naval Aircraft Factory, on May 24, 1918.

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Can you imagine leaving home (yes, it was a foster family placement, but it was still technically ‘home’) at 14 years old to volunteer in the Great War as a war correspondent and traveling all the way to Belgium, one of the worst-hit countries during the First World War? And then remaining there for years, completely on your own, suffering from extreme hunger and poverty while working as a journalist and starting out as a stage actor?

Well, Gustav did all of that. All I can say is that though I do realize that times were different back then and people grew up a lot quicker, it must have really taken balls of steel.

Here is an extremely rare photo of Gustav in 1916 in Bruxelles, wearing his volunteer uniform. Unfortunately I don’t know who the older guy is, a brother in arms I guess - but look at that smile… it was already there.

14, on your own since childhood and at war. Wow.

HMHS Britannic being maneuvered by tugboats.

Painting by Harley Crossley, 1987.

National Museums of Northern Ireland: M11983

American airmen of the Lafayette Escadrille pose with their lion cub mascots, Whiskey and Soda. Eugene Bullard, wearing a beret fourth from the left on the back row, was the first African-American combat pilot in history. Circa 1917.

C. R. W. Nevinson

Pursuing a Taube

1915

A-M-E-R-I-C-A Means I Love You, My Yankee Land (1917)

Two sides of the same coin - angry, wronged and aching for change - tossed up in some sort of gamble against the bloodiest odds.

Men like you are an uncomfortable reminder that peace is fragile, temporary, that even in the best of times, prosperity must be protected by men with guns.

-To the Last Man by Jeff Shaara

Actually Franz Ferdinand was neurodivergent and Princip was a minor so it cancels out

WWI era armored cars. Seeing these things and imagining going to war in them is just unbelievable! But they did some good work in the dessert with fast hit and run tactics. Lawrence of Arabia especially gave the Turks headaches with a few Rolls Royce armored cars.

The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool (and other stories of knitting in wartime)

An American Red Cross knitting class during World War One. NATIONAL ARCHIVES/20802186

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them."

Photo by Philippe C Photographie,

"Here's a little visual that helps show not only the national, but worldwide importance of Battleship Texas. From 1906 until 1922, there were about 125 battleships built around the globe that met the definition of dreadnought during what could be called the dreadnought period. All but one were sunk in combat, scrapped or sunk as targets. Only Texas survives as a representative of this remarkable period."

Posted by Tom Scott on the Battleship Texas Foundation Group Facebook page: link