Beds, Herts & Bucks 21 July 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with WhatsApp Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-44807882 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel Related TopicsWorld War One A commemorative event is being planned to honour and remember 21 police … [Read more...] about ‘Sacrifice’ of police who served in WW1
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Grisly WW1 snap captures Brit Tommies standing around imprint of German pilot who’d fallen from the sky
THE grisly image of a body-shaped imprint in the ground from where a German airmen fell out of the sky has emerged in a new collection of eye-opening WW1 slides. The grim photograph shows a group of British Tommies looking down at the impression left in the grass after he fell from the sky. A caption underneath the black and white image states that the dead German was a commander of a Zeppelin airship that had come under attack while it flew over Billericay, Essex, in 1916. It is one of over 100 stereoscopic slides documenting the mud-soaked misery of life — and death — on the Western front that have now come to light 100 years on. Other remarkable images show soldiers in the heat of battle, with one Tommy holding a captured German machine gunner at bayonet-point. Others show a shot British officer being carried out of the trenches by stretcher and a troop of brave soldiers going "over the top" and charging at the enemy positions. There is also an image of a crashed biplane … [Read more...] about Grisly WW1 snap captures Brit Tommies standing around imprint of German pilot who’d fallen from the sky
Brit heroes among bodies of 125 WW1 soldiers found entombed in German trench 101 years after they were killed
SKELETONS of 125 World War One soldiers have been found entombed in an perfectly preserved battlefield 101 years after they fell in combat, it emerged today. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of the troops, their weapons and even their toothbrushes and bottles of HP sauce in an elaborate web of trenches in a village near the city Ypres in Flanders. The complex network of fighting and communication trenches was first uncovered in 2015 by archaeologists brought in to examine a field due to be built on as part of a housing development. Now after painstaking work on the site in Wijtschate, the horrors that unfolded on an area the size of two football pitches has been laid bare. Most of the men, who were German, British, French and South African, were found where they fell during some of the most ferocious fighting of the war. Other skeletal remains were buried in mass graves alongside religious artefacts placed there by their comrades. Experts believe about 100 of the dead are German. … [Read more...] about Brit heroes among bodies of 125 WW1 soldiers found entombed in German trench 101 years after they were killed
WW1 sand statues ‘mindlessly’ vandalised
Tees 12 July 2018 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with WhatsApp Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-44811733 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel Related TopicsWorld War One Sand sculptures commemorating World War One have been vandalised.Heads and faces have been knocked off … [Read more...] about WW1 sand statues ‘mindlessly’ vandalised
Chatteris bus stop painted to mark 100th centenary of the end of WW1
Young people from the Chatteris Royal British Legion, along with their leaders, have re-painted a bus stop in the town to mark the 100th centenary of the end of the Great War. Picture: Submitted Submitted Young members of the Royal British Legion in Chatteris, along with their adult leaders, have re-painted a bus stop in the town to commemorate the end of the First World War. Young people from the Chatteris Royal British Legion, along with their leaders, have re-painted a bus stop in the town to mark the 100th centenary of the end of the Great War. Picture: Submitted Leaders Becky Cooper and David Seal helped the youngsters paint 160 crosses to mark the men from Chatteris who died during the Great War, including one soldier who is missing from the town’s war memorial. Becky said: “The design idea for this years bus stop was inspired by the Chatteris Remembers WWI project by Nicky Stockman, Gordon Phillips and Kingsfield School along with the youth’s depiction … [Read more...] about Chatteris bus stop painted to mark 100th centenary of the end of WW1