Artillery soldiers, known as ‘gunners ... It also blockaded the ports of enemy countries to stop supplies getting in. World War One saw only one really big sea battle, the Battle of Jutland ...
He lived through World War Two watching one of his daughters ... on the seated row - with his comrades of the Royal Garrison Artillery The house stayed in the family and Mrs Withey recalls ...
Russia’s military is employing World War One-style tactics, involving relentless human wave attacks and heavy artillery, to ...
The bomb was found when a marina worker was dredging the water An unexploded World War One artillery shell has been found in a river by a marina worker. James Wilkinson, who works at Newark Marina ...
American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war ... world, possessing a cavalry force of fifty thousand and using horses to pull the ...
At the outbreak of the Great War on 4 August 1914, the unit was made up of 421 men with 22 officers. During 1914, while the unit saw no active combat, there were still two servicemen who died while in ...
The First Battle of Ypres - one of five - the previous October ... targets in German-held territory. The First World War was marked by gruelling artillery battles, and the struggles around Ypres ...