Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World ...
On 10 March 1928, Edwin Albert Ernest Brown married Mildred Celia Andrews, from then known as Mildred Celia Brown (1879-1968). Edwin Albert Ernest Brown died on 19 December 1967 at Sydney, New South ...
Back in the final months of the First World War in 1918 and again the following year officers in the Metropolitan Police went ...
Despite its heroic stand, not one member of the 3rd Division was awarded the Medal of Honor throughout World War I, but that ...
With the devastating 1918 pandemic in mind, US health officials saw an outbreak in Asia and swung into action. What happened ...
Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher ...
The Winnipeg Free Press installed a three-tone steam whistle atop its Carlton Street building in 1917 that was said to be ...
Since Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross in 1856, five American-born men have received Britain’s highest military award for valor.
An Oscar nominee for best international feature, Denmark’s harrowing, slow-boil thriller “The Girl With the Needle” has been ...
In 1918 and 1919, after World War I, the first recorded Rose Parade themes were ‘Patriotism’ followed by ‘Victory.’ ...
We humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so naturally, certain things have slipped through the cracks ...