#31DaysOfGraves #Day1Flower Grave of Dvr John C A Taylor in Oulx Cemetery, Italy; he died in a tragic train accident on his way home in 1918 A local lady has regularly tended his grave with flowers Read more about him here & in the Book of Remembrance: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

Hello Dave, how exciting for you! Do let me know if you discover anything new - my Khan al-Shilan research is still on our website: awayfromthewesternfront.org/archive/khan...

11 September Lt Archibald William Robertson Don of the 10th Bn Black Watch died of Maleria and he was buried in Salonika. Archibald had intended to train in Medicine after graduating Trinity College, Cambridge but war intervened #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

107 yrs ago Horatio Ellis Evans killed in Salonika, Greece. He was treated at the Hospital in 1916 & awarded the Military Medal. On recovering, re-posted overseas & killed in action - 17th September 1918 Thank you Jan for the research #firstworldwar #WeWillNeverForget #militaryhospital

A heads up for the next issue of the BJMH! To be published online next Tuesday, 26 August this is a regular issue with topics from the American Revolution to Normandy in 1944 via East Africa in the FWW. As always, Open Access and free to all at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/

Waiting off Gallipoli Sgt Richard Ward wrote in his diary on 25 April 1915: “This I have no doubt will be the greatest day of our lives.” Once landed Pte Joseph McBride pulled out his Kodak and snapped the first New Zealanders coming ashore. They knew they were making history. #Gallipoli110 #ANZAC

It is serious Gallipoli Campaign FWW

The CWGC commemorates 377 women who died in The Great War. The last to die was Cicely Pope, a VAD Nursing Sister who was serving in Serbia as part of the Scottish Women's Hospitals organisation. She died on 25th June 1921 and is buried in Nis. @cwgc.bsky.social @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social

#Salonika #FWW

#Egypt #FWW

On #WorldBicycleDay remembering the role played by cyclists in WW1 at home and abroad; some of those who served in #Salonika & elsewhere had started off in the Hunts Cyclists Battalion like Cpl Cyril GB Clifton: awayfromthewesternfront.org/campaigns/to...

On #InternationalNursesDay we remember all those women who served in medical and nursing roles during WW1, especially so far from home in Egypt, Salonika, Gallipoli, Palestine and Mesopotamia: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom...

Remembering on #InternationalNursesDay eight nurses, who died on New Years Eve 1917 when their troop ship HMT Osmanieh struck a mine and sank in under ten minutes, taking 200 personnel with her. All eight are buried side by side in Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Today is #InternationalNursesDay Taken 28th October 1915 in Liverpool this photo shows the amazing women from the Girton & Newnham Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. They set sail for Serbia 2 days later to set up their hospital unit in Salonika #WW1 #histnursing #nurses #IND2025

A Loving Son A Noble Pal 2nd Lt Sydney Frank #Norris from #Coventry died 106yrs ago 28 April 1919, 5 months after the Armistice on his way to Egypt; buried with 15 others @aftwf1418 ‘Turin Men’- most like Sydney died from illness; see summary of research bit.ly/2IjNUj3

Remembering 2015, 12 descendants of men who served in the #Gallipoli campaign attended the centenary event & I was honoured to lay the wreath on our behalf at the Helles Memorial; we are pictured here with Embassy staff after the French ceremony #Gallipoli100 #Gallipoli110 #GallipoliDay #AnzacDay

Remembering those from all nations who took part in the #Gallipoli campaign, especially my grandfather, a 1st Bn #RoyalDublinFusilier who landed on V beach this day in 1915, survived the whole campaign, the #Somme & the North Russian Front His story: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

After #Mesopotamia Lt Dudley C Stewart-Smith, was transferred to 1st Bn Black Watch & sent to France; he started to keep a diary on 18 April 1918, the day he was captured at Givenchy & became a Prisoner of War You can read more of his story here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

Remembering 2nd Lieut John F Johnson 6th Bn King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt killed at Sannaiyat in the #Mesopotamia campaign, 9 April 1916; one of 3 brothers who died in #WW1 John's story, written by students as a graphic novel is here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/wp-content/u...

'Women Away from the Western Front' - When the Empire Calls: the story of Nurse Muriel Leontine Wakeford #WomensHistoryMonth #WW1 #FWW #Gallipoli #Egypt #AustralianArmyNursingService Muriel's story is here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom...

'Women Away from the Western Front’ - Military nurse in Egypt: the story of Lily Harris (Photo © Wilkinson Family) Lily's story is here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom... #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM #WW1 #FWW #Egypt #QAIMNS

'Women Away from the Western Front’ - From Edinburgh to Egypt: Nurse Elsie Russell‘s war as seen through the lens (Photos courtesy of Stuart James) Elsie's story is here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom... #WomensHistoryMonth #WW1 #FWW #Egypt #QAIMNS

‘Women Away from the Western Front’ - Battling disease in Salonika: the story of Nurse Alice Emily Linfield #WomensHistoryMonth #WW1 #FWW #Salonika #QAIMNS awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom...

'Women Away from the Western Front’ - Military nurse in Egypt: the story of Lily Harris (Photo © Wilkinson Family) Lily's story is here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom... #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM #WW1 #FWW #Egypt #QAIMNS

'Women Away from the Western Front’ - From Edinburgh to Egypt: Nurse Elsie Russell‘s war as seen through the lens (Photos courtesy of Stuart James) Elsie's story is here: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom... #WomensHistoryMonth #WW1 #FWW #Egypt #QAIMNS

‘Women Away from the Western Front’ - Battling disease in Salonika: the story of Nurse Alice Emily Linfield #WomensHistoryMonth #WW1 #FWW #Salonika #QAIMNS awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/wom...

#OTD 28 February 1919 Miss Mildred Neale left Turin where she had served from June 1918; she was mentioned in 29th (B) Stationary Hospital War Diary; her British Red Cross Records show that she had been a long-serving VAD during the First World War awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

@aftwf1418.bsky.social 2nd Leicesters were billeted close by. The bell from the station is in the regimental museum.

On 15 February 1930, a dinner and inaugural meeting of the Huntingdon and District Branch of the Salonika Reunion Association, set up by Dr Arthur Greenwood was held at the Walden Café in #Huntingdon #Salonika #SalonikaReunionAssociation awayfromthewesternfront.org/campaigns/to...

📰 An Article Titled 'The Gentlemanly Turk' by the American Journalist Shepherd, who was Present at the Gallipoli Campaign for United Press, was Published in the 'Gazette de Hollande' in the Netherlands on December 30, 1915. [𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁] #gallipoli #war #ww1 #ottomanempire

10th Devons War Diary recorded that on 29 January 1918 ‘Eight platoons of the Bn raided the village of AKINDZALI. We had in casualties two killed and seven wounded' - one of those was Pte W G Arscott, a worker from Castle Drogo, Devon #Salonika #Macedonia awayfromthewesternfront.org/archive/cast...

#OnThisDay 18 January 1915 German forces mounted an attack against British-held Jasin in East Africa & captured it on 19 January; for more information about the First World War in East Africa: awayfromthewesternfront.org/campaigns/af... #WW1 #EastAfrica

On 16 January 1916, French General Maurice Sarrail took command of the Allied forces at #Salonika during the First World War. He held this position until 22 December 1917. Image: General #Sarrail with General Sir George #Milne, commander of the British Salonika Force from 9 May 1916 IWM (HU 81081)

Thank you for posting this lovely memorial window #Winnington #Gallipoli #Palestine

Application for a veterans' card from Kamara Abdoulaye, a soldier from the village of Karena in Guinea who served during the First World War in Cameroon, at the Somme and in Southeastern Europe. He was injured by shrapnel from a shell on the Salonika Front.

The 'ancient Greek vase found at Salonika by British troops while entrenching' in 1916 was reproduced by Shelley in souvenir crested china.

‘Brandy to be given 4-hourly’, as prescribed in his medical notes; Sapper George Frederick Bagwell, a father of 6 died in Egypt in January 1919, 2 months after 1918 Armistice #NewtonAbbot #TorquayMuseum #SpanishFlu #RoyalEngineers awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

On 10 January 1916, 2nd Lt Dudley C Stewart-Smith, 2nd Battalion Black Watch in #Mesopotamia wrote, 'War out here is a thousand times worse than in France’, and that he'd been made transport officer, following an ‘awful action’ - Battle of Sheikh Sa’ad awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

Nurse Annie Allan of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. The photo is captioned "My little home in the east" and was taken in Salonika in 1916. View this and many more photos from her album here: heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/items/show/408 #histnursing #womeninmedicine #WW1

December 1914, the first unit of Elsie Inglis' Scottish Women's Hospitals to leave from Edinburgh for Serbia. 1500 women served in this remarkable all-female endeavour providing medical & surgical care to sick & wounded soldiers, civilians & refugees archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk/special-coll...?