El Paso Herald on Oct 2 1914 publishes this photo of "A wounded Belgium artilleryman after having his wounds dressed; ready for another battle." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084...

3/3 Colourized by DB Colour who writes“1st Btn, Middx Regt, war dairy, shows that artillery fire killed 9 horses. 3 men were killed and 30 wounded ...man wounded in the head, maybe 2nd Lt Alfred Frederick Sang, who died of his wounds in Nº8 Hospital in Rouen" Oct 2 1914 bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal on Oct 1 1916 Greek with traditional uniform is speaking with a French soldier The Hawaiian Gazette on Oct 15 1915 publishes this photo of what it claims is "Greek infantry on Macedonian border." photo is actually fighters from "Sparta" on the Greco-Turkish border

Le Petit Journal on Oct 1 1916 Sur Le Front Italien - Mitrailleurs alpins en embuscade On the Italian Front - Alpine machine gunners in ambush Alamy has a colourization with the caption: "Italian soldiers fighting in the Dolomites" gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

The Chickasha Daily Express #OTD Oct 1 1915 publishes this photo of famed Württemberg Regiment being inspected by the German Crown Prince and Field Marshal Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

PSM - Pg 197 Austrian troops observing Italian troop movements Oct 1 1917 on Silhouetted, an Imperial Austro-Hungarian soldier sits on a cliff face Soldiers on the summit during the Alpine War. Rifle patrol in the Dolomites. Sep 24 1917 Marmolata: "U"Süd Stellung. Datierung

Sep 1914 Jules Gervais-Courtellemont takes these colour autochrome photos of the French Army and some of its colonial fighting units in the opening battles of #WWI en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_G... bsky.app/profile/this...

Private Flora Sandes was the only British woman to serve in uniform, in combat, as an enlisted soldier in World War One. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

NZ Truth Sep 30 1916 Page 8 prints these cartoons of the new developments in World War 1. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/n... bsky.app/profile/this...

“Littlest Soldier” by J.C. Leyendecker from the cover of the Sept 30 1916 Saturday Evening Post saturdayeveningpost.com/2012/08/17/a... bsky.app/profile/this...

Aberdeen Herald Sep 29 1914 prints this Wallace Goldsmith cartoon of Uncle Sam reaching a hand across the Atlantic to assist war ravaged Europe. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

NZ's Evening Post Sep 30 1914 reports Canadians to create a French-Canadian Force of 5000 men, the 22nd Regiment aka the Van Doos. "Dr. Nigneault" (probably wealthy Dr Arthur Mignault) gave $50,000 to unit's creation (USD$50,000 in 1914 would be $ 1,600,000 in 2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_2...

Rock Island Argus Sep 30 1914 British seize American copper being shipped to neutral Holland while Germany seizes American cigarette factories in Berlin Seattle Star Jan 7 1915 Allied nations seizing American ships that are trading with Germany bsky.app/profile/this...

A French boy introducing himself to Indian Army soldiers in Marseilles, France #OTD Sep 30 1914. Published in the British newspaper the Daily Mirror Oct 3 1914. Colourized by @marinamaral.bsky.social britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk//search/resu... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Library of Congress entry for this photo of a Hotchkiss Automitrailleuse says it was taken #OTD Sep 30 1916 in the Ottoman Empire. However, I've seen others say it is a photo from the period of 1910 before the Balkan Wars. loc.gov/pictures/ite... bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 30 1918 #OTD Near Duncan Post, in the Ronssoy area of France, this photo, AWM E04937, shows a ditched Male Mark V Tank. It was one of a number of tanks disabled by land mines in the fighting. On the top of the tank is the semaphore signaling device bsky.app/profile/this...

New-York Tribune #OTD Sep 30 1917 photo of an Italian soldier at the Cima Lana and Pordoi Pass. High in Dolomite Alps many soldiers lost their lives in battles between the armies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Italy. Col di Lana war memorial chapel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_di_...

LIFE magazine #OTD Sep 30 1915 publishes this George L Carlson illustration of submarine represented as a Viking Ship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_... bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 26 1915 Austro-Hungarian photographer takes this photo of a Heavy war bridge over Putilowka built by the 1/9th Pioneer Company, Wola Kninigowka onb.digital/result/BAG_1... bsky.app/profile/this...

Bisbee Daily Review Mar 24 1915 an Iron Cross goes to Kaiser K9 Corp Dog, "Tell." Saved his unit from a Russian ambush Chicago Tribune Sep 30 1915 Red Cross Captain Fraulein Frieda Mueller uses dogs to find wounded Germans Nov 30 1915 treating injured Red Cross medical dog bsky.app/profile/this...

Daily Telegraph Sep 30 1914 reports on French Red Cross dog, Tom who saved a wounded soldier. Half buried under bodies, paralyzed by wounds, soldier begs "Run along, Tom. Go and find my comrades. Get on. Find them." Tom was able to bring rescuers who took man to hospital. bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 17 1920 In Péronne, France, Frédéric Gadmer takes these colour autochrome photos 105 years ago. They show the British Mark IV Tank (s/n 2757) "Gordon" G Battalion, 21 Company, 9 sec, G44. Gordon Last fought on Sep 30 1918 near Tilloy and was gifted to Péronne after war bsky.app/profile/this...

Photographer H. S Stanham takes this photo, IWM Q 109658, of Indian soldiers on the road with horses and bicycles. IWM places it during the retreat from Mons, Belgium (Aug 24 – Sep 5 1914) but the Indian Army didn't arrive till Sep 30 1914 bsky.app/profile/this...

At 3:55 AM on May 24 1915 Italy entered #WW1 by firing the 1st two cannon shots from Fort Verena. One year later May 22, 1916 the Austro-Hungarians captured the fort. Sep 22 1917 Austro-Hungarian photographers take 3rd photo of Werk Verena (Fort Verena) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_V...

Austro-Hungarian photographers take these photos: Sep 20 1917 Field Weather Station X Sep 23 1915 Difficult section on the Prassnik - Saddle trail. Stone Hunter Luschari. Viewpoint: Eastern slope of Stone Hunter. bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 21 1915 21st Infantry Regiment in position south of Stakow Sep 25 1917 Machine gun in firing position Sep 23 1917 Trento. (Doss di Trento) Protection for pigeons against gas attacks. bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 30 1917 Austro-Hungarian photographers take these photos of the cable car station: Gran Poz - Col de Bous. Sep 29 1917 Strekiza cable car line, pictures show Fella cable car station bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 29 1918 #OTD During the Battle of St Quentin Canal, David McLellan takes these images of Mark V with 'Crib Fascines' on their roofs. The Cribs were dropped into trenches to help the Tanks pass wide German Trenches IWM Q 9365, IWM Q 9366, IWM Q 9371 bsky.app/profile/this...

NZ's Evening Post #OTD Sep 29 1914 reports on Grimsby trawling fleet, spend months on sea fishing and without radios have no way to contact their home ports. They have no idea #WW1 has started and Navy desperately needs their sailors paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/E... bsky.app/profile/this...

Corpus Christi Caller and Daily Herald #OTD Sep 29 1914 publish this photo of "British Rapid Fire Gun Drawn by Bicycles ... a machine gun division consisting of rapid guns drawn by bicycles. Three bicyclists draw each but the photograph shows only one" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86088...

Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Sep 29 1915 publishes this photo of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria reviewing his troops before entering #WWI and has massed 250,000 Bulgar troops are massed on the Serbian frontier chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024...

Nov 29 1915 #OTD Illustrated London News publishes Amédée Forestier illustration of the Ghostly Bowmen of Mons fighting Germans. The story is likely linked to the fictional Arthur Machen short story published Sep 29 1914. 1 of several supernatural reports from front web.archive.org/web/20150611...

Evening Post #OTD Sep 29 1914 POW rations: —1lb bread or 3/4lb biscuit —3/4lb fresh meat or 1lb preserved meat —3oz cheese —5/8oz tea —1/4lb jam —3oz sugar —1/2oz salt —1-20oz mustard —1-3602i pepper —1lb fresh vegetables —2oz peas or dried potatoes —2oz tobacco a week bsky.app/profile/this...

El Paso Herald Jun 22 1915 publishes France is spending $250 per second ($ 7,800 in 2025) on #WW1 Chicago Tribune on May 18 1915 reports war is costing UK $150 every sec ($ 4,600 in 2025) The Hawaiian Gazette Sep 29 1914 calculates that Imperial Germany is spending $230 per sec ($7,150 in 2025)

Sep 29 1916 In the ruling from, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. USA, Standard Oil is determined to be a monopoly and broken up. In the break up, the share prices increased making John D. Rockefeller USA's 1st billionaire, with a fortune worth nearly 2% of national economy bsky.app/profile/this...

I knew that activated charcoal could absorb the substance, but I had no idea that peach seeds had such an effect. www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...

Sep 21 1914 NZ paper French POWs in Munich are being exhibited for two pence Washington Herald Sep 28 1914 Annihilate all Frenchmen but save Paris' art treasures Sep 23 1914 Corpus Christi Caller and Daily Herald "slave women and children are employed by the Austrians" digging trenches

Sep 22 1918 #OTD Near Deraa (Present day Syria) 1st Handley Page bomber aircraft lands in the Ottoman desert. Arab Sherifan mounted troops celebrate it joining their Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Scene captured by Stuart Reid, IWM Art.IWM ART 3198 bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 22 1915 #OTD The West Virginia newspaper, The Daily Telegram publishes this photo, IWM Q 53739, of Camels carrying ammunition to Turkish lines in #Gallipoli. IWM says it is the streets of Smyrna (Now İzmir, Turkey) bsky.app/profile/this...

New York Times Sep 22 1918 - "Great hordes of German Prisoners [POWs], captured by the British in the August Offensive on the Western Front, going to the rear under British Cavalry guard." bsky.app/profile/this...

Painting, AWM ART02927, by Fred Leist showing the moment when Australian Lt John Turnour, of the 59th Bn, was shot while drawing enemy fire so his men could flank and attack the German pillboxes #OTD Sep 26 1917 during the Australian attack in Polygon Wood www.awm.gov.au/collection/A...

Sep 22 1917 In Chaulnes, Somme, France, Fernand Cuville takes autochrome photo, A13239, of a shattered wood Sep 22 1920 Georges Chevalier photo, A23944, of cemetary in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon , France Sep 22 1915 Tattooed soldier Hermin, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, A6771 bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 22 1914 Brooklyn Bridge showing system of painting bridge cables - Behind the camera is Eugene de Salignac famouspictures.org/painters-on-...

The New York Times (New-York, NY) Sep 28 1919 In France thousands of trucks left behind by the American forces after the war www.loc.gov/resource/sn7... bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 23 1918 "Women of Boston are lending a helping hand in the drive for peach stones, which are being used by the Government in the production of gas masks. This Tableau was arranged to help in the campaign." catalog.archives.gov/id/533787 bsky.app/profile/this...

New Zealand newspapers NZ Truth Sep 23 1916 publish these cartoonists bsky.app/profile/this...

Chicago Tribune Sep 21 1916 publishes this John T. McCutcheon cartoon asking the question: Did #WW1 save America #ww1cartoon archives.chicagotribune.com/1916/09/21/ bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 29 1916 In the ruling from, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. USA, Standard Oil is determined to be a monopoly and broken up. In the break up, the share prices increased making John D. Rockefeller USA's 1st billionaire, with a fortune worth nearly 2% of national economy bsky.app/profile/this...

The Tacoma Times Sep 22 1915 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon of the personification of "diplomacy" dropping the Balkan States into the pits of war www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Chickasha Daily Express Sep 23 1915 French sportsmen fight in the skies. "Second from left is Georges Carpenter the famous boxer and the third is Somes, French champion cyclist" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...