Jan 5 1918 #OTD At Riencourt, near Bapaume, France, war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of Royal Artillery gunners of 51st Division entering a collapsed water tower to enjoy a dry night's sleep bsky.app/profile/this...

The Mt Vernon, Ohio paper Democratic Banner #OTD Jan 5 1915 publish this photo of "French people rendered homeless by the German occupation of northern France are here seen as refugees in a church under the care of German soldiers." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88078...

Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Jan 5 1915 "a fast flying German Taube endeavoring to escape from a pursuing French aero which is equipped with & rapid fire machine gun ... The action took place above the battlefield of the Arras" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrich_...

Topeka State Journal Jan 5 1915 "Dogs Having their day as sentries in the British Army ... Britain has come to the fore and ... This wire-haired terrier shown in the trenches with the British fighters is one of Major Richardson's well known sentry dogs. " chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016...

Jan 5 1911 Herbert Ponting pic (Ref: PA1-f-067-12-04) during Scott's British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913). Colourized by Irootoko. Not a Frank Hurley picture. Hurley was on Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917) Jan 5 1922 Shackleton died during another Antarctic attempt

The Sphere Magazine Jan 5 1918 publishes this Fortunino Matania illustration showing "The daring exploit of a patrol of Alpini which saved an Italian position, An incident in mountain warfare." bsky.app/profile/this...

3/3 Spartacists named after German Marxist Spartacus League "Spartakusbund" founded in 1914. To fight them government relied on antiSoviet German militia, military vets the Freikorps. Uprising launched on Jan 5 1919 but was quickly crushed by Freikorps on Jan 12 1919 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartac...

New-York Tribune Feb 23 1919 prints this picture of a Maschinengewehr 08/15 Leki-Mitralez 7.9mm machine gun perched on a balcony during Spartacus Uprising (Spartakusaufstand) Jan 5-12 1919 which was fought between communist insurgents and German Freikorps bsky.app/profile/this...

Jul 7 1915 Chicago Tribune prints this story about five Montenegrins held for violating neutrality laws in America by raising money and recruiting for the Montenegrin State bsky.app/profile/this...

Chicago Tribune Jun 18 1915 prints this John McCutcheon cartoon: Which will it be? Kaiser exiled at St Helena or Kaiser The Conqueror archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/06/18/p... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Ogden Standard Jul 23 1915 "State department officials said today that Germans in the United States who might be prosecuted ... for working in ammunition factories in lands supplying war materials to Germany's enemies were in no danger of extradition" to Germany www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

This American cartoonist depicts the unhappy state of 'Sick Man Turkey.' who has 'played the goat' for Germany's sake and is suffering as a result.—-(Huntingdon 'Dispatch,' West Virginia.) – Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16676, Jul 6 1916, Page 3 bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 3 1915 Chicago Tribune Due to "Bad management" about 500 of 1,300 troops in Belleville, Ont "broke bonds tonight and said they were going to retire to their homes." New York Times Apr 4 1916 In Winnipeg rioting for 7 hrs "suppressed by the military authorities [50+] soldiers were arrested."

Apr 3 1915 The Neutral Press call Joffre's French attack the Snail Offensive - Lustige Blätter archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/04/03/p... bsky.app/profile/this...

Jan 4 1918 Near Croissilles, France, Thomas Keith Aitken takes these photos of trench life of the 15th Battalion, of The Royal Scots. It was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army until it was merged into another unit 2006 bsky.app/profile/this...

Jan 4 1914 In Delhi, India, Stéphane Passet takes these colour autochrome photos The Qutb Minaret (Qutb Minar) and South Gate, Alai Darwasa, A 4 272 The Nizamuddin Dargah, a Sufi shrine built over the tomb of Hazrat Khawaja Nizamuddin Auliya (1238-1325) The mausoleum of Safdar Jung, A 4 284

Jan 4 1914 In Cairo, Egypt, Auguste Léon takes these colour autochrome photos of: Rue de la vieille ville, Cairo, Egypt, A 2967 Water Carrier carrying a furry water Vessel, A 2978 Pottery seller sitting in his shop, A 3622 bsky.app/profile/this...

El Paso Herald Jan 4 1915 German POWs at Southend-On-Sea including "crack' German Jäger or sharp-shooter battalions which took part with the Guard attack on Ypres ... recognizable in this and the illustration opposite by their shakos, the Jäger's head-gear" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084...

Ogden Standard Jan 4 1915 "French, before occupying any of the trenches from which the Germans have withdrawn, lay their mines in the trench and then explode them as a safeguard ... other photo shows a captive balloon which was used at the French base Alsace for observation"

Jan 4 1917 Chicago Tribune publishes this John T. McCutcheon cartoon Wilson has plenty of experience with War archives.chicagotribune.com/1917/01/04/p...

Jul 14 1913 Senegalese Tirailleur in dress uniform with a Military parade on Bastille day Jan 4 1914 In Marseille, a Senegalese Tirailleur with his Wife, at the "Hospice de la Charité" Colourized by Memento

Jan 4 1917 Chicago Tribune publishes John T. McCutcheon cartoon about America purchasing Danish West Indies. Islands were eventually sold to United States for $25 million ($600 million in 2025) and Mar 31 1917 renamed the renamed the territory the US Virgin Islands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_...

Aberdeen Herald Dec 4 1914 prints this Robert Carter cartoon about the plight of the Belgian refugee www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Dec 4 1914 Belgians riot in Dutch POW camps. Dutch forced to open fire, several killed Chicago Tribune Jan 29 1915 Dutch border guards IWM 1061-09j, released Dec 3 1914, Belgian internees playing a game that involves, tossing corks to pass the time bsky.app/profile/this...

Harrisburg Telegraph #OTD Dec 4 1914 publishes this photo of French colonial Senegalese "troops called to the front by France are here shown in advance trenches beyond Purvyse during the battle in Flanders." www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Omaha Daily Bee Dec 5 1914 "Typhoid is Raging in the Belgian Army British medical officials are vigorously attacking the problem of a typhoid outbreak in the Belgian army ... a ship for duty as a floating hospital in the harbor of Calais." bsky.app/profile/this...

Jan 3 1917 In Yenbo, Lawrence of Arabia photos of Anti-Ottoman Arab forces led by Emir Feisal bin Husain al-Hashimi and Sherif Sharraf leading the Ageyl bodyguard heading to capture Wejh (Now in Saudi Arabia). Royal Navy force takes Wejh Jan 23–24 1917, Lawrence and Arab forces show up 2 days late

Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st woman to hold federal office in USA. Starts as U.S. House of Representatives from Montana: Mar 4 1917 – Mar 3 1919 Jan 3 1941 – Jan 3 1943 Fiercely anti-war, was the U.S. House of Representative to vote against WWII after Japanese attack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannet...

Chicago Tribune Apr 13 1916 Hooray For Home and Country Pour La Patrie Für Vaterland Hooray Jan 3 1918 La Baïonnette bsky.app/profile/this...

Oct 4 1925 Stalin ends Prohibition in the Soviet Union that had existed since the Tzar banned alcohol in 1914. Stalin's state control of the sale of alcohol brought in much needed funds to the Soviet Union. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibi... bsky.app/profile/this...

Jan 2 1918 At Bapaume, France war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of the Royal Flying Corps Kite and Balloon Section rehearsing the pantomine "Cinderella" bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal on Jan 2 1916: Bridge in Baghdad. The Washington Times on Nov 21 1914: Ottoman soldiers crossing the Tigris river in a donut-shaped boat a Kuphar. Jul 1917 IWM Q 25318 shows Indian troops aboard horse drawn tram cars which ran between Baghdad and Kadhimiya

Oklahoma City Times #OTD Jan 2 1915: Hudson Maxim inventor of smokeless gunpowder (brother of Hiram Maxim, inventor of Maxim gun) predicts the USA will be forced to fight winner of #WWI. A successful invasion of Metro NYC would give invader control of the American military industrial complex

The Lakeland Evening Telegram Jan 2 1915: "Fiji, as a dependency of the British empire ... having sanctioned the sending of a contingent of native troops to the front. The photograph shows a squad of these tall will-built soldiers chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn95047...

Omaha Daily Bee Jan 2 1915 publishes photo (on the right) "German Raid On British Coast - Signal station at Whitby, which appears to have made a good target for gunners aboard German warships." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021...

Jan 2 1918 Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire climb to their positions on Monticello. Jan 7 1918 Photos of Austro-Hungarian positions on the Italian Front in #WW1. Austro-Hungarian Drilling Rig bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 14 1915 Illustrated London News publishes an article about revival of Body-Armour in #WW1, including a pistol shield. To the right is an image by Achille Beltrame for the Italian publication Jan 2 1918 'La Comgagia della Morte' archive.org/details/sim_... bsky.app/profile/this...

This newsreel footage (IWM IWM 130-07-+8) released in 1917, shows scenes during the Battle of the Somme. The clip was possibly taken by British-born cameraman Oscar Bovill. British Male Mark I Tank (s/n 721) "Crème de Menthe" supports the advance against German forces. bsky.app/profile/this...

Evening Public Ledger #OTD Jan 1 1915 publishes photos of Philadelphia's Mummers Parade. An annual tradition started in 1901 that includes Comics, Drag shows, Wench Brigades, Fancies, String Bands, and Fancy Brigades chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers...

Ohio newspaper The Democratic banner #OTD Jan 1 1915 prints this cartoon of the contrast between Europe burning with its vast battlegrounds while Americans ring in New Year by burning up the dance floor chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88078...

The Weekly Tribune and the Cape County Herald Jan 1 1915 "Siberian Troops arrive to defend Warsaw Siberian artillery and inset infantry photographed in Warsaw just after their arrival there to help defend the city against the German army." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89066...

Evening Star Jan 1 1915 publish this cartoon Clifford Berryman about the New Year chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045... bsky.app/profile/this...

Jan 1 1915 U-Boat SM U-24 sinks HMS Formidable (1898), 546 crew KIA. Some of dead put in a makeshift morgue at Pilot Boat Inn, Lyme Regis, UK. Lassie, the dog of the Inn's owner refused to leave the body of seaman, John Cowan, licking his face and reviving him with warmth bsky.app/profile/this...

Dec 30 1917 HMT Aragon was ordered to wait outside the Egyptian port of Alexandria wth no anti-submarine protection. It was an easy target for German U-Boat SM UC-34. Of the 2,200 soldiers and crew aboard 610 were killed including Captain Bateman and 19 of his crew en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMT_Ara...

Bismarck Daily Tribune Dec 31 1914 German Hans Halle confesses to placing "An infernal machine [made up of 100 pounds of dynamite] cleverly timed to explode outside the harbor of New Orleans aboard a British transport conveying mules to the French army" bsky.app/profile/this...

The Bismarck Tribune Dec 31 1917 publishes this photo "all wearing the hideous looking things, it's enough to make the most hardened fighter shiver. Looks like a procession of strange beings from another planet ... they are safety-firsting." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042...

The Daily Panhandle #OTD Dec 31 1918 publishes this picture of "an American War Secret" an 8in howitzer, motor-mounted. Charlie Clelland of landships.info writes that it is a Holt SPG Mark I, one of the first self propelled artillery (SPGs). bsky.app/profile/this...

Pg 11 - Daily Telegraph #OTD Dec 31 1914 reports, well-known Nationalist, Mr. Surendranath Banerji working on resolution of loyalty to Throne." If England demanded it ...the last drop of blood that flowed through them would be at the service of the Empire" bsky.app/profile/this...

Pg 10 Daily Telegraph #OTD Dec 31 1914 reports that Muslims in the "Soudan" pledge loyalty to the UK even though Islamic leaders in Ottoman Empire declared a Holy War against Allies. In 1916 Anglo-Egyptian force would conquer Darfur and annex it to Sudan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-E...

Dec 31 1919 #OTD In Beirut, French Syria (Now Lebanon) Frédéric Gadmer takes colour autochrome photos of High Commissioner General Henri Gouraud. He had lost his arm early in #WWI. Sep 1 1920, France reestablished Greater Lebanon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_G... bsky.app/profile/this...