Paul Castelnau autochromes in original colour 108 years ago Apr 24 1918 "Riche Bédouin " in Djeddah (Now Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) Apr 26 1918 LtoR: Lt Couderc, French officer; Mahmoud Bey, Hejaz Minister of War; Commander Cousse of the French Military Mission in Hejaz; and Lt Mustafa, aide-de-camp

Pte James Kershaw, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), 1st Bn had joined army before WWI & had even served in India. Deserted his unit Oct 28 1914. Arrested and escaped 3 times. His luck finally ran out when he was apprehended, sentenced and executed #OTD Apr 26 1915 google.ca/books/editio...

This clip (NAID: 25025 & Local ID: 111-H-1525) in Dijon, France. Filmed Apr 26 1918, it shows a camouflaged knoll where 30 kinds of observation and sniper holes are concealed. bsky.app/profile/this...

Jermadar Mir Dast, 58th Coke's Rifles Frontier Force, was awarded the #VictoriaCross for actions Apr 26 1915 during 2nd Battle of Ypres. After all his officers were KIA he led "his platoon with great gallantry" Mir Dast was 4th Indian Army soldier to be awarded the VC en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Dast

April 25, 1926: A forest of masts rises from the waterfront of Oakland, where 15 sailing ships that have been in service for over 50 years fishing for salmon off Alaska will soon be scrapped to make way for steamships.

Newsreel clip, IWM IWM 508-64, shows the German A7V Tank 'Elfriede', that rolled on its side Apr 24 1918. It was salvaged and repaired so that it could move under its own power. UK and French soldiers cheer while on top. It was later moved and put on display at Place de la Concorde, in Paris, France

Apr 23 1918 In Mont des Cats, France, John Warwick Brooke, takes this photo, IWM Q 7871, of a "French car screened from aerial observation by branches cut from the trees" 23 April 1918-04-23 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Apr 14 1917 John Warwick Brooke takes these pictures of Royal Engineers using an unfinished temporary bridge and a pontoon-ferry over the River Scarpe near Saint-Laurent-Blangy IWM Q 5820, IWM Q 5821 He also took a photo, IWM Q 5822, of the finished bridge on Apr 22 1917

21 year old Pte Joseph Ferguson had enlisted in Royal Scots Fusiliers in Oct 1913. While his unit was engaged in tunnel operations in the Somme he deserted. MPs found him claiming to be a war hero. He was executed at Wanquetin on Apr 20 1917. Son of Mrs Theresa Ferguson, of 16 Brook Street, Dundee.

Apr 25 1917 #OTD During the Battle of Arras, war photographer Ernest Brooks took this photo, IWM Q 2098, of "Cycle Orderlies" under fire in the ruined village of Etreillers. April 25 1917-04-25 iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Apr 25 1917 cartoon of Kaiser telling soldier that in death he will has use. Apr 17 1917 propaganda campaign started, reporting of existence of German Corpse Factories, where battlefield corpses were processed into fat for explosives, soap en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_... bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal Apr 25 1915 The Nightmare of Germania Le Cauchemar de la Germania Russian Prisoner Mutilated by German Officers Prisonnier Russe Mutilé par des Officiers Allemands gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 25 1917 An Austro-Hungarian photographer takes these photos of an anti-aircraft machine gun of the 1st Company, Landsturm 152. Sentries watch the front lines from their position on the Lanzenkopf bsky.app/profile/this...

In 14th century, a shepherd stumbled upon a statue of the Virgin Mary on a mountain and built a chapel, later becoming the Pilgrimage Church of Santa Maria del Lussari. This Austro-Hungarian photo (taken Apr 25 1917) shows the complex has been heavily damaged. #ThenAndNow bsky.app/profile/this...

LSgt William Kenealy was 1 of 6 members of Lancashire Fusiliers Regiment elected by comrades to receive Victoria Cross. Awarded for actions during Apr 25 1915 Gallipoli landing to West of Cape Helles. Mortally wounded during Battle of Gully Ravine, died Jun 29 1915 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

Apr 24 1918 "Members of the crew of HMS PRINCE EUGENE cleaning the upper deck of HMS VINDICTIVE after her return to Dover following the Zeebrugge Raid" One sailor holds a flamethrower used in the Raid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeebrug... bsky.app/profile/this...

South Bend News-Times Apr 24 1915 photoshops this photo to remove French writing on the trucks sent to the Eastern Front to support the Russian war effort. "In Poland ... heavy fighting has been going on the roads are too bad... and generally horses are relied on. bsky.app/profile/this...

2/6 With around a dozen A7V Tanks Germans successfully attacked Villers-Bretonneux but Mephisto got stuck in a shell hole Apr 24 1918 and abandoned when Allied troops regained town in counter attack. The Tank was in a no mans land and lay undiscovered for weeks. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Po...

3 of Canada's Victoria Cross (VC) recipients resided on same 700 block of Valour Rd, Winnipeg: Leo Clarke received VC for actions on Sep 9 1916 Frederick William Hall VC for actions on night of Apr 24 1915 Robert Shankland for VC actions #OTD Oct 26 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valour_...

Rock Island Argus Apr 23 1915 prints this Bob Satterfield cartoon about the Japanese landing in Mexico to deal with a grounded Japanese Navy Warship, Imperial Japanese Navy Cruiser Asama chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053... bsky.app/profile/this...

Chicago Tribune Apr 23 1915 publishes these Louis Raemaekers' images as part of a series on collapse of Civilization in the European War: De Kunst Gekruisigd Europe , 1916 Kreuzland, Kreuzland Über Alles Eerste Wereldoorlog, propaganda, ansichtkaarten, prentbriefkaarten bsky.app/profile/this...

William Lionel Wyllie creates this image of The Mersey ferries 'Iris' and Daffodil' returning to New Brighton on May 17 1918, after the Zeebrugge raid Apr 23 1918 bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 21 1917 Flying a Sopwith Pup 2nd Lt Bernard Smart launched from deck of HMS Yarmouth, attacks Zeppelin LZ 66 (L 23) making it explode in flame. 1 crew parachutes but later drowned. Zeppelin Airship once captured a Norwegian ship “Royal” in North Sea Apr 23 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppeli...

Bemidji Daily Pioneer Apr 22 1918 Inventor of machine gun, Levi W Lombard, that will fire 33,000 shots per min. Claim: "the new weapon is of centrifugal type and can be operated by motor, gasoline, steam or by hand. It has no barrel, operating on the principle of a spring" bsky.app/profile/this...

Democratic Banner Apr 23 1915 Black diphtheria strikes Etna, Ohio. Bisbee Daily Review Jul 17 1915 Austro-Hungarians with disinfectant wagons to fight Cholera, "greater horror ... than the bullets of the enemy." The Tacoma Times Apr 22 1915 animal size shown to relative to their death toll

Chicago Tribune Apr 22 1915 US state department has telegraphed the American consul in Warsaw to report if "Jews in Poland have suffered persecution at the hands of the Russians" in World War 1 4,000 Afghanistan tribesmen attack British India on the northwestern frontier (present day Pakistan)

Apr 22 1915 Recounting 1st Western Front gas attack, Cdn Pte Underwood recounted French Zouaves in "blue coats and red pants and caps ... were running away ... Then we got orders to shoot them down, which we did. We just turned around and shot them as they were running away" bsky.app/profile/this...

The #ww1 scientists who gave their lives to defeat poison gas on this the anniversary of the 1st time gas was used on the Western Front on Apr 22 1915 www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

Guthrie Daily Leader Jun 7 1915 First photo to arrive in US showing a victim of the chlorine gas on Apr 22 by the Germans near Ypres. Soldier at Hill No. 60, not knowing the danger, because neither he nor any others had experienced such a thing before, he did not run in time bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 23 1915 #OTD Chicago Tribune publishes this photo of French soldiers wearing gas masks, ready for Imperial German poison gas attacks. The first German use of gas on the Western Front was Apr 22 1915 bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 20 1918 #OTD On the former RNAS aerodrome, near Dunkirk, war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of a Handley Page O/400 heavy bomber en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Guthrie Daily Leader #OTD Apr 21 1915 publishes this photo of Hedshin, the largest camel in the army of the Ottoman Empire. He struggles to lift Dr. Ingells, the German chief of the Ottoman medical staff in the field with the Ottoman army. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063...

The Copper Era and Morenci Leader Apr 21 1916 post this photo of "United States cavalry viewing the dead body of a Villa bandit killed in the flight from Columbus" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94050... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Guthrie Daily Leader #OTD Apr 21 1915 publishes this photo of Hedshin, the largest camel in the army of the Ottoman Empire. He struggles to lift Dr. Ingells, the German chief of the Ottoman medical staff in the field with the Ottoman army. bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 21 1918 #OTD German fighter ACE Manfred von Richthofen (aka Red Baron) is brought down by Australian AA fire while saving his cousin, Wolfram von Richthofen, from Canadian attack. Apr 22 1918 Australians burry him in a special ceremony. Family later moves grave to Berlin bsky.app/profile/this...

The Seattle Star on Apr 20 1915 publishes this photo of Jean Marie Caujolle, a young tradesman of Paris, who came back from the front lines with one medal but minus two legs. Colourized by Great War in Colour chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093... bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 20 1918 USS Nebraska with dazzle camouflage in Norfolk, Virginia. Colourized by greatwarincolour USS Siboney in her dazzle paint scheme, at Philadelphia, Jan 1919 HMS Kilbride painted in her dazzle camouflage

Bisbee Daily Review Apr 20 1915 "Holland-American line steamship Noordam now on her way to Europe ... The flag was on show while bearing the word "Peace" in blue letters. The American delegation is headed by Miss Jane Adams of Chicago, who will preside at the conference." bsky.app/profile/this...

Chicago Tribune Apr 20 1916 Shoes are destroying your feet, with every step you take bsky.app/profile/this...

Evening Public Ledger Apr 20 1915 "rifle pits in which marksmen lie prostrate on their backs well down behind the protecting earth. They pull the trigger with the thumb. The range and firing angle tire given to them by an officer. Thus they avoid exposure" bsky.app/profile/this...

Free Lance May 19 1916 "We bumped up against those limbs of Satan, the Anzacs" ANZAC Day (April 25th) - It's 1st anniversary. Can we ever forget it? Free Lance Apr 20 1916 bsky.app/profile/this...

Jul 12 1917 #OTD AWN published a pic of Destroyer HMS Broke ramming Imperial German Navy Destroyer SMS G42 in Dover Strait Apr 20 1917. The ships became locked together and the Germans tried to board Broke. Crews fought before SMS G42 sank en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... bsky.app/profile/this...

Austro-Hungarian photos taken on Apr 20 1916 of Observation post and a bunker at Javorcek opposite the Slatnik Trench. Also a similar artillery position in Aug 20, 1917, in the Rattendorfer Alps bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 17 1916 At No2 Casualty Clearing Station, 29 year old, Private Charles Angus Flyn (s/n 154911) 1st Pioneer Battalion, dies of gunshot wounds to his back and chest. Charles was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Barbara and Thomas who lived at 8 Hope Park Square. He was a mechanic in the CPR, Alberta

Scenes from the Second Battle of Gaza Apr 17-19 1917 including an Australian observer in an armoured car, Australian Light Horse moving forward and an Ottoman machine gun unit bsky.app/profile/this...

Sep 1918 Near Amman (Now the capital of Jordan) A photographer takes this image, AWM P08401.003, of a captured Ottoman armoured rail car on the railway line www.awm.gov.au/collection/C... bsky.app/profile/this...

1/4 🧵Victory for the Ottoman Empire in the Second Battle of Gaza Apr 17–19 1917. The Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) that fought the Ottomans had 8 Mark I Tanks: Male Tanks Sir Archibald Otazel (Hot as Hell!) Pincher Ole Luk Oie Female Tanks War Baby (s/n 574) Kia Ora Nutty Tiger

Oct 11 1918 #OTD "It cost [Sgt Richmond H. Hilton] an arm to clean out a German machine-gun nest. Can the cost of Victory Bonds be weighed against his bravery? Can anyone, thinking of Hilton say, 'I can't afford it?'" Hilton was awarded MoH en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmon... bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 18 1918 photos of Lt Douglas Campbell (left) and Lieutenant Allan F. Winslow of the 94th Aero Squadron became the first pilots of US planes to shoot down German planes on Apr 14 1918. ⏬ US pilots flying for the French military had victories in earlier in the war bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 18 1917 A French photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 80286, of the "view of the battlefield at Mont-Sapin near Chavonne" Production date: 1917-04-18 April 1917 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...