Jun 24 1915 "German ambulance men at Soissons, in France, rendering first aid to a wounded soldier, who was located by the four-footed red cross worker" AWNS-19150624-44-07 kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/coll...

ec 2 1918 #OTD David McLellan photo of a British Mark IV captured Tank (Possibly "Fritze" Abteilungen.14, No.5) Jun 24 1920 Georges Chevalier colour autochrome photos British Mark IV Tank renamed 'Lotte' and used by Imperial German Army on Jul 15 1918 bsky.app/profile/this...

Cartoonists making incredible predictions! Apr 1920 John T. McCutcheon draws League of Nations sowing seeds of war Jul 9 1919 William C Morris draws future generations of Germans fed nothing but revenge Jun 24 1919 Will Dyson predicts Class of 1940 will be “cannon fodder”

Jun 16 1917 At the regiment's depot at Satwari, Jammu, India, Indian officers of the 2nd Kashmir Rifles. Photo shows a German flag and and machine gun captured in the Action at Lukigura River on Jun 24 1916 in German East Africa bsky.app/profile/this...

Bisbee Daily Review on Feb 5 1915 reports on Zeppelin Blitz by making collage of 3 photos: Count Gottlieb von Haeseler with Count Zeppelin Zeppelin over RN's 2nd Battle Squad in Kiel Canal, Germany, Jun 24 1914 Airship LZ 13 Hansa chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024... bsky.app/profile/this...

Washington Herald #OTD Aug 1 1914 Zeppelin over Royal Navy's 2nd Battle Squad in Kiel Canal, Germany. Jun 24 1914 made a goodwill visit to German Navy's base at Kiel. Jun 28 Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, UK Warships left Jun 30 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045... bsky.app/profile/this...

New Zealand newspaper the NZ Truth June 24 1916 prints these 2 cartoons: To the Kaiser they all bow And all they get is the spike! Jun 24 1916 Johnny Turk screams, That's not fair! It's a bear, It's a BEAR, IT'S A BEAR bsky.app/profile/this...

Chickasha Daily Express #OTD Jun 24 1916 publishes this pic of a munition factory, "Scene in one of the great munition factories of England where thousands of workers are employed in turning out shells for the armies of the allies." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86090... bsky.app/profile/this...

US newspaper Omaha Daily Bee on Jun 24 1915 publishes this picture of an Italian soldier saying goodbye to his family in Rome before he goes to the front chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021... bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 23 1924 In Ablain-St Nazaire, La Mairie, France, Frédéric Gadmer takes these autochrome photos of the church and town hall 102 years ago. Third photo shows the a google street view of the church taken in Apr 2025.

Jun 23 1916 A French photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 78091, of Spahis in a forward trench near Saussoy Farm, south-east of Ribecourt. 23 June 1916-06-23 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Jun 22 1918 #OTD At Dieval, France, war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of the Motor machine guns including gunners feeding a new ammunition belt into MG. Bikes are Clyno 744 cc twin-cylinder motorcycles with sidecar and Vickers Machine Gun bsky.app/profile/this...

The Democratic Banner #OTD Jun 22 1915 publishes this photo of Ottoman barbed wire entanglements near Sedul Bahr, Cape Helles, #Gallipoli. In the background are warships of the Allied fleet chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88078... bsky.app/profile/this...

Bisbee Daily Review on Jun 22 1915 publishes photo "which shows Germans advancing against British trenches during the great war. In the foreground are British trenches manned by the King's Liverpool regiment. .... It will be noted that bayonets are fixed." bsky.app/profile/this...

Omaha Daily Bee Jul 23 1919 Japan's actions haunt President Wilson Jun 22 1915 China caught in Japanese web -- John T. McCutcheon Jul 11 1915 China should learn the manly art of self defense bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 22 1924 Frédéric Gadmer takes these autochrome photos in their original colour 102 years ago. They show the construction of Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, the world's largest French military cemetery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_D... bsky.app/profile/this...

Italy’s highest-scoring ACE pilot (With 34 victories) Francesco Baracca is defeated by Austro-Hungarian ground fire on Jun 19 1918. His mother presented his prancing stallion emblem, the Cavallino Rampante, to Enzo Ferrari, who used it as the #Ferrari car brand logo. bsky.app/profile/this...

East Oregonian : E.O. #OTD Jun 21 1915 "Here is the kind of shell the Austro-Germans are hurling against the Russian defenders of Lemberg, and the fall of that city is hourly expected. " chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88086... bsky.app/profile/this...

3 stories from El Paso Herald #OTD Jun 21 1915: Christiaan de Wet (pictured) guilty of treason for Maritz Rebellion in South Africa German Airship Crew, probably Zeppelin LZ 24 (L 3) crew (pic) attempted to escape from Danish POW camp Anti-German mobs in Russia destroy 200 factories and stores

June 20, 1926: The Tour de France of bicycling starts on the road from Évian to Mulhouse. Belgium's Jules Buysse is seen passing a cow on his way to winning the stage by 13 minutes.

At Ecoivres, France, official war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes these photos of a Horse show organised by the XIII British Corps. Sports include horse wrestling, jumping and tent pegging. bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 20 1916 SE of Remaugies, a Senegalese, 62nd Bn Tirailleur, and his coupe-coupe machete. Colourized by Memento Jun 16 1917 In Saint-Ulrich, Paul Castelnau takes these colour photos Daily Sketch Jul 10 1916 French colonial Senegalese troops trying on gas masks. bsky.app/profile/this...

NYC paper The Sun on Jun 20 1915 publishes this Henry Reuterdahl painting of US battleships under fire. The caption claims it was most valuable painting and that it stayed aboard the USS New Jersey (BB-16) as it toured the world. Has anyone ever seen or heard of original? bsky.app/profile/this...

Illustrated War News Jun 20 1917 covers the new French Saint-Chamond Tank "The newer type, heavily gunned, extra stoutly armoured, and of bulkier dimensions ... their achievements were described as being in every regard "most successful" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-C... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Prince George’s Enquirer and Southern Maryland Advertiser #OTD Jun 20 1919 publishes this image of two new lambs on the lawn of the White House. They were named George and Martha Washington by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89060... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Seattle Star on Mar 18 1915 publishes what seems to have become a tourist attraction, a dead horse blown into a tree. "Power of the French field gun shells ... force of the shot ... lifted the fore half of the carcass into the tree" Jun 19 1915 Le Flambeau Pégase avait des ailes

Jun 19 1917 #OTD At the Swiss border with France near Pfetterhouse, Haut-Rhin, Alsace,Paul Castelnau takes these colour autochrome photos 106 years ago. They show Swiss and French soldiers guarding a fenced off border. A12072, A12073, A12074 bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 19 1917 #OTD At the Swiss border with France near Pfetterhouse, Haut-Rhin, Alsace,Paul Castelnau takes these colour autochrome photos 106 years ago. Swiss and French soldiers guarding fenced off border. A12070, A12071 Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 19 195 Illustrated London News prints this H. W. Koekkoek illustration from a drawing by Frederic Villiers. It shows French soldiers wearing make shift gas masks attacking a fortified farmhouse "whose walls and outbuildings are of stone, and enormously strong." bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 17 1918 At the Serny aerodrome, in France, official war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of a commander of No. 22 Squadron talking to the squadron's parrot mascot and Bristol Fighters in a mock dogfight.

Chickasha Daily Express Jun 17 1916 "Turkish boys...sons of Turkish officers who fell in battle, being trained at the military school at Moda, Asia Minor. The youngsters are shown, fully equipped with, arms, marching beneath their standard, and to the tune of their own band" bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal - Jun 17 1917 They murder ships Ils assassinent les naufrages gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... bsky.app/profile/this...

New York Times Jun 17 1917 "Miss Dolores Francis One of Six California Girls Who Have Offered Their Airplane and Their Service ae Pilot to the Federal Government for Coast Patrol Service" www.loc.gov/resource/sn7... bsky.app/profile/this...

1915 Ernest Brooks photo of a British sailor photographed in one of the 15 inch guns of HMS Queen Elizabeth New-York Tribune Jun 17 1917 USS Oklahoma "triplets" Cat mascot of the light cruiser HMAS Encounter, in the muzzle of a 6 inch gun bsky.app/profile/this...

Excellent episode of the Old Front Line podcast hosted by Paul Reed. Featured is historian Tom Isitt and his new book – Thunder in the Mountains. They discuss the battles in the mountains of northern Italy.

This newsreel clip, IWM IWM 243 (filmed Jun 15-17 1918) shows a Vickers machine gun team at the Machine Gun Corps Training School at Rombly, France, demonstrating anti-aircraft machine gun fire iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Illustrated War News Jun 16 1915 "Both 'racket-petards' a dozen of which each man in the advance storming-parties carried at his waist-belt ... and "bracelet-grenades" did telling work at the storming of the Notre Dame de Lorette fortifications, north of Ypres, on May 21." bsky.app/profile/this...

The Sphere Jun 16 1917 illustration by Fortunino Matania shows British troops fighting hand-to-hand during the storming of Heudicourt Village bsky.app/profile/this...

Soviet Hungarian communist state (Red on the map) tries to export its revolution by setting up the Slovak Soviet Republic (pink on the map) on Jun 16 1919. It lasted just a few weeks before being crushed by Czechoslovak forces on Jul 7 1919 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_... bsky.app/profile/this...

New-York Tribune on Jun 16 1918 of #WWI mascots. Jul 18 1917 #OTD at the 33rd Division Horse Show at Cavillon, France, war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes these photos (IWM Q 5690 & IWM Q 5691) of the white goat mascot of the 2nd Bn, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. July 18 bsky.app/profile/this...

NZ Truth Jul 29 1916 Pg 7 Germany pauses unrestricted submarine warfare Jun 16 1917 U-Boat Stills U.S. Guns. Tank Ship Sunk In A Thrilling 2 Hour Battle. Exchange 350 Shots Jul 10 1915 John T McCutcheon: The Girl (Statue of Liberty) He Leaves Behind bsky.app/profile/this...

Illustrated London News #OTD Aug 14 1915 publishes this Arthur Cadwgan Michael illustration of Liverpool Scottish and other regiments charging with "splendid dash and courage, took place, after a preparatory bombardment, in the early hours of" Jun 16 1915 bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 16 1917 Frontline trench, soldiers with a Chauchat machine gun, Hirtzbach, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France, A 12 045 Aug 29 1918 American troops manning a Chauchat 1915 model machine gun. Nov 11 1918 French Fusiliers manning a Chauchat LMG in Oudenaarde, Belgium bsky.app/profile/this...

The Pickens Sentinel Nov 19 1914 publishes this Sid Greene cartoon of the God of War getting ready to "shave" Italy. Grand Forks Herald Jun 16 1919 publishes this cartoon by William Charles Morris talking about the dismemberment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 15 1917 Paul Castelnau autochrome photos 109 years ago in their original colour. They show a fortified HQ and a camouflaged road in Dannemarie, France. Also, French colonial Senegalese soldier with a colonial sergeant Dia Bagou (Sénégalais. race Bombaro [bambara]) classe 1912 - à Montreux Vieux

Jun 14 1916 Near Dickebusch, Belgium, war photographer Ernest Brooks takes these photos of a 12 inch howitzer (Mark I) on railway mounting of the 89th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery bsky.app/profile/this...

The Queenslander Pictorial #OnThisDay Jun 14 1919 publishes pictures of the 1919 Berlin Spartacist Uprising. An armoured car (maybe Peerless armoured car?) with a sign "Take care, stay in your houses. In the street danger to life because we are shooting" bsky.app/profile/this...

Flag Day Lone Scout, The Real Boys Magazine, Jun 14 1916, Perry Emerson Thompson NZ Free Lance Jun 16 1916 The champion liar of the world bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 14 1917 140th flag day, 1777-1917 The birthday of the stars and stripes, June 14th, 1917 #FlagDay Cartoonist Elmer Andrews Bushnell creates this American flag in the Topeka State Journal on Jun 14 1919 bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 14 1915 Illustrated London News: Fight which has given "Blue Devils" a new name Jun 14 1915 they had become surrounded. With no ammo they resorted to rolling stones down on advancing enemy. Apr 30 1918 Bertrand Albert of famous Blue Devils and his US Pal Milton Willard bsky.app/profile/this...