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...

Dec 31 1917 #OTD During Sinai and Palestine campaign, Frank Hurley takes photo (colour P03631.087 - B&W B01697) of 4 men of 3rd Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron in action at Khurbetha-Ibn (Kharbatha Bani Harith, West Bank) Colour photo was created via Paget system bsky.app/profile/this...

Dec 29 1917 AWM B02040 Maj Syd Addison and Lt Hudson Fysh, of Australian Flying Corps, in Bristol Fighter at Mejdel, Palestine And Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited, QANTAS Colourized by Colours of Yesterday www.awm.gov.au/collection/C... bsky.app/profile/this...

Hickory daily record #OTD Dec 31 1919 publishes photo of József Cserny and infamous Lenin Boys. Captioned as Russian but Cserny and the Lenin Boys were in the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic. They brutally suppressed opposition to its communist state en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin_B...

The Daily Times, Wilson, North Carolina, Dec 31 1918 reports that the total cost of #ww1, for the United States is $25 billion ($523 billion in 2025) www.loc.gov/resource/sn9... bsky.app/profile/this...

Christchurch, NZ, newspaper Star Dec 30 1916 prints this cartoon of the Kaiser with Kite of Peace that a too short tail NZ Truth Dec 30 1916 prints this cartoon of British PM David Lloyd George lecturing the Empire on sacrifice

The Pickens Sentinel Dec 31 1914 publishes this cartoon of a crucifix overlooking a German soldier with Pickelhaube helmet fighting another soldier www.loc.gov/resource/sn9... bsky.app/profile/this...

Dec 22 1914 Norwegian cargo ship SS Boston en route from Drammen, Norway to London with a cargo of wood, struck at least 1 mine laid by German warship SMS Kolberg laid Dec 15 1914. Drifted and wrecked just below cliffs of Filey, Yorkshire. Deemed total loss and scrapped at Filey Brigg

Dec 31 1917 An Austro-Hungarian photographer takes these three photos that create this Panorama from Presanella-Belvedere Titel: Presenaspitze: Panorama von Presanella-Belvedere. (2. Teilbild.) Datierung: 31.12.1917 bsky.app/profile/this...

The Maria Theresa Memorial commemorates Empress Maria Theresa, who ruled the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 to 1780. An Austro-Hungarian photographer takes this photo of the monument on Dec 28 1917 Wien 1, Maria-Theresien-Denkmal Datierung 1917 · 28.12.1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_T...

Die Muskete was a humorous weekly magazine published every Thursday in Vienna. Here are 2 pages Dec 30 1915 and Dec 16 1915

Dec 31 1916 Austro-Hungarian photographer takes this photo: Karlshöhe bei Sopron/Ödenburg Person Stögermayer, Karl Datierung 31.12.1916 onb.digital/result/10BA8...

Grigori Rasputin is assassinated by poison, blunt force, & bullets #OTD Dec 30 1916 (Dec 17 Russian calendar) body dumped in a river. Life and patronage by Russian Czar's family led to fascination and multiple films en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori... bsky.app/profile/this... @marinamaral.bsky.social

Illustrated War News Dec 30 1914 publishes this Frédèric de Haenen illustration of Serbs taking back Belgrade and chase Austrians out of Serbia bsky.app/profile/this...

Photo#: NH 65118 - USS Oskawa (ID# 3797) "Photographed on a trial trip on [Dec 29 1918]. Built by the Moore Shipbuilding Company of Oakland, California, she was in commission from January to February 1919" US Naval Historical Center Photograph ibiblio.org/hyperwar/Onl... bsky.app/profile/this...

Dec 30 1916 NZ Observer A man in trouble: After not being saluted an officer asks "What company do you belong to?" to which the Private replies "Er—the, Gas Company, please, sir?" paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/T... bsky.app/profile/this...

NZ paper Free Lance Dec 29 1916 "There is intense indignation in England at President Wilson's peace message.—Cable news,' Prime Minister Lloyd George : Hi, there, —you with the type-writer,—get out of the way or you'll be run down. This is my .busy day." paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/f...

The Missouri newspaper Cape Weekly Tribune Oct 16 1914 reports that a Red Cross train has crashed into the Marne river after Germans bomb the Mary Bridge. Many wounded, killed. Stereoscope of crash. Library of Congress Control ID: 2015651878 bsky.app/profile/this...

Daily Telegraph #OTD Dec 30 1914 UK soldier dived in icy Seine to save woman who heard incorrect report that lover was KIA German clergy claim "Germans are innocent of this war but in Germany as well the war has revealed great moral defects and a serious falling-off in ethical and religious life"

Rock Island Argus Dec 30 1914 "Express train running at high speed and carrying many soldiers ... was wrecked near Stengel, Germany, when it crashed into the rear end of a freight train. The cars of the passenger train telescoped and were totally wrecked" Many Germans killed bsky.app/profile/this...

🧵1/2 To fight Soviets, Special Service Force recruited Canadian Royce Dyer to run anti-Soviet unit of Russians, the Slavo-British Allied Legion (SBAL) which invaded Russia with Allies at Arkhangelsk. SBAL loved Dyer & renamed it Dyer's Battalion. He died Dec 30 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_C...

The Sphere Magazine Dec 30 1916 Brits get Xmas packages at the front lines Illustrated War News #OTD Dec 30 1914 Germans thrilled to get Xmas packages Arizona Republican Dec 21 1914 Americans sending "Lafayette kits" of winter clothing, handkerchiefs, abdominal belt and soap to French soldiers

Dec 30 1916 NZ Truth Can Peace stop Wars unending push to destruction? paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/N...

Illustrated War News #OTD Dec 30 1914 prints this photo of German soldiers in "rabbit warrens" made in the trenches along the Argonne front lines to protect from artillery bombardments gutenberg.org/files/18334/...

Madison Journal #OTD Dec 30 1916: photo of "typical 'poilu' as the French private is known ... is shown in full winter equipment [in Verdun] where thousands of this type are battling with the Germans despite the inclement weather." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064...

Omaha daily bee #OTD Dec 30 1914 publishes this touched up picture of Austro-Hungarian soldiers with heads just barely sticking up out of snow. Dugouts are on crest of the Carpathian mountains 2nd pic published Polish paper Dziennik Chicagoski Dec 28 1914 3rd pic is original bsky.app/profile/this...

Illustrated War News #OTD Dec 30 1914 publishes the portraits of 3 Scandavian Kings: (1) King Haakon of Norway (2) King Gustav of Sweden (3) King Christian of Denmark who are meeting in Malmö. It is the first meeting since Norway and Sweden’s “divorce.” The 3 align to make a statement of neutrality

Daily Telegraph Oct 29 1914 London Bus service is cancelled as buses are moved to France Nov 6 1914 Christopher Pilkington photo of the 2nd Bn, Royal Warwickshire Reg Illustrated War News Dec 30 1914 publishes this picture of German forces with their captured "Londoner" Doubledecker Bus, D219

Seattle Star Nov 3 1914 Frenchman sold out comrades for 100 francs ($600 in 2024) Democratic Banner Sep 21 1915 "Spy Executed ...in Canada of Trnst Sackl ... was accused of being a German spy" executed Jun 18 1915 near Toronto Illustrated War News Dec 30 1914 Suspected German spy arrested, hooded

Fun fact: TNT was originally synthesised for use as a dyestuff, and it was nearly three decades before anybody discovered its explosive potential. Can you imagine staring at the smoking crater where your vat of yellow dye was, wondering what the fuck just happened?

Amazing to think that the mechanised death of WW1 was fuelled by the likes of Doris here, walloping TNT into a shell casing with a wooden mallet.