Mar 12 1918 At St. Julien, Belgium, war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes this photo, IWM Q 10718, of Army Service Corps, pushing a truck of ammunition along a light railway track from the shell dump to the guns www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... ,

Indiana, Pennsylvania newspaper The Patriot #OTD Mar 13 1915 published this photo of Canadian Cavalry Cheering King George V after a royal inspection at their camp on the Salisbury Plain chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85054... bsky.app/profile/this...

Illustrated London News Mar 13 1915 The Size of Germany's Air-Dreadnought Zeppelin's compared to Piccadilly, London bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 13 1920 Frédéric Gadmer takes these 105-year-old colour autochrome photos in the devastated region of Soissons, Aisne, France. A 20 598, A 20 586, A 20 588 13 mars 1920 Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine bsky.app/profile/this...

Illustrated London News Mar 13 1915 W.B. Robinson map showing attempts to force Dardanelles Strait Tulsa Daily World Mar 24 1915 maps the exploits of HMS Amethyst (1903) in trying to force the Dardanelles bsky.app/profile/this...

Fortunino Matania illustration Apr 10 1915 Sphere NY Tribune Sep 10 1914 Turco "brought back a German's head in his knapsack and he was angry when they took it away from him. He regarded it as his most precious souvenir, and they had to compensate him to keep him quiet " May 19 1915 Illustrated War

Illustrated War News Nov 18 1914 publishes painting by R. Caton Woodville. At Ramscapelle, near the Yser, dismounted Bengal Lancers attack German Trenches by charging with their lances #OTD Oct 24 1914 and then fighting house to house clearing Germans. gutenberg.org/files/18333/...

South Bend News-Times Mar 10 1916 "Archduchess Maria Theresa, of Austria, leader of one of the most exclusive social sets in Vienna ... At the beginning of the war [she got a nursing] diploma. She spends from 10 to 12 hours a day ministering to the wants of the wounded men." bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 1 - Mar 10 1916 Near Verdun, France, Stéphane Passet takes these autochrome photos in their original colour 110 years ago. They show a snow covered trench, a truck unloading its cargo and an informal butcher set up in the forest bsky.app/profile/this...

Apr 3 1927 Frédéric Gadmer photo, A53693S, of Shi'ite Islamic mosque and shrine, Al-Kadhimiya Mosque, located in Kādhimayn suburb of Baghdad, Iraq. Mar 11 1917 In Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Now in Iraq) British and Indian soldiers move through the city shortly after the entry by Gen Sir F S Maude

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMY_Mek... This is also a beautiful boat.

Louise Bazalgette early UK motorist. Present @ 1896 Emancipation Run when car owners celebrated being able to legally exceed 4 mph. Widely reported as woman who was making long trips in car. Only woman to enter 1900 3 week long Thousand Mile Trial. d. #OTD 9 Mar 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_...

Mar 1 - Mar 10 1916 Near Verdun, France, Stéphane Passet takes these autochrome photos in their original colour 110 years ago. They show a snow covered trench, a truck unloading its cargo and an informal butcher set up in the forest bsky.app/profile/this...

Corpus Christi Caller and Daily Herald #OTD Mar 10 1915 photo of a group of British Red Cross and St John's society nurses, doctors and orderlies on board Sir Thomas Lipton's (Of Lipton Tea fame) Yacht 'Erin' during a humanitarian mission to Serbia bsky.app/profile/this...

Bisbee Daily Review Mar 10 1915 publishes photo of French General Joseph Gallieni inspecting the troops. Caption says he is leading 400,000 Recruits to Battle front chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024... bsky.app/profile/this...

New York Times #OTD Mar 10 1918 publishes this picture, LC-DIG-hec-10452, of the Ordnance Department testing Light Browning Machine Gun, the "Most Effective Weapon of its Kind" on the Government Rifle Range at Congress Heights, Near Washington. bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 13 1915 #OTD In Artois region of France, Bengal Lancers returning from "Port Arthur" after capture of Neuve Chapelle during Battle of Neuve Chapelle (Mar 10-13 1915). Fortunino Matani Illustration was originally published in The Sphere mag. NYT map published May 1915 bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal - Mar 10 1918 Le conte de la grand mère mes enfants, il y avait une fois la guerre Once the war: The tale of the grandmother and her children Different machine guns of #WWI gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Seattle Star Mar 10 1916 "US Sailors in Mixup in Turk Port: German and American sailors have engaged in repeated street fights before the American embassy at Constantinople, according to a cable received by the Exchange Telegraph company today." bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 9 1918 At the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) Base Locomotive Shops at St. Etienne-du-Rouvray, war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes these photos (IWM Q 10767 - IWM Q 10768 - IWM Q 11558 ) including POW labour being used to build train engines

Mar 9 1918 At the French encampment at Oueida, near Ma'an, Arabia (Now in Jordan) shows Paul Castelnau autochrome photos in their original colour. Shown is a wealthy Bedouin wearing red and with image cleaned up by @babelcolour.bsky.social. Also photographed are Arab forces fighting Ottoman Empire

New York Times #OTD Mar 9 1915 reports that the famous London betting house, Brooks's Club, is taking wagers with 10 to 1 odds that the war will be over before 5 years. Historically bets were accepted on America's war of Independence timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Mar 9 1917 Paul Castelnau takes these autochrome photographs in their original colour 109 years ago. They show the ruined corridor of the former archbishop's palace, now the Palais de Tau, the cathedral from the operator's room and a half-timbered house, Place des Marchés (now Place du Forum)

Newsreel clip, IWM IWM 233, shows what appears to be a soldier surfing a British Female Tank. It appears to have the Female Sponsons but no steering wheels or unditching bars. The Mark IV Female tank also has flatter sponsons. bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 8 1917 Near Reims Cathedral, Paul Castelnau takes these photos of snow covered ruins of the chapel of the Convent of the Sisters of Reparation and bakers pushing their cart through the snow bsky.app/profile/this...

Chicago Tribune Mar 9 1915 publishes this John T. McCutcheon cartoon: Will neutrals join the War? Mar 8 1915 Is civilization reverting to the code of the cave man - John T. McCutcheon bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 17 1920 In Péronne, Frédéric Gadmer photo of British Mark IV Tank (s/n 2757) "Gordon" Jul 1920 Popular Mechanics Mark IV Tank Amusement ride Mar 8 1919 #OTD photographer captures tourists riding a Renault FT Tank. Girls of Smith College Northampton enjoy a Tank ride. bsky.app/profile/this...

This newsreel footage (IWM 420-13+14, IWM 452, IWM 1195) shows Tank training in #WW1. Footage shows both Male and Female Tanks advancing with smoke screens and infantry support. bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 7 1917 Fernand Cuville 109-year-old colour autochrome pictures of the ruins of Reims Cathedral in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France. The Subé fountain was built by André Najoux in 1906 thanks to August Subé bsky.app/profile/this...

Suffragist, Katherine Mary Harley helped to found the Women's Emergency Corps in #WW1. In Jun 1916 established ambulance unit attached to Royal Serbian Army. Mar 7 1917 In Monastir, Serbia, she was killed when the house she was in was shelled by the Bulgarians en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katheri...

Chickasha Daily Express on Mar 7 1916 publishes photo of "chapel, erected by Trench troops at the front in Champagne, is made entirety of sand bags, its priest is standing beside it, and within is seen the coffin of a dead soldier chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86090... bsky.app/profile/this...

Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Mar 7 1915: "No waste is permitted, as Germany feels the necessity of conserving the supply ... government inspector at the right of the picture is seen supervising the work, while the young apprentice next to him is stamping the initial K" on loaves bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 7 1915 Russia to supply Allies with wheat once Dardanelles straits open Rock Island Argus Mar 8 1915 Bob Satterfield cartoon "For the love of Allah, be Reasonable" Mar 6 1915 If Allah doesn't do something soon Allies will get us - John T. McCutcheon bsky.app/profile/this...

Washington Times Mar 7 1915 These US nurses off to war From Left to Right Florence Gordon, Mollie McGrath, Cathlyne O'Hanlon, Eugenia H. Lyons, Beda Laurentia Peterson, Alma Marie McCormick, Nellie Burdette Parsons, Ellen O'Hanlon, Dorothy O'Connell, Victoria Francfort. bsky.app/profile/this...

Pte James Briggs, 5231, 2nd Bn, Border Regiment deserted his post on Jan 20 1915. He made it all the way to the coast and had even stowed away on the transport ship La Havre when he was arrested. His unit was forced to watch his execution #OTD Mar 6 1915 books.google.ca/books?id=la6...

Mar 5 1918 Near St. Jean, looking back towards Ypres, official war photographer David McLellan takes this photo, IWM Q 8703, of a sunken and abandoned British tank submerged in mud and surrounded by shell-holes. 6 March 1918-03-06 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Chicago Tribune #OTD Mar 6 1915 publishes this photo, "German Taube on exhibition in Paris ... brought down by French gunners along the Aisne ... The picture gives and excellent idea of the distinctive bird shape adopted by the Germans" archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/03/06/p...

The Tacoma Times #OTD Mar 6 1916 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon The Detroit Times on Apr 13 1916 publishes this McBride cartoon titled "To The Highest Bidder." bsky.app/profile/this...

Amarillo Daily News #OTD Mar 6 1915 photo of prisoners knitting socks for soldiers. "New spirit has taken hold of the prisoners in New York State's prison at Sing Sing. It is a spirit of cooperation, a spirit that makes them forget that they are criminals" bsky.app/profile/this...

Evening Star Mar 8 1915 Dmitri Vassilieff dies in US. On behalf of Imperial Russia spent $100,000,000 ($ 3 Billion in 2025) on war materiel Daily Gate City Mar 6 1916 "For years it has been an unbroken rule of the American navy that no woman should be carried aboard a battleship at sea."

Mar 6 1917 Paul Castelnau takes the photo (top right) of ruins of Reims Cathedral in their original colour, 108 years ago. On the same day Fernand Cuville takes the other 2 photos including one of a fire fighting team that has been "cleaned-up" by @babelcolour.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/this...

New York Times on Mar 6 1915 on 72-year-old Lt-Gen Sir Pratap Singh (Pictured in 1st and 2nd pic) British Indian Army officer, and Maharaja of princely state of Idar fighting with his men on the #WesternFront. El Paso Herald Nov 12 1914 photo of an Indian Machine Gun Squad bsky.app/profile/this...

This newsreel footage, IWM IWM 1079, shows Americans demonstrating captured donut shaped Wechselapparat M.1917 (Wex) flamethrowers. Footage taken matches a photo (IWM Q 94318) taken on Mar 6 1918 of Wex flame throwers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsel... bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 5 1915 Paul Sarrut creates this image of Sikh Soldier Chattar Singh, 52nd Sikhs FF Calonne sur la Lys sikhmuseum.com/artofwar/por... bsky.app/profile/this...

Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Mar 5 1915 prints this picture of a 12 inch Imperial Austro-Hungarian Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 siege howitzer that fires 1000lb shells chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024... bsky.app/profile/this...

Evening Public Ledger Mar 5 1915 "picture is being enacted daily, but on a far larger scale, on the battlefield of Europe...victims of an encounter between ... French and German troops, are picked up on the battlefield and laid out in a row. French sappers are seen burying" bsky.app/profile/this...

Mar 5 1915 Impregnable Forts guarding Dardanelles Fall Before Onslaught of Anglo-French Fleet archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/03/05/p... bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal Mar 5 1916 Les Soldats Hindous de l'armee anglaise du golfe Persique. Hindu Soldiers of the British Army in the Persian Gulf. Têtes De Boches Défilé: de prisonnier conquise par nos troupes German Parade of conquered POWs gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... bsky.app/profile/this...

Illustrated London News Mar 5 1915 publishes this H.C Seppings-Wright image of Imperial Russian forces storming Austro-Hungarian positions on a Carpathian mountain top (Artist relates it to Spion Kop, a famous Boer War battle) Ragged peasants can be seen fleeing battleground bsky.app/profile/this...

Tulsa Daily World Mar 3 1915 Mine Barrier in the North Sea Chicago Tribune Mar 4 1915 Who will win her for his Ally? Chicago Tribune Mar 5 1915 John T. McCutcheon cartoon: Emperor Francis Joseph to use palace gardens to grow food for his people bsky.app/profile/this...