Around 2 million soldiers, sailors and airmen came home with some level of disability: over 40,000 were amputees; some had facial disfigurement or had been blinded.Read more
Posts tagged: #War memorial
An introduction to ‘Thankful Villages’
In the First World War every village saw young people leave to serve their country. Over 700,000 Britons died, yet 53 village communities suffered no fatalities.Read more
6 things you may not know about POWs in England during the First World War
Prisoners were interned in hundreds of locations across England, ranging from purpose-built camps holding thousands of men, to locations that held just a few individuals. Read more
War memorials of the north: then & now
A mystery postcard collection documents the unveiling of local war memorials, with hundreds of people present. Each memorial represents a different tale of loss in a northern town.Read more
100 years of the Royal Air Force
The First World War was the first conflict in which aviation played a major role.Read more
8 Unusual war memorials
First World War memorials range from simple stone crosses to monumental bronzes; from village halls to Read more
Forgotten heroes of the First World War
The Labour Corps of the First World War comprised mostly of a multi-ethnic army of workers, without whom the war would have ground to a halt.Read more
A brief history of tanks
Today, 20 November 2017, marks the centenary of the first mass use of tanks in the First World War.Read more
Hidden in plain sight: echoes of the First World War
100 years on from the First World War, evidence of damage and loss can still be seen on our streets. Read more
7 Unusual War Memorials
The aftermath of the First World War saw a wave of public commemoration, sometimes in the form of quite unusual war memorials.Read more