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Sep 1917 #OTD Deep in Marmolada (Marmolata) Glacier, soldiers of Austro-Hungarian Empire hide from Italian fire in “Ice City”. In these ice tunnels, soldiers had barracks, kitchens, hospitals and even chapels
ÖNB Digital ID: 4811485, 4811497, 15428250 - Colourized by huey.colors
@RevdPye @militaryhistori @pirateirwin @GilesMacDonogh @MargyMayell @MandeepBajwa @AC_NavalHistory @AntoineVanner @LucyLondon7 @MalcolmCGodfrey German aerial photographs (IWM Q 20648B & IWM Q 67725) of the Block ships (HMS Intrepid, HMS Iphigenia and HMS Thetis) that were deliberately sunk during the Zeebrugge Raid
IWM Q 18887 shows the condition of HMS Vindictive returning to Dover under her own steam after the Raid
Aug 30 1918 #OTD Russian reactionary Fanny Kaplan shot Lenin 3 times at a Moscow factory. Viewed #Lenin as a "traitor to the revolution."
Vladimir Pchelin's painting of the assassination attempt
Executed on Sep 3 1918, she was 28
https://t.co/5TBKYXbKlf https://t.co/e7Kk1dtyrB
Aug 29 1916 At Pont-Arcy, France, this photo, IWM Q 49094, shows a #Poilu using a periscope attachment fitted to the butt of his rifle. Colourized by Nicola Pozza
Apr 1915 In Bois d'Ailly, Meuse, Poilu operating a periscope rifle, colourized by Irootoko Jr https://t.co/GtwiG8c49I
Aug 13 1918 #OTD King George V inspects HMS Marshal Soult. The British warship was named after the French General of the Napoleonic Wars, Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult. Famous for looting Europe's art and for the creation of the French Foreign Legion (flag) https://t.co/3zEHeXMvRL
Colliers Magazine #OTD Aug 12 1916 publishes this Herbert Paus Cover Art
What a sub commander sees when he looks through the 360 degree Panoramic Periscope appears in Scientific American Supplement Oct 23 1915, page 269 https://t.co/qKSpO4TyAG
@RevdPye @militaryhistori @oldtoonloon @MargyMayell @pirateirwin @GilesMacDonogh @AndrewJMullen @MandeepBajwa @MalcolmCGodfrey @LucyLondon7 Some of the records concerning her trial and execution were sealed by the French government for 100 years, only being published in 2017. Washington Post’s Rachel Siege reports these documents have largely exonerated her. Colourized by @marinamaral2 https://t.co/zoUdXMLCG4
Captain Kenneth Keith Forbes paints this scene, CWM 19710261-0142, of a Canadian 6 in howitzer supporting British troops in the attack on Thiepval #OTD Jul 16 1916, during the Somme offensive. Note lack of ear protection, causing deafness in many #WWI vets https://t.co/nYtddoTvsv
@RevdPye @GilesMacDonogh @LucyLondon7 @MargyMayell @pirateirwin @Brussels1418 @AndrewJMullen @GreatWarGroup @MandeepBajwa @DimitarBechev Earlier in #WWI Bulgaria had stabbed Serbia in the back and joined the Empires of Germany and Austro-Hungary in attacking Serbia. This is portrayed in this Oct 6 1915 @PunchCartoons
Jun 26 1918 #OTD Near Pernes, David McLellan takes these photos of a former London double-decker bus (B.2125), camouflage painted, converted to a travelling loft for carrier pigeons.
IWM Q 9000, IWM Q 8998
IWM Q 8999 - Colorization by In the Company of Huskies
26 June 1918-06-26