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Jan 6 1915 #OTD Over 300,000 Italians watch the funeral for Lt Bruno Garibaldi, who died fighting for the French Foreign Legion (Garibaldi Legion or Italian Legion). French, British, Russian, Belgian and Serbian ambassadors attended the service https://t.co/ivOxo2DtGr
Apr 10 1917 War photographer John Warwick Brooke took a picture, IWM Q 6301, of "Lusitania" of the 1st Tank Brigade going forward along a ruined street in Arras. As C47 part of C Bn, 9th Company on Apr 10 1917 it was destroyed by a friendly fire incident
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New-York Tribune #OTD Dec 29 1918 publishes this Paul Thompson photo of soldiers by fire in Eagle Hut, Bryant Park. On the wall is Medieval French knight, Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard with the famous quote “sans peur et sans reproche” (without fear and beyond reproach)
The Saturday Evening Post #OTD Dec 29 1917
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The Saturday Evening Post - Dec 28 1918 Artwork done by J.C. Leyendecker
Dec 19 1916 “ Subject nationalities of the German alliance: from the Allies’ peace terms as stated in their reply to President Wilson’s note of” December 19 1916
Library of Congress Control Number: 2004628224 https://t.co/LRsiMSLNjs
Back view - Tank, 2701, D1 "Druid," D Bn, 10 Coy, 1 sec (Lt DJ Salmon)
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Sapper Ernest Beeby deserted and made his way to the coast before he was arrested. He was placed under arrest and sentenced to death. On the Somme at Albert #OTD Dec 9 1916 he became the 1st member of the Royal Engineers to be executed. https://t.co/05RBq56WYt @Proud_Sappers
On the left a real mounted skeleton of a Stegosaurus (nicknamed "Sophie") at the Natural History Museum, London
On the right The Tacoma Times #OTD Nov 29 1915 prints what 1915 scientists thought this dinosaur looked like https://t.co/chqpJFueJc