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Austro-Hungarian sailors manning a 7 cm Škoda anti-aircraft gun aboard a naval vessel. All the sailors are wearing captured Italian Adrian helmets. Also note that one of the men is wearing a gas mask.

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2020-04-07

Fighting on the snow does have some advantages! For example, when one's hands are busy operating an artillery piece, the snow acts as a perfect holder for one's pipe 😆

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2020-04-06

Balkanization occured not because of the fall of the Ottoman Empire after WWI, but because they couldn't see eye to eye on each other's fetishes. Honestly surprised that Serbia and Macedonia can even come to an agreement like this.

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2020-04-06

Austro-Hungarian soldiers pose with hares shot on a hunt behind the front, 5 December 1917. Photo was probably taken near Cervignano, Italy.

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2020-04-01

Mar 30 1919
A Night Bombardment "By Lieutenant Henri Farré ... Nothing spreads such terror as a night bombardment - the terror being out of all proportion to the casualties inflicted. "

https://t.co/c9ZFhqNA97

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2020-03-31

Something interesting: A column of camels pass an Austro-Hungarian army lorry, possibly on the Gallipoli Front.

The caption to this wonderful photo reads: "The most modern and oldest means of transport"

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2020-03-30

Read the full story of how our fledgling University was affected by the First World War and its visible legacy around campus through our Digital Exhibition, University’s at War - https://t.co/VHSw9Fj8bR

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2020-03-27

Legionnaires of the Austro-Hungarian Polish Legions man an old 7 cm Mountain Gun M.75 in the Gorgany mountains, 1915.

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2020-03-26

Did you know, the University gave up many of its buildings to become a military hospital during These photographs show staff & wounded servicemen in places still recognisable around campus. Can you identify them? Answers later this afternoon!

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2020-03-26

Something interesting: A group of Austro-Hungarian sailors pose for a photo with a large skate on the deck of a navy vessel in the Adriatic.

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2020-03-25

Austro-Hungarian ace (10 victories) Raoul Stojsavljević with his Hansa-Brandenburg D.I, 1917. Stojsavljević flew even before the war, and in 1913 he participated in the first flight over the Alps. He was killed in an crash in 1930.

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2020-03-24

Though once described as a 'lovely Easter egg with nothing inside', Lady Helen Vincent proved herself a woman of great worth. She worked as an assistant anaesthetist and nurse during WWI, and wrote a book chronicling the Red Cross efforts in Germany (pub 1946).

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2020-03-25

Austro-Hungarian troops manning a 3.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz (Infantry Gun) M.15, 1917.

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2020-03-24

‘Enemy Alien’ is based on the memoir of a socialist Ukrainian who emigrated to Canada in the 1910s and was locked up in an internment camp by the Canadian government during WWI, then as a forced labourer for Dominion Steel out in Nova Scotia.

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2020-03-25

Two fez-wearing Austro-Hungarian 'Bosniaken' with a lamb in Galicia, 1914. The caption to this wonderful photo reads: "Before Przemyśl. Mohamed with lamb."

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2020-03-24

Growing up in WWI, and women still without the right to vote, May Sinclair writes the story of Dorothy, who ends up joining a version of the Women's Social and Political Union. 🙌

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2020-03-24

Irish WWI poster: Is Your Home Worth Fighting For?

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2020-03-24

mods are asleep post weird high concept wwi macbeth

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2020-03-24