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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 18h

The Daily Gate City Oct 13 1914 Trial of 22 people on charges of high treason and conspiracy in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The 3 main defendants are Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabes aned Nideljko Cabrinovic
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 18h

Sep 20 1918 In the North Sea, a photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 20257, of the American American minelayer USS San Francisco.

September 20 1918-09-20
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Sep 20 1918 #OTD In the North Sea, a photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 20257, of the American American minelayer USS San Francisco.

September 20 1918-09-20
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 18h

Oct 14 1918 #OTD Corporal Edward J Marz rushed over open ground and took out a German machine gun, killing 2, allowing his platoon to advance. Part of America’s Immortals from Evening Public Ledger on Apr 29 1919

Right: Poster by J. C. Leyendecker, 1918
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 18h

Battle of Passchendaele Jul 31 – Nov 10 1917 in numbers
105 days of Battle
275,000 Allied causalities (average 2100 a day)
220,000 German causalities
90,000 bodies never id, 42,000 bodies lost www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/happe...

Battle of Passchendaele Jul 31 – Nov 10 1917
105 days of Battle
275,000 Allied causalities (average 2100 a day)
220,000 German causalities
90,000 bodies never id, 42,000 bodies lost https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/happened-battle-passchendaele/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_tw

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 18h

Tacoma Times Oct 14 915 "Very soon it will be possible for us to see each other at distances of thousands of miles; we shall be enabled to hear an opera, sermon or scientific lecture, and be visually present in all kinds of meeting and transactions without regard to where we ourselves happen to be"

The Tacoma Times Oct 14 915 "Very soon it will be possible for us to see each other at distances of thousands of miles; we shall be enabled to hear an opera, sermon or scientific lecture, and be visually present in all kinds of meeting and transactions without regard to where we ourselves happen to be at that time" https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88085187/1915-10-14/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.619,-0.155,2.238,1.019,0

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 18h

Evening Star Oct 14 1915 prints this Clifford Berryman cartoon showing the neutral Greeks sitting out of the war while their neighbours have all joined the fray.
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Evening Star Oct 14 1915 prints this Clifford Berryman cartoon showing the Greeks sitting out of the war while their neighbours have all joined the fray.
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Chicago Tribune Oct 14 1915 reports that the 5th shipment of gold and securities worth around $10,000,000 ($311,000,000 in 2025) is being shipped from London via Halifax to New York City in a single train car guarded by 4 armed men archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/10/14/p... bsky.app/profile/this...

Chicago Tribune Oct 14 1915 The 5th shipment of gold and securities worth around $10,000,000 ($311,000,000 in 2025) is being shipped from London via Halifax to New York City in a single train car guarded by 4 armed men http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/10/14/page/2

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

The Devils Lake World and Inter-Ocean Oct 14 1915 Herbert Hodge cartoon showing that the all powerful money is the true Emperor of all Kings and Kaisers. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Daily Gate City Oct 13 1914 Senegalese soldier Ooh La fought near Meaux where comrades "fought with bullets, knives, bayonets and fists, singing like devils, treating German bullets and shells as if they were only mosquitos." He killed 18 Germans before being wounded 9 times bsky.app/profile/this...

The Daily Gate City Oct 13 1914 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025182/1914-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.564,0.276,0.439,0.2,0
Senegalese soldier Ooh La fought near Meaux where his comrades "fought with bullets, knives, bayonets and fists, singing like devils, treating German bullets and shells as if they were only mosquitos." He killed 18 Germans before being wounded 9 times

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Oct 3-11 1914 shows Patrols in North Sea to prevent German warships from breaking out and attacking the Canadian convoy of 32 passenger liners bringing the Canadians to the UK. At the time it was the largest movement of men across Atlantic
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

1 year after assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Vojislav Tankosić and Black Hand group are blamed. He has been credited with training some of the assassins but Danilo Ilić is seen as the ringleader of the cell that included Gavrilo Princip, hitman of Franz Ferdinand. bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Rock Island Argus Oct 13 1914 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon showing German Kulltur www.loc.gov/resource/sn9... bsky.app/profile/this...

Rock Island Argus Oct 13 1914 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon showing German Kulltur https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053934/1914-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.243,0.163,0.929,0.423,0

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Aberdeen Herald Oct 13 1914 publishes this Edwin Marcus cartoon showing the dark figure of Famine rushing to war while the personification of peace cowers www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

Aberdeen Herald Oct 13 1914 publishes this Edwin Marcus cartoon showing Famine rushing to war while the personification of peace cowers https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093220/1914-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.509,0.513,0.192,0.087,0

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Oct 3 1914 Accompanied by Royal Navy warships 31 transports set off with Canadian soldiers to UK. Roger Litwiller writes that they were carrying about 30,000 soldiers, 7,600 horses, 70 guns, 110 vehicles and 705 horsed vehicles. Joined by SS Florizel with Newfoundland's unit bsky.app/profile/this...

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 19h

Rock Island Argus Oct 14 1914 reports that General Louis François Marcot, former governor of the famous French military school Sain Cyr, is KIA near Arras on Oct 4 1914. He was one of about 40 French generals who died in #WW1

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Rock Island Argus Oct 14 1914 General Louis François Marcot, former governor of the famous French military school Sain Cyr https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn92053934/1914-10-14/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.103,1.118,0.313,0.143,0
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 20h

Washington Times Oct 14 1914 1st time naval prize court existed since Crimean War. German ships seized include SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Belgia and Prince Adalbert.

UK offered Germany 14 days to get their merchant ships out of UK ports for same deal of UK ships in German ports but they refused

The Washington Times Oct 14 1914 First time a naval prize court existed since Crimean War. German ships seized include SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie (1906), Belgia and Prince Adalbert. British offered Germany 14 days to get their merchant ships out of Brit ports for same deal of Brit ships in German ports but they refused. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026749/1914-10-14/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.21,0.949,0.516,0.235,0

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 20h

El Paso Herald Oct 13 1914 German Count Schwerin able to fool French intelligence because he spoke fluent English. In a Prussian uniform that he claimed to have changed into after getting caught in rain, French believed him as they had already shot several Brit officers because they look Prussian.

El Paso Herald Oct 13 1914
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German Count Schwerin was able to able to fool French intelligence because he spoke fluent English. He was apprehended in a Prussian uniform that he had claimed to have changed into after getting caught in the rain. The Frenchman hesitated as the French had already shot several English officers because they look Prussian.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 21h

The original title of Tanks were HMLS "His Majesties Land Ships"

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 21h

El Paso Herald Oct 13 1915
"Two million men in Europe are without legs or arms; to be taught how to work"

German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm, "arrived in Austro-German HQs in Servia." Belgrade was occupied Oct 9 1915. The arrival of Bulgaria forced the Serbian Army on Great Retreat or Serbian Golgotha

El Paso Herald Oct 13 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88084272/1915-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1
"Two million men in Europe are without legs or arms; to be taught how to work"

German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, "has arrived in Austro-German HQs in Servia." Belgrade was occupied on Oct 9 1915. The arrival of Bulgaria forced the Serbian Army on Great Retreat.

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 21h

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Oct 13 1915 "Russia receiving munitions of war from Japan at a rate of 20 trainloads daily for more than three months." bsky.app/profile/this...

Honolulu Star-Bulletin Oct 13 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014682/1915-10-13/ed-2/?sp=1&r=0.54,0.724,0.534,0.243,0
Russia receiving munitions of war from Japan at a rate of 20 trainloads daily for more than three months.

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 22h

Chickasha Daily Express Oct 13 1915 "This photograph was taken at a crossroads near Ivangorod, Russia [a city on Estonia–Russia international border] while German officers were examining Russian soldiers that had been captured." bsky.app/profile/this...

Chickasha Daily Express Oct 13 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86090528/1915-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1
"This photograph was taken at a crossroads near Ivangorod, Russia [a city on Estonia–Russia international border] while German officers were examining Russian soldiers that had been captured."

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago Tribune Oct 13 1915 When a wounded man is about to die, hospital staff bring out THE SCREEN so they can die in peace. The newspaper cartoonist John T. McCutcheon adds this illustration bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 22h

Oct 13 1915 #OTD Imperial German Navy Zeppelins - L 13, L 14, L 15, L 16 and L 11 bomb London killing 71, and causing damage of £80, 020
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Oct 13 1915 #OTD Imperial German Navy Zeppelins - L 13, L 14, L 15, L 16 and L 11 bomb London killing 71, and causing damage of £80, 020
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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 22h

Seattle Star Oct 13 1915 Seattle resident Almar de Turenne, a French-Canadian immigrant, on what he saw on #WW1 battleground, including being gassed "It didn't kill them right away. They suffered awfully. They begged to be put out of their misery, AND SO WE SHOT THEM"
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Seattle Star Oct 13 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1915-10-13/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.103,0.081,1.417,0.645,0

Seattle resident Almar de Turenne, a French-Canadian immigrant, on what he saw on #WW1 battleground, including being gassed

HAD "I a taste of the Germans' gas. It was like yellow vapor. A little whiff of it made your nose and throat smart, but the poor devils in front didn't get little whiffs. It didn't kill them right away. They suffered awfully. They begged to be put out of their misery, AND SO WE SHOT THEM"- Almar de Turenne, Seattle veteran of the trenches. Read his story in today's paper.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 22h

Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Oct 23 1914 reports that the Kaiser's nephew, Prince Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg von Hessen was killed in Battle near Mt Descat on Oct 13 1914
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