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In July 1915, British and German forces fought three engagements in Hooge, a village near Ypres with a destroyed chateau held by the Germans, and its stables held by the British. A British mine on July 19 opened a crater 120 feet across. On July 30, the Germans attacked with flamethrowers, the first time the British had faced the weapon. Map from Military Operations France and Belgium, 1915, Vol. II, by Brigadier-General J.E. Edmonds and Captain G.C. Wynne. Map by Major A.F. Becke R.A. (Retired) Hon. M.A. (Oxon.) |
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Hooge, 30th and 31st July 1915.
The Liquid-Fire Attack
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German Front Line before the Attack
German Front Line at the close of the Action
British trenches, captured or evacuated
British Front Line at the close of the Action
British trenches
Unoccupied crater |
1915-07-22, 1915-07-19, 1915, July, Military Operations, Military Operations 1915 Vol. II, Edmonds, Battle of Hooge, Hooge, J.E. Edmonds, Edmonds |
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The Tiroler Volksbund — the Tyrolian People's League — kicking Italian irredentists out of the region. Bozen, Trient, and Gatren See are now Bolzano, Trento, and Lago di Garda, Italy. Die Sieben Gemeinden — the Seven Churches — was a German-speaking enclave on the Asiago plateau, and included the town of Asiago. |
Die deutsche grenze treu gewahrt
Das ist der Deutsch-Tiroler Part!
Tiroler Volksbund
Die sieben Gemeinden
The German border faithfully preserved
That is the German-Tyrolean's Part!
Tyrolean People's League
the Seven Churches
irredenta
Tiroler Volksbund
Die sieben Gemeinden
1915
Druck, Wagner, Innsbruck
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Der Tiroler Volksbund den Truppen in Tirols Bergen
Es gab kein 'Trentino' und wird nie eines geben!
The Tyrolean People's League of the troops in the Tyrol Mountains
There was no 'Trentino' and will never be one! |
irredentist, Italy, boot, Trentino, Trento, Tyrol, 1915-08-04, 1916-06-25, Tyrolia, Tiroler Volksbund, Tyrolian People's League |
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Woman cooking for Belgian soldiers on the Yser River. On October 28, 1914, the Belgians had opened the floodgates of the Yser River, inundating the low farmland from Dixmude to the Channel in front of their part of the line. |
En Guerre - Sur l'Yser
Femme Faisant la cuisine des Belges
The War - On the Yser
Woman cooking for the Belgians
Logo: L.V.C. on Belgian flag
D.1.
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Série D No. 1
En Guerre - Sur l'Yser, Femme Faisant la cuisine des Belges
The War - On the Yser, Woman cooking for the Belgians |
Yser, Yser River, Belgian Army, Belgian soldier, woman, women, child |
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Refugees in Van, Armenian Turkey, crowding around a public oven in hopes of getting bread. Photograph from 'Ambassador Morgenthau's Story' by Henry Morgenthau, Formerly American Ambassador to Turkey from 1913 to 1916. The Ambassador made repeated attempts during 1915 to convince the rulers of Turkey, particularly Interior Minister Talaat and War Minister Enver, to spare the Armenian population. |
Refugees at Van crowding around a public oven, hoping to get bread
These people were torn from their homes almost without warning, and started into the desert. Thousands of children and women as well as men died on these forced journeys, not only from hunger and exposure, but also from the inhuman cruelty of their guards. |
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Morgenthau's Story, Henry Morgenthau, Morgenthau, Turkey, Ambassador, refugee, refugees, Van, Armenia, Armenians, 1915, 1915-08-03, Turkey Turns on its Armenian Citizens |
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Beneath 'a shining vision' of a crowned Italy, an officer reads the news to his men. |
La fulgida visione
The shining vision |
Italy, crown, shining vision, 1915-08-01, Italian soldier, Italian Army |