Zweibund — the Dual Alliance — Germany and Austria-Hungary united, were the core of the Central Powers, and here join hands. The bars of Germany's flag border the top left, and those of the Habsburg Austrian Empire and ruling house the bottom right.
Schulter an SchulterUntrennbar vereintin Freud und in Leid!'Shoulder to shoulderInseparably united in joy and in sorrow!
"A man is down! He was under the wheels of a gun-carriage! A flash of a white face — a cry above the confusion — that was all; we still clattered along and the gun-carriage pressed forward without heed. Here, indeed, was the law of the primitive world, the survival of the fittest! To fall was to be crushed, abandoned, and to die, while the swollen tide of wheels and feet swept on and on in fitful, passionate fury, engulfing horse or human which impeded its passage. And ever the lazy, threatening drone of enemy planes sounded in our ears silenced only the quick, sharp bark of enemy shells at our heels."
A late June 1915 excerpt from the diary of Frances Farmborough, and English nurse serving with the Russian Army. She and her unit were part of the great Russian retreat in 1915, driven back by the combined German and Austro-Hungarian Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive. Farmborough's unit sets up intermittently, then is driven on again, amidst refugees and units of the Russian army.
Nurse at the Russian Front, a Diary 1914-18 by Florence Farmborough, page 85, copyright © 1974 by Florence Farmborough, publisher: Constable and Company Limited, publication date: 1974
1915-06-28, shell, plane, airplane, 1915, June, Gorlice-Tarnow, Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, Farmborough
