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Remembering WWI through interesting events that happened OTD during WWI.

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 5h ago

Aug 5 1922 In Vassogne, Aisne, France, Roger Dumas takes these autochrome in their original colour photos 104 years ago. They show the rubble of the village church bsky.app/profile/this... ,

France, Vassogne, Eglise de Vassogne

05/08/1922 - 05/08/1922

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Numéro d'inventaire
A33387 https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-vassogne-eglise-de-vassogne/617a7a45cf8b8968b338877a?q=A33387&pos=1&pgn=0

France, Vassogne, Ruines de l'Eglise

05/08/1922 - 05/08/1922

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Numéro d'inventaire
A33183 https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-vassogne-ruines-de-l-eglise/617a7a45cf8b8968b3388731?q=A33183&pos=1&pgn=0

France, Vassogne, Un Coin de Vassogne vu près de l'Eglise

05/08/1922 - 05/08/1922

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A33388X https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-vassogne-un-coin-de-vassogne-vu-pres-de-l-eglise/617a7a45cf8b8968b338877b?q=A33388X&pos=1&pgn=0

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May 19 1920 Frédéric Gadmer takes this autochrome photo, A21408, of a British Female Mark IV Tank (s/n 2632). On Sep 6 1918 Under command of Cpl Walker it returned to Monument wood bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 5h ago

Aug 5 1916 Near St. Leger aux Bois, France, French official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 49083, Gunners of the Royal Field Artillery manning a 18 pounder in a bunker wearing gas masks and shrapnel helmets. 5 August 1916-08-05 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... bsky.app/profile/this...

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Popular Science Monthly V88 D087 1916 publishes this photo of a French soldier wearing a gas mask. The "Agent de Liason" - French Soldier designated as a Liason agent, or telephone operator https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Popular_Science_Monthly_illustrations/Volume_88

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New York Times #OTD Aug 5 1917 publishes this photo of an armoured train with the caption, "Another reaper appears upon this harvest field behind the lines in France" August 5 1917-08-05 bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 2y ago

Bismarck Daily Tribune on Sep 24 1915 Austro-Hungarian armoured train Illustrated War News #OTD Dec 30 1914 Armoured train cars that were key in British victory over South African rebels at Bloemfontein. Omaha Daily Bee on Nov 5 1914 British Armored Train near Ypres, with projecting rifles

Bismarck Daily Tribune #OTD Sep 24 1915
"Each day of the war the ingenuity of the fighting armies is taxed for some new invention, some new appliance or some new method of handling an old appliance. The many inventions which have been born of the war are remarkable. Though armored trains have been used almost since the beginning of steam railroads the Austrians devised this new method of use. They planted a modern rapid fire gun behind an armored plate on the rear end of the locomotive and used it with telling success against the Russians in Galicia. Now many more engines are being equipped in similar manner." https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042242/1915-09-24/ed-1/seq-1/

IWM Q 53733 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205286997

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

New-York Tribune #OTD Aug 5 1917 photo of Colonel Ironsides, 4th Canadian Div and his dog Gibby. Originally photographed by official Canadian photographer William Rider-Rider in Jun 1917. After news Gibby was gassed a girl sent money for canine gas mask bsky.app/profile/this...

Item no. (creator): O-1495
Item ID number: 3217049
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=3217049&q=3217049
"Colonel Ironsides [i.e. Ironside], G.S.O. I, 4th Canadian Division and his dog "Gibby""
June, 1917

Item no. (creator): O-2146
Item ID number: 3522064
"General Watson and Staff, 4th Canadian Division. October, 1917"
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=3522064&q=%22O-2146%22

New-York tribune Aug 5 1917
Gibly, mascot of a Canadian regiment, shown above with his commanding officer, has been badly gassed twice, but still goes into action with his admiring brothers in Canadian Off.

General Pershing is being shown how the French are piling up ammunition for the next big offensive. Proud officials escort him through a great shell fac- tory in Paris. Int. Film Serv.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1917-08-05/ed-1/?sp=7&r=-0.028,0.303,0.474,0.216,0

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

War Dogs of #WW1. Belgians entered the war with a special dog breed, the Belgian Mastiff, that was developed by its military. Washington Herald Aug 3 1919, reported 10,000 war dogs were discharged by the military. The War Dog program and the breed is thought to be extinct or near extinct

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Aug 5 1915 In Merville, France, H. D. Girdwood takes this photo of Indian Corps Signal Section putting up a telegraph line commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In... bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 5 1915 In Merville, France, H. D. Girdwood takes this photo of Indian Corps Signal Section putting up a telegraph line https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_Corps_Signal_Section_putting_up_a_telegraph_line_(Photo_24-246).jpg

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Mar 5 1915 Paul Sarrut creates this image of Sikh Soldier Chattar Singh, 52nd Sikhs FF Calonne sur la Lys sikhmuseum.com/artofwar/por... bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

New Zealand newspaper NZ Truth on Aug 5 1916, Page 3, publishes these cartoons: bsky.app/profile/this...

While the Russians have been sweeping everything before them m Galtcia, the Italian offensive m the Trentino has been equally successful. — Cablecram. ■ •

Poor Joe is never out of trouble, And now, you see, he's struck a double; Or, rather, as it seems to Joe, He's knocked out by a double blow. The Russians chase him from the north. While south, Italians drive him forth. Between the two he fares so badly. That now of death he's thinking sadly.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/nz-truth/1916/08/05/3

The great advance by a terrific bombardment from the British lines, which had the effect of "rattling" the German troops. — Cablecram.

At last the day of days arrives, For which we've all been waiting, And Bull begins the last big fight With no more hesitating. He's got the men, he's got the guns, For which so long he battled; • . And now his endless stream of shells Has got the Huns well rattled.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/nz-truth/1916/08/05/3

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NZ Truth Apr 15 1916 Ottoman Empire a shadow of its self May 8 1918 Punch Magazine The Junior Partner Again Mehmed (in Mesopotamia). "Well, I hope William's getting nearer the sea, for I'm getting further and further away from it." bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

New-York Tribune Aug 5 1917 At the Merval aerodrome, a French photographer takes this photo (IWM Q 58225) of a French observation balloon ready to take its position to spot enemy positions. bsky.app/profile/this...

New-York Tribune Aug 5 1917 At the Merval aerodrome, a French observation balloon ready to take its position to spot enemy positions. https://loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1917-08-05/ed-1/?sp=2&r=0.471,-0.008,0.807,0.382,0

IWM Q 58225 "A French observation balloon August 1915.a
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205218809

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

NYT Mar 23 1919 photo of "Scene at the United States Army Observation Balloon School at Arcadia, California" Aug 7 1916 Near Meaulte, France, John Warwick Brooke photo of air mechanics filling a Caquot kite balloon Jul 20 1918 "Air Mines at Air Sheds." bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Daily Telegraph Aug 15 1914 Brit tourists in Germany told to leave country by Aug 5 but when they reached Cologne they were formally arrested. Put on ship down Rhine to leave country. When reached border all men 20-45 were separated from families and taken off ship. Told they were to do farm work

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 12mo ago

L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLIV, No 31, Aug 5 1917 publishes this illustration of a French Chasseurs Alpins (with their curved walking stick) and Italian Alpini. 5 agosto 1917 Francia e Italia nel terzo anniversario della guerra mondiale. bsky.app/profile/this... @alpinshist.bsky.social

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Jul 11 1915 Le Petit Journal Mes blessures me font moins mal que désespoir de le quitter My wounds hurt less than the despair of leaving the flag behind. Les Alpins italiens précipitant d'énormes quartiers de rocs sur une patrouille ennemie Italian Alpini hurling boulders onto the enemy

Mes blessures me font moins mal que désespoir de le quitter
My wounds hurt less than the despair of leaving the flag behind.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k717165v/f1.item
https://x.com/butch2k/status/1811804768249012330

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Jul 15 1918 At the Tank Corps School near Langres, France, US SC photographer Sgt L Rode photos of Renault FT Tanks (111-SC-17540 - 111-SC-17593). Shown here are Tank Trainers, Renault FT variants and a dismounted Tanker with the Tank's Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun. bsky.app/profile/this...

NAID: 55195234
Local ID: 111-SC-17572 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195234
Tank Trainers

NAID: 55195224
Local ID: 111-SC-17567
Renault FT armed with 37mm and Renault FT armed with Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine Gun
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195224

NAID: 55195256
Local ID: 111-SC-17583
A dismounted Tanker using a cradle machine gun mount for the Tank's Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun when the Tanker is forced to dismount
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195256

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Jul 15 1918 At the Tank Corps School near Langres, France, American Signal Corps photographer Sgt L. Rode takes these photos of Renault FT Tanks bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Jul 15 1918 At the Tank Corps School near Langres, France, American Signal Corps photographer Sgt L. Rode takes these photos of Renault FT Tanks bsky.app/profile/this...

NAID: 55195176
Local ID: 111-SC-17543
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195176

Jul 15 1918 At the Tank Corps School near Langres, France, American Signal Corps photographer Sgt L. Rode takes these photos of Renault FT Tanks

NAID: 55195170
Local ID: 111-SC-17540
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195170

NAID: 55195182
Local ID: 111-SC-17546
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195182

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dec 12 1918 Renault FT-17 Tanks 1st arrive in Odessa, Russia, coming with French & Greek forces. 4 captured Near Odessa Mar 18 1919, 1 driven in Soviet parade May 1 1919 (pictured). These captured tanks served as the basis of the 1st Soviet-designed tank, the T-18 (pictured) bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Jul 28 1918 Signal Corps photographer Sgt 1st Class C. Jackson takes this photo of an emplacement of the 380 M/M German gun in woods east of Epieds, France, 26th Div Aug 4 1918 American photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 110497, of American troops examining a base of a heavy German gun at Bresey

NAID: 55195166
Local ID: 111-SC-17538
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195166
Jul 28 1918 Signal Corps photographer Sgt 1st Class C. Jackson takes this photo of an emplacement of the 380 M/M German gun in woods east of Epieds, France, 26th Division

NAID: 55195164
Local ID: 111-SC-17537
Jul 28 1918 Signal Corps photographer Sgt 1st Class C. Jackson takes this photo of an emplacement of the 380 M/M German gun in woods east of Epieds, France, 26th Division
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55195164

Aug 4 1918 An American photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 110497, of American troops examining a base of a heavy German gun at Bresey https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205139253

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Aug 4 1918 Indian Army official photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 52693, of Indian troops taking part at the War Anniversary Service in Kasauli, India 4 August 1918-08-04 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/... bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Jul 29 1916 #OTD Near Querrieu, John Warwick Brooke photos of the Indian Army: Indian barber at work in an Indian Cavalry Camp, possibly 9th Hodson's Horse Indian Hotchkiss Gun Team training Apr 1917 scouts of 9th Hodson’s Horse (Bengal Lancers) Colourized Frédéric Duriez bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · yesterday

Aug 4 1917 British official photographer Ernest Brooks takes these photos of British troops swimming and being transported by barges on the Furnes-Dunkerque canal 4 August 1917-08-04 bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Q 2827 - "British airmen bathing; Dunkirk-Furnes Canal, 4th August 1917."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-08-04
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205079678

IWM Q 3221 - "British troops being transported by barges on the Furnes-Dunkerque canal, 4th August 1917."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-08-04 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205235780

IWM Q 3875 - "British troops on barges on the Furnes-Dunkerque Canal and a line of lorries on the road alongside."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-08-04
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205236393

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jun 8 1918 #OTD All Divers On The Western Front! At Watten, war photographer David McLellan takes these photos of a Royal Engineer diver preparing to descend into the canal to repair a lock gate on the canal. IWM Q 10322, IWM Q 8897, IWM Q 8898

IWM Q 8897 - "Diver of the Royal Engineers descending to repair the foundation of a bridge on the canal at Watten, 8 June 1918."
Creator: McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-06-08
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244691

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Aug 4 1923 Frédéric Gadmer takes these colour autochrome photos 102 years ago. They show construction of huge hangers or aerodromes in Orly, France bsky.app/profile/this...

Construction de hangars à l'aérodrome, échafaudage hydraulique mobile (?), Orly, France, A 38 926 S
4 août 1923
Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/orly-france-vue-de-l-intrieur-d-un-des-hangars-dirigeables-en-construction/617a7a42cf8b8968b337cab1?q=%22A%2038%20926%20S%22&pos=1&pgn=0
Frédéric Gadmer

$Construction de hangars à l\'aérodrome, Orly, France, A 38 912 S 4 août 1923 Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/orly-france-vue-des-hangars-dirigeables-en-construction/617a7a42cf8b8968b337caa3?q=%22A%2038%20912%20S%22&pos=1&pgn=0$ $Construction de hangars à l\'aérodrome, Orly, France, A 38 919 4 aoÃ»t 1923 Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/orly-france-vue-d-un-des-hangars-dirigeables-en-construction/617a7a42cf8b8968b337caaa?q=%22A%2038%20919%22&pos=1&pgn=0$

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 2y ago

New York Times #OTD Feb 2 1919 publishes this William A. Barnhill photo of more than 100 surrendered Imperial German planes in the Trier-Euren Zeppelin Hanger. Barnhill commanded a photographic section in the 91st Aero Squadron www.loc.gov/resource/sn7... bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

1/6🧵Aug 4 1918 Photos of German A7V Tank Mephisto (s/n 506) The A7V Tank was Imperial Germany's only Tank but only around 20 were produced. Instead they used Beute Panzers or captured Allied Tanks. Commander Lt Heinz Theunissen dubbed Tank "Mephisto" a demon from German folklore

Mephisto (Marvel Comics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_(Marvel_Comics)

AWM E02876 - August 4 1918 "At the 5th Tank Brigade demonstration ground, Vaux-en-Amienois, France, Australian soldiers inspect Mephisto, a German A7V tank. After being bogged and abandoned on the battlefield it was recovered on 14 July 1918 by the 26th Battalion and the 1st Gun Carrier company, 5th Brigade of Tanks. After been recovered from the battlefield and studied by the Allies, Mephisto was handed over to the Australian War Records Section for despatch to Australia.

The photograph is taken from the left rear quarter. Scattered on the ground are elements from the tank's interior, including a fuel tank and radiator (left hand front quarter) and a machine gun mount (under the rear towing hook). Resting on its end against the crew cupola on the tank's rear upper surface can be seen the underside of a portion of the tank's driving compartment flooring. The horizontal bar visible in the photograph is connected to the driver's steering wheel (on the other side of the plate). Turning the wheel throttles one engine up and the other down, and thus steers the tank."

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E02876

Aug 4 1918 An Australian photographer takes this photo, AWM E02877, of German A7V Tank Mephisto captured by the 26th Australian Bn and saved for the Australian War Museum by the 5th British Brigade of Tanks. Colourized by A.B. Cannon Photo Restoration.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6B2iHjxJa/
""A German tank captured by the 26th Australian battalion, at Monument Wood, near Villers-Bretonneux, in France, on July 14th, 1918, and subsequently salved for the Australian War Museum by the 5th British Brigade of Tanks" (Official caption). At the 5th Tank Brigade demonstration ground, Vaux-en-Amienois, France, Australian soldiers inspect Mephisto, a German A7V tank (kampfwagen). After being bogged and abandoned on the battlefield it was recovered on 14 July 1918 by the 26th Battalion and a British Royal Armoured Corps unit."
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1261

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Richmond Palladium Sun-Telegram #OTD Aug 4 1919 photo of a giant pile of 150 mostly new surplus airplanes worth $1,000,000 ($15,000,000 in 2025) burned in giant fire at Colombes-les-Belles, France. So close to finding original photo, these 2 show similar piles ready to burn bsky.app/profile/this...

The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram August 4, 1919
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058226/1919-08-04/ed-1/seq-1/
"Witnesses agreed the guards were placed around the fire to keep people away, and were given express orders not to permit photographs to be taken, Marion Payne of Oil City, Pa said he and others “crushed in the sides of the planes with hammers, loosened the bolts fastening the engine to the fuselage, tied a rope to the tail and tipped up the plane, letting the engine fall to the ground four or five feet. The fall would make the engine useless unless remodelled.” New Liberty Motors Destroyed The planes were described as Liberties, Sopwith, Camels, De Havllands, Spads and Sampsons. The number of Liberty motors destroyed was not- known. The committee emphasized that the Liberty motors must have been almost new, for these were late in reaching France. Sergt. Alfred T. Rorer of Scranton, Pa., said the commanding officer of the flying field ordered him to ..."

Item Identifier Number
MS293_01_14

Collection
MS-293: 91st Observation Squadron
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms293_photographs/14/

Item Identifier Number
MS293_01_13

Collection
MS-293: 91st Observation Squadron
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms293_photographs/13/

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NZ Observer Aug 4 1917 You're sure excited giving the 3 cheers! I thought he said free beers paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/T... bsky.app/profile/this...

NZ Observer Aug 4 1917
You're sure excited giving the 3 cheers!
I thought he said free beers
#ww1cartoon
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TO19170804.2.8.4

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New Zealand newspaper Observer Jul 20 1918 publishes this cartoon about a British officer shocked that he was saluted by a colonial soldier paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/T... bsky.app/profile/this...

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Aug 4 1915 H.D. Girdwood takes this photo, 151353, Garhwal riflemen, Estaire La Bassée Road, France, 4 August 1915’ Photo 24/(243) www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/151353 bsky.app/profile/this...

Aug 4 1915 H.D. Girdwood takes this photo, 151353, Garhwal riflemen, Estaire La Bassée Road, France, 4 August 1915’ Photo 24/(243) https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/151353

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Jul 24 1915 #OTD At Le Sart, France, photographer Charles Hilton DeWitt Girdwood takes these photos of British Indian Army Gurkhas wrestling on the regimental transport mules. July 24 1915-07-24 bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Aug 3 1922 #OTD In Bray-sur-Somme, France, Roger Dumas and Frédéric Gadmer take these colour autochrome photos in their original colour 104 years ago. They show a British Mark IV Tank next to St-Nicolas church in Bray-sur-Somme, France. bsky.app/profile/this...

France , Bray s/ Somme , Bas Coté de l' Eglise en réparation
Bray-sur-Somme, France, A 33 095
3 août 1922
Roger Dumas
Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/bray-sur-somme-france/617a7a3ecf8b8968b336083b?q=A33095&pos=1&pgn=0

France , Bray s/ Somme , L' Eglise
Bray-sur-Somme, France, A 33 094
3 aoÃ»t 1922
Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/bray-sur-somme-france/617a7a3ecf8b8968b336083a?q=A33094&pos=1&pgn=0

France , Bray s/ Somme , Place de la Mairie et l' Eglise
Bray-sur-Somme, France, A 33 291 X
3 aoÃ»t 1922
Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine
https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/bray-sur-somme-france/617a7a46cf8b8968b3388b32?q=A33291X&pos=1&pgn=0

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

May 10 1920 #OTD Almost 18 months after end of #WWI, Frédéric Gadmer takes these colour autochrome photos of Arras, France, 106-years-ago. A 21 244, A 21 243, A 21 242 10 mai 1920 Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Aug 3 1917 Near Brielen, Belgium, official British war photographer John Warwick Brooke takes these photos of a 12-inch howitzer on railway mounting of the 104th Siege Battery, R.G.A, near Salvation Corner, just north of Ypres bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Q 7818 "A 12-inch howitzer on railway mounting of the 104th Siege Battery, R.G.A, near Salvation Corner, just north of Ypres, 3 August 1917."
Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-08-03 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239627

IWM Q 7817 - "The Third Battle of Ypres. A 12inch howitzer on railway mounting about to fire. Brielen. 3 August 1917."

Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-08-03 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091097

IWM Q 7821 - "Ramming home a shell in a 12-inch howitzer on railway mounting. Brielen, 3 August 1917."
Creator: John Warwick Brooke (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-08-03
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239629

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Jun 14 1916 Near Dickebusch, Belgium, war photographer Ernest Brooks takes these photos of a 12 inch howitzer (Mark I) on railway mounting of the 89th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Churchill orders that 2 battleships (Sultan Osman-ı Evvel & Reşad V) being built in Britain for Ottoman Empire be seized. Officially renamed HMS Erin and HMS Agincourt #OTD Aug 3 1914. Seizure soured relations between Britain and Ottoman governments google.ca/books/editio... bsky.app/profile/this...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Agincourt_(1913)

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Jul 10 1917 #OTD RNAS Handley Page Bomber, flying from Greece, tried to bomb Ottoman Battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim. It missed but instead sank 655 Ton Destroyer Yâdigâr-ı-Millet (Jadhigar-i-Millet), largest ship sunk by air during #WWI en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Goe... bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

The Columbus Commercial Aug 3 1916 publishes this DeMar cartoon about the German merchant submarine Deutschland. Dye can be seen in the image. Germany was one of the biggest exporters of dye before #WW1 broke out. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_... bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

1916 German seaman Paul Liebrecht König was Captain of the merchant submarine Deutschland that made 2 visits to neutral United States in 1916. He was married to an English woman, Kathleen. The 2 spent the war in their respective countries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_K%... bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Aug 3 1918 Social Democratic Workers Party (SDAP) Magazine: Zondagblad van “Het Volk” no. 3617 of 3 August 1918. Drawings by #AlbertHahn - “After four years of war” Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP) - “Na vier jaren oorlog” 3 augustus 1918

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud is listed as the photographer of these images of the same scene all captioned: Beginning of an idyll, Oise, 1916 Commencement d'Idylle, 1916 [légende d'origine] AUL 110: Colour autochrome cleaned up by @babelcolour.bsky.social D193-1-542 B&W D193-2-790 stereoscopic

Commencement d'idylle, Oise, 1916. [légende d'origine]
Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
Reference: AUL 110
https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/commencement-d-idylle-oise-1916-legende-d-origine.html
BabelColour @StuartHumphryes Aug 3, 2020
Here is an original colour autochrome from The Great War which I have restored for you. It is France in c.1915 and a French soldier & peasant girl have been photographed by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud. (This has not been colourised)
https://x.com/StuartHumphryes/status/1290297410028048389

D193-1-542
Commencement d'Idylle, 1916. [légende d'origine]
https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/commencement-d-idylle-1916-legende-d-origine.html

Commencement d'idylle, Oise 1916. [légende d'origine]
Référence: D193-2-790
https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/commencement-d-idylle-oise-1916-legende-d-origine-3.html

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

1/3🧵Washington Herald Aug 4 1914 Japanese cruiser IJN Izumo & Canadian cruiser HMCS Rainbow will protect Westcoast of North America. Would take some time before IJN Izumo would arrive so HMCS Rainbow was expected to defend again Germany's SMS Nürnberg & SMS Leipzig en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Ra...

The Washington Herald Aug 4 1914
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045433/1914-08-04/ed-1/?sp=1
Japan Aids Britain In Defense from German Ships in Mexican Bay
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 3-Stripped for action the British sloop of war Shearwater hurriedly left the harbor at 3:25 o'clock this afternoon for, the west coast of Mexico to join the British sloop Algerine and the Canadian auxiliary cruiser Rainbow.
Before he left port Commander Trousdale of the Shearwater gave out the startling information that the Japanese cruiser Idzuma was protecting the Algerine and Rainbow from the German cruisers Leipsig and Nuernberg which yesterday off Magdalena Bay captured the British steamer Queen Maud, bound from New Castle, Australia for San Francisco, with 6,000 tons of coal.
Assassin Attempts
To Slay Crown Prince Of Germany, Is Report
Special Cable to The Washington Herald. London, Aug. 3-News of the attempted assassination of the German crown prince was brought by Lord Winterton, who arrived in this city late tonight from Germany.
He said that when he reached the frontier an official told the passengers that the prince's life had been attempted, and that he was authorized to search the train and examine all passengers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Izumo#World_War_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Rainbow_(1891)#Royal_Canadian_Navy

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

HMS Mersey served with the Brazilian Navy as Madeira. Aug 3 1914 she was purchased by the Royal Navy, renamed HMS Mersey along with her sister ships Humber and Severn. Shallow drafts allowed them to get close to shore to fire on Germans advancing in Belgium. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Mer...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 3d ago

American Cameron-Yaggi sniperscope attachment for M1903 Springfield Rifle Jul 23 1920 In Camp Devens, Ayer, Massachusetts , Signal Corps photographer Sgt Joe Hitz takes photo of ROTC using a rifle with trench periscope Elder periscope attachment bsky.app/profile/this... @pptsapper.bsky.social

Cameron-Yaggi M1903 Springfield Trench Rifle with Periscope Sighting Device
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Handbook of ordnance data
by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept; Wade, Herbert T. (Herbert Treadwell),
Publication date 1919
https://archive.org/details/handbookordnanc00unkngoog/page/331/mode/1up

NAID: 45525623 & Local ID: 165-WW-392D-3
Elder periscope attachment
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/45525623

CAMP DEVENS, AYER, MASS. Infantry camp for R.O.T.C. Trench warfare, using trench rifle with periscope sights
NAID: 86742412 & Local ID: 111-SC-69175
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86742412

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last yr.

Apr 1915 In Bois d'Ailly, Meuse, Poilu operating a sniperscope rifle, colourized by Irootoko Jr Aug 29 1916 At Pont-Arcy, France, this photo, IWM Q 49094, shows a #Poilu using a periscope attachment fitted to the butt of his rifle. Colourized by Nicola Pozza bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jun 26 1918 Near the Piave, Austro-Hungrian photographers take this photo (ÖNB Digital ID: 10D11591) of a reserve trench. Colourized by @rocolour.bsky.social Reservat Stützpunkt a.d.Piave 26.6.18 onb.digital/result/10D11... www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=7... bsky.app/profile/this...

Jun 26 1918 Near the Piave, Austro-Hungrian photographers take this photo (ÖNB Digital ID: 10D11591) of a reserve trench. Colourized by @rocolor_photo

Reservat Stützpunkt a.d.Piave 26.6.18
https://onb.digital/result/10D11591
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=743598014686377&set=a.203905505322300

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · last mo.

Jul 1 1915 Austro-Hungarian photographers take these photos: Near Podhajce, Galicia, the removal of dead from the trench 105 cm German artillery piece in the Brenta mountains Officers' graves in Prezeginia, Probably in the area of Miekhov, Russia, now Poland. bsky.app/profile/this...

This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Aug 2 1922 These autochromes of French reconstruction are shown in their original colour 104 years ago. Roger Dumas took A33268 in Eglise de Montdidier Frédéric Gadmer took A33050 in Vauxaillon, Aisne Georges Chevalier took A33417 in Neuville-sous-Margival bsky.app/profile/this...

Vauxaillon, Aisne, France

France, Vauxaillon, Reconstruction

02/08/1922 - 02/08/1922

Domaine
Images fixes
Numéro d'inventaire
A33050 https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-vauxaillon-reconstruction/617a7a45cf8b8968b338870a?q=02/08/1922&pos=80&pgn=5

Montdidier, France

France, Montdidier, Eglise de Montdidier

02/08/1922 - 02/08/1922

Domaine
Images fixes
Numéro d'inventaire
A33268 https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-montdidier-eglise-de-montdidier/617a7a46cf8b8968b3388b1b?q=02/08/1922&pos=85&pgn=5

Neuville-sous-Margival, Aisne, France

France, Neuville s/ Margival, Reconstructions

02/08/1922 - 02/08/1922

Domaine
Images fixes
Numéro d'inventaire
A33417 https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-neuville-s-margival-reconstructions/617a7a45cf8b8968b3388788?q=A33417&pos=1&pgn=0

This Day In WWI@thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jul 11 1922 In Reims, Roger Dumas takes photo in its original colour 104 years ago. Shows area around the Place de Mars. Jul 11 1922 Frédéric Gadmer takes these photos in their original colour 104 years ago. They show Achiet-le-Grand British Cemetery and the Apse of the Albert Basilica ,

France, Achiet, Cimetière Britannique d'Achiet le Grand

11/07/1922
Numéro d'inventaire
A32768 https://collections.albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr/document/france-achiet-cimetiere-britannique-d-achiet-le-grand/617a7a40cf8b8968b336d1c1?q=%2211/07/1922%22&pos=12&pgn=0