The Great War: 100 Years Ago

During the first month of the war thousands of British, French, and Belgium soldiers, and many more young men of military age, were caught behind the rapidly moving German lines.  The German forces, lacking sufficient rear-area units to control the… more »

Edith Cavell, a pioneering nurses well known for helping soldiers on both sides of the conflict, is executed by the German Army for helping wounded British soldiers escape imprisionment. more »

Unteroffizier Walter Kandulski, a German who had taken classes from Pégoud before the war, shoots down his pre-war mentor Adolphe Pégoud.  When the death was revealed the German squadron that Kandulski belonged to flew a wreath over the funeral. more »

Arabia (Song) Far are the shades of Arabia, Where the Princes ride at noon, 'Mid the verdurous vales and thickets, Under the ghost of the moon; And so dark is that vaulted purple Flowers in the forest rise And toss into blossom 'gainst the phantom stars… more »

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her… more »