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Oct 8 1918 #OTD Near Prémont, John Warwick Brooke photos of 20th Bn, Manchester Reg (25th Division) resting by an abandoned Mark V* Tank (s/n 9891) during the Battle of Cambrai. On Sep 29 1918, while under command of Lt Moury, 301st Bn, A Company, the Tank became stuck bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM Art.IWM ART 2267
1918
Creator: Adeney, W Bernard
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/65

Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a British Mk V (female) tank serial number 9891 of the 301st Btn, A Coy, disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment on the 29th September. Photo taken near Prémont on 8 October 1918.
© IWM Q 7113)
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IWM Q 7111 - "Battle of Cambrai. Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. Near Prémont, 8 October 1918."

Creator: Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-10-08
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205238960

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This Day In WWI @thisdayinwwi.bsky.social · Nov 3

The New York Herald, European Edition, Oct 8 1914 publishes these photos of 6 Imperial German War Flags received at the The Musée de l'Armée Invalides, Paris archive.nytimes.com/iht-retrospe...

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Jan 2 1918 placing "nail in a box pinned to a wall in Metz-en-Couture"

May 6 1915 "French Foreign Legion and French Zouaves seen in camp at Sedd el Bahr, sorting out salvaged kit and equipment."

Oct 8 1917 "So why let it lie in the mud, take it to the SALVAGE DUMP" bsky.app/profile/this...

IWM (Q 8388 - "A soldier places a nail in a box pinned to a wall in Metz-en-Couture, 2 January 1918. Nails could puncture lorry tyres and injure horses."
Creator: David McLellan (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1918-01-02 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244263

IWM Q 3015 - "A soldier next to a British Army salvage notice near Langemarck (Langemark-Poelkapelle), 8 October 1917. The sign says "LET "FRITZ" HAVE IT. It was made for him. So why let it lie in the mud, take it to the SALVAGE DUMP".
Creator: Ernest Brooks(Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1917-10-08 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205192928

IWM Q 13231 - "Men of the French Foreign Legion and French Zouaves seen in camp at Sedd el Bahr, sorting out salvaged kit and equipment."
Creator: Ernest Brooks (Lieutenant) (Photographer)
Production date: 1915-05-06 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205248468

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Oct 25 1917 #OTD Machine guns on the Italian Front
Oct 7 1915 Officine di Villar Perosa, demonstrated a 9mm Villar Perosa mahcine gun for the British at the School of Musketry in Hythe. The FIAT Mod. 1915 or Vilar Peros was later rejected by the British en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villar_...

Oct 25 1917 #OTD Machine guns on the Italian Front

Sturm-Pistolen 25.10.17.
BildID: 15610372
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The Chickasha Daily Express #OTD Oct 6 1915 "Submarine wasp getting new stings
English submarine alongside the parent ship receiving a fresh supply of torpedoes, which have to be lowered vertically through the small opening in the deck" chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86090...

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In 1915 American artist Robert Minor starts an Anti-War cartoon series: "I'm going to rip Brass Buttons off war!" Some of his images were published in:
The Seattle Star Oct 6 1915
The Tacoma Times Nov 20 1915
The Seattle Star Nov 26 1915
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The Seattle Star Nov 26 1915
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1915-11-26/ed-1/seq-1/#

The Seattle Star Oct 6 1915
"I'm going to rip Brass Buttons off war!"

A cartoon by Robert Minor himself on his commission to Europe for this newspaper. His own caption for this picture is: "The war with the brass buttons off!"
Robert Minor, the great American crayon genius is going to SKETCH the great war as an AMERICAN sees it —he's going to RIP THE BRASS BUTTONS OFF!
Minor is just about the most red-blooded cartoonist in these United States, so you'll know that what he sends will be THE HUMAN SIDE OF IN HUMAN WAR!
Minor's a product of the people—began life as a butcher's boy in San Antonio—and he's been thru unemployment and strikes and every sort of privation.
Now he's recognized as one of the few great American cartoonists on social problems.
He sees this war from the standpoint of the common man, and his pictures of the battlefields will not be colored by the sheen of gold lace or the glare of glory.
He's going to tell the truth, the plain truth, and nothing but the truth!
He'll not be purposely tragic or purposely sad, and he won't glorify horror just for the sake of being horrible. We can't tell just when Minor's first pictures will come, but we know they'll be worth waiting for—and we advise you to watch The Star right along for the GREATEST WAR PICTURES THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1915-10-06/ed-1/seq-1/

The Tacoma Times Nov 20 1915
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1915-11-20/ed-1/seq-1/

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El Paso Herald Oct 6 1914 "when troops of Cossacks are charging batteries, they drive immense flocks of sheep and cattle before them right onto the tangled mass of ware. Then charge their horses over the platform of flesh, sabering the gunners in the very trenches behind."
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El Paso Herald Oct 6 1914
COSSACKS USE SHEEP IN CHARGING WIRE BARRICADES London, Eng., Oct. 16.-A correspondent of the Daily Mail who has been traveling in the east Prussian field of operations describes a Cossack device to overcome wire entanglements. He
says:
"This being a great grazing country, when troops of Cossacks are charging batteries, they drive immense flocks of sheep and cattle before them right onto the tangled mass of ware. Then they charge their horses over the platform of flesh, sabering the gunners in the very trenches behind.
"This plan, however, was soon imitated by the Germans, who were equally fearless and successful in carrying it out." https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88084272/1914-10-16/ed-1/seq-1/#

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The Chickasha Daily Express Oct 6 1915 www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

"Submarine Wasp Getting New Stings - English submarine alongside the parent ship receiving a fresh supply of torpedoes, which have to be lowered vertically through the small opening in the deck" bsky.app/profile/this...

The Chickasha Daily Express Oct 6 1915 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86090528/1915-10-06/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.227,0.115,0.97,0.442,0

"Submarine Wasp Getting New Stings - English submarine alongside the parent ship receiving a fresh supply of torpedoes, which have to be lowered vertically through the small opening in the deck"

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Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 6 1915
"Canadians Convict a Dynamiter
Albert Kaltschmidt, of Detroit, charging him with conspiracy in connection with the dynamiting of the Peabody Overall factory at Walkerville, Ontario, several months ago, and with an at tempt to destroy the Windsor armory."

Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 6 1915
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042242/1915-10-06/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.399,0.162,0.472,0.215,0
Canadians Convict a Dynamiter
Windsor, Ontario, Oct. 5.-The Es- sex county, grand jury this afternoon returned an indictment against Albert Kaltschmidt, of Detroit, charging him with conspiracy in connection with the dynamiting of the Peabody Over- all factory at Walkerville, Ontario, several months ago, and with an at- tempt to destroy the Windsor armory. The Walkerville plant was manufacturing uniforms for the British army at the time of the explosion.
Kaltschmidt is president of a Michigan salt concern and has repeatedly denied the accusation that he figured in the conspiracy.

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IWM writes #OTD Oct 6 1917 During Battle of Passchendaele, Canadian Official photographer William Rider-Rider takes this photo, IWM CO 2215, of stretcher-bearers bringing in a wounded man over muddy ground. However, the Canadian DB says it was taken Nov 1917 bsky.app/profile/this...

Canadian wounded being brought through the mud. Battle of Passchendaele. November, 1917
Item no. (creator): O-2215
Item ID number: 3397040
https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Record?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3397040

IWM CO 2215
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Le Petit Journal Oct 3 1915 "THE YOUNG PRINCES ON THE FRONT Prince Humbert, heir to the throne of Italy, acclaimed by the Italian"
"YOUNG PRINCES ON THE FRONT Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the throne of Belgium.. and a simple soldier, pays honors to the king" bsky.app/profile/this...

Le Petit Journal
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"LES JEUNES PRINCES SUR LE FRONT
Le prince Humbert, héritier du trône d'Italie,
acclamé par les troupes italiennes sur les lignes de l'Isonzo"

"LES JEUNES PRINCES SUR LE FRONT
Le prince Léopold, duc de Brabant, héritier du trône de Belgique... et simple soldat, rend les honneurs au roi son père."

"THE YOUNG PRINCES ON THE FRONT
Prince Humbert, heir to the throne of Italy,
acclaimed by the Italian troops on the lines of the Isonzo"

"THE YOUNG PRINCES ON THE FRONT
Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant, heir to the throne of Belgium... and a simple soldier, pays honors to the king, his father."

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Chicago Tribune Oct 5 1915 prints this Frank King cartoon

Come On In - The War's Fine

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Chicago Tribune Oct 5 1915 prints this Frank King cartoon

Come On In - The War's Fine http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/10/05/page/5/article/editorial-cartoon-1-no-title

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Poster for the Blue Cross appeal of the Our Dumb Friends League, published 1916.

Help Horses in War Time bsky.app/profile/this...

Poster for the Blue Cross appeal of the Our Dumb Friends League, published 1916
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The Tacoma Times Oct 6 1915 publish this Bob Satterfield cartoon and a headline about Chaos in Greek government, Allies desert Serbia chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Tacoma Times Oct 6 1915 publish this Bob Satterfield cartoon and a headline about Chaos in Greek government, Allies desert Serbia http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1915-10-06/ed-1/seq-1/

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The Seattle Star Oct 6 1915 prints this cartoon by Robert Minor "I'm going to rip Brass Buttons off War!" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Seattle Star Oct 6 1915 prints this cartoon by Robert Minor "I'm going to rip Brass Buttons off War!" https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1915-10-06/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-0.296,0.086,1.184,0.539,0 https://x.com/ThisDayInWWI/status/1861810549182324850

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Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 6 1915
"Canadians Convict a Dynamiter
Albert Kaltschmidt, of Detroit, charging him with conspiracy in connection with the dynamiting of the Peabody Overall factory at Walkerville, Ontario, several months ago, and with an at tempt to destroy the Windsor armory."

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The Chickasha Daily Express Oct 6 1915 www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

"Submarine Wasp Getting New Stings - English submarine alongside the parent ship receiving a fresh supply of torpedoes, which have to be lowered vertically through the small opening in the deck" bsky.app/profile/this...

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The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914 publishes this photo, LC-DIG-ggbain-17479, with the caption: "A battlefield after the battle-After the flight of the Germans from the Marne district bodies of their dead were left lying on the fields" www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914 publishes this photo with the caption
"A battlefield after the battle-After the flight of the Germans from the Marne district bodies of their dead were left lying on the fields" https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1914-10-01/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.405,0.592,0.573,0.261,0

LC-DIG-ggbain-17479
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dead_German_Between_Villeroy_%26_Neufmontiers_LCCN2014697741.jpg

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El Paso Herald Oct 2 1914 Japan warns China as it attacks Germany's Chinese colonies

Tacoma Times Oct 2 1914 German Count Reventlow slams UK allying itself Japan predicts future race war

Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 1 1914 "intense hatred" of Americans, Japanese believe war with USA is inevitable

El Paso Herald Oct 2 1914 Japan warns China to leave its own territory so it can attack Germany's Chinese colonies
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88084272/1914-10-02/ed-1/?sp=1&q=&r=-0.915,0,2.831,1.289,0

The Tacoma Times Oct 2 1914 Count Reventlow German Naval authority slams British allying itself Japan predicts a future war between the races

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88085187/1914-10-02/ed-1/?sp=1&q=&r=-0.155,-0.042,1.372,0.625,0

Bismarck Daily Tribune Oct 1 1914
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042242/1914-10-01/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.367,0.356,0.391,0.178,0

"Throughout Japan there is an intense hatred of the American people ... Japanese people believe that war with the United States is inevitable"

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Oct 2 1914 Labor Journal publishes this Alfred T. Renfro cartoon: Labor Pays The Price of War

The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914 65,000 wounded Germans reach city of Cologne

Evening Post Oct 3 1914 An avalanche of German wounded from Marne and the Aisne is taxing the French Red Cross facilities to utmost

Oct 2 1914 Everest, Washington Paper: Labor Pays The Price of War
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88085620/1914-10-02/ed-1/?sp=1&q=

The Seattle Star Oct 1 1914
65,000 wounded Germans reach city of Cologne
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87093407/1914-10-01/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.413,0.722,0.99,0.451,0

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914, Page 7
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19141003.2.45.15

AN AVALANCHE OF WOUNDED

CARNAGE HAS EXCEEDED ALL EXPECTATIONS RED CROSS FACILITIES TAXED TO THE UTMOST " PARIS, Ist October. An avalanche of German wounded from Marne and the Aisne is taxing the French Red Cross facilities to the utmost. Both German and British wounded are being hurried to England. Although the British Red Cross organisation is perfect, the carnage exceeds all expectations. In Rouen, Nantes, Le Mans, and Tours the little British graveyards are trowing daily. The French people are paying their tribute of sympathy in owers and tears.

SIXTY THOUSAND AT COLOGNE COPENHAGEN, Ist October. bixty thousand German wounded have reached Cologne. The Exhibition and other public buildings have been converted into hospitals. Machine guns have been mounted on the Cathedral and the roofs of hotels, lhe public is panicky, fearing air attacks.

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NZ Evening Post Oct 3 1914 Page 7 prints this report about 500 Germans being wiped out. The French commander ordered his artillery battery to "Make me a cemetery down there." The order was obeyed. The guns accounted for most, and rifle fire for. the rest. Not a man escaped" bsky.app/profile/this...

NOT A MAN ESCAPED
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19141003.2.45.2#text-tab

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1914

NOT A MAN ESCAPED

FIVE HUNDRED GERMANS KILLED APPALLING INCIDENT ON ALLIES' LEFT (Received October 3, 10.30 a.m.) . ' , . PARIS, 2nd October. -There 1 was an appalling incident on the Allies' left wing on Monday. Five hundred Germans were caught in flat fields with slopes on every side. The French artillery quietly occupied the positions. iWlien the moment came to open fire, the officer commanding the battery said: "Make me a cemetery down there." rThe order was obeyed. The guns accounted for most, and rifle fire for. the rest. Not a man escaped. Shells spread missiles over an area a hundred yards by thirty yards. They often kilf a whole row of entrenched men. , [A message published yesterday stated: — "The fighting proceeding in one region on the Allies' left resembles Paardeburg, 3500 Germans being in tho same plight as Cronje, though not i*a rrver-bed like the latter was, but in quarries. The 'French troops completely surrounded thorn, and aro shelling them in order to-compol "them to surrender,"]

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WWI Centennial: British move from their trenches to the coast and Battle of Arras

The Logan Republican Oct 3 1914 prints Western Front Line progression

Oct 4 1914 The Washington Times presents The Four Stages of German Retreat

The Logan Republican Oct 3 1914 prints Western Front Line progression https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85058246/1914-10-03/ed-1/?sp=1&r=-1.07,0,3.14,1.43,0

Oct 4 1914 The Washington Times presents The Four Stages of German Retreat
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The Calumet News Oct 3 1914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon of the American Eagle protecting the peace dove from the thundering war www.loc.gov/resource/sn8... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Calumet News Oct 3 1914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon of the American Eagle protecting the peace dove from the thundering war https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86086633/1914-10-03/ed-1/?sp=1&r=0.01,0.496,0.563,0.256,0

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The Daily Missoulian Oct 4 914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon

When the science of "civilized" war fails, stab them with the pointy end chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025... bsky.app/profile/this...

The Daily Missoulian Oct 4 914 prints this E. A. Bushnell cartoon

When the science of "civilized" war fails, stab them with the pointy end http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025316/1914-10-04/ed-1/seq-1/

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Iowa's The Daily Gate City Oct 4 1914 headline: "Black Africans Uses Bayonets on The Germans ... The African troops covered themselves with glory. They drove their lines into the broken columns of Germans, using their bayonets and some case even the butt-end of their rifles" bsky.app/profile/this...

Iowa's The Daily Gate City Oct 4 1914 headline: "Black Africans Uses Bayonets on The Germans"
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025182/1914-10-04/ed-1/?sp=1&st=image&r=-0.032,0.577,0.773,0.352,0
"The African troops covered themselves with glory. They drove their lines into the broken columns of Germans, using their bayonets and some case even the butt-end of their rifles"