Monday, May 10, 2021

Eleven Things I Found at the British Library's Website

Click on image for best viewing.  Here they are 580 pixels in width, enlarged they are 1000 pixels.  MH


This poster commemorates killed soldiers from
Magrè a small town near Vicenza, Italy



This map shows the Allied front line at the Ypres
Salient on 2 December 1917 and the wet and
totally inundated areas.



Indian Patients at the Dome Hospital, Brighton



Lusitania Poster by Belgian Gisbert Combaz (1869–1941)



Original Publication of "Futility" by Wilfred Owen
in The Nation, 15 June 1918



"It's a Long, Long War to Tipperary" Handkerchief



From Digger Dialects (Slang of Australian Soldiers)



Sicilian school publication commemorating Italy’s
entry into the First World War, 24 May 1915



Trench life photos published in a German magazine



Fragments of an explosive bullet extracted from the wound
 of a Serbian soldier in the Russian hospital at Valievo, from "Report upon the atrocities committed by the Austro-Hungarian army during the first invasion
of Serbia;" submitted to the Serbian government.



This chart plots the locations and movements of the Allied
 and German ships between 5:30 p.m. and 5:48 p.m.
during the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916.


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