By James Patton The first commandant of Canada's new Francophone 22nd  battalion was Lieut. Col. Frédèric-Mondelet Gaudet (1867–1947), a...

Cap Badge for the Francophone 22nd Battalion CEF By James Patton There are different estimates of the number of French-Canadians who volunte...

Artist-Soldier Oskar Kokoschka 19 August 1915 There was something stirring at the edge of the forest. Dismount! Lead horses! Our line was jo...

28 June 1919 By Charles B. Burdick   The Crowd Outside the Palace Grounds at Versailles About 2:30 p.m. Georges Clemenceau entered the Hall ...

Images Can Be Enlarged by Clicking on Them . Here's a selection of pages from a 1915 British publication that bizarrely attempted to ...

Kaiser Wilhelm II with Chancellor Bismarck Present Opens a Session of the Reichstag By Dennis Cross In 1912 Kaiser Wilhelm II celebrated his...

Captain Charles Stormont Gibbs, MC, 4th Suffolks There's a sub-genre of World War One literature that I swore off about 20 years ago, wh...

Lead Cartoon from Issue #1, 8 February 1918 From the Library of Congress On 13 June 1919, The Stars and Stripes , "The American Soldie...

Sgt. Roy Evans Thompson By Roy's Son, Dale Thompson Future Doughboy Roy Thompson grew up on a farm outside Albion, Washington. As a teen...

As far as I can determine, this stately structure outside of the village of Soupir, just north of the River Aisne, has no official designati...

Fountain –R. Mutt and Artist Marcel Duchamp By David Lubin from the Oxford University Press Blog, 19 May 2017 [Over a century ago] two of t...