Hull before 1914
…Workhouses and a number of orphanages to provide some relief to the poor and disadvantaged. Sport, Clubs and Entertainment: Societies and clubs began to emerge to provide recreation and education….
Kingston upon Hull War Memorial 1914 - 1918
The story of Hull in World War 1
…Workhouses and a number of orphanages to provide some relief to the poor and disadvantaged. Sport, Clubs and Entertainment: Societies and clubs began to emerge to provide recreation and education….
…extensively across all branches of the British Army, Royal Navy, Merchant Navy, Royal Air Force, and the Home Defence. They also died serving Commonwealth nations, such as Canada, Australia and…
…https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1032373216656648 and ‘Expenditure of the MoP’, PIN 15/2601, NA“. For some analysis and case studies on war Pensions see:- https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/health-in-returning-veterans-of-the-first-world-war-the-impact-of-wounds-agassing-injury-and-medical-and-psychological-conditions-from-a-study-of-the-pension-ledgers-by-dr-peter-hodgkinson/ Blind Ex Servicemen learning to mend boots. St Dunstan’s –…
…armies and their Allies, Austria and Hungary. On 5th August 1914, the Royal Navy blocked Germany’s international trade. 623 German and 101 Austrian merchant ships took refuge in neutral ports,…
…an unofficial Christmas Truce in 1914 between German and British soldiers. Men from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India South Africa and other commonwealth countries all fought at Ypres, alongside men…
…on the war and the Germans and their allies, only $61 billion. Among the Allies, Britain and its Empire spent $47 billion and the U.S. $27 billion (America joined the…
…11th (1st Hull) Heavy Battery and Ammunition Column, RGA 124th (2nd Hull) Heavy Battery and Ammunition Column, RGA 146th (3rd Hull) Heavy Battery and Ammunition Column, RGA 31st (Hull) Divisional…
…area today remains saturated with unexploded shells, grenades, and rusty ammunition. Soils are heavily polluted by mercury, chlorine, arsenic, various dangerous gases, acids, human and animal remains. The area is…
…the hundreds of visitors on Saturday evening [23 September 1916] and again yesterday [24 September 1916] were invited to contribute a copper for our sailors’ and soldiers’ tobacco.” The Church…
…world, on land, sea and air in Northern France & Southern Belgium, Italy, the Balkans (including Greece & Gallipoli); Russia; Egypt; Africa; Asia and Australasia. Huge armies deployed new weapons…