Newsreel clip, IWM IWM 233, shows what appears to be a soldier surfing a British Female Tank. It appears to have the Female Sponsons but no steering wheels or unditching bars. The Mark IV Female tank also has flatter sponsons.
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Mar 8 1917 Near Reims Cathedral, Paul Castelnau takes these photos of snow covered ruins of the chapel of the Convent of the Sisters of Reparation and bakers pushing their cart through the snow bsky.app/profile/this...
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Chicago Tribune Mar 9 1915 publishes this John T. McCutcheon cartoon: Will neutrals join the War?
Mar 8 1915 Is civilization reverting to the code of the cave man - John T. McCutcheon bsky.app/profile/this...
Aug 17 1920 In Péronne, Frédéric Gadmer photo of British Mark IV Tank (s/n 2757) "Gordon"
Jul 1920 Popular Mechanics Mark IV Tank Amusement ride
Mar 8 1919 #OTD photographer captures tourists riding a Renault FT Tank. Girls of Smith College Northampton enjoy a Tank ride.
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This newsreel footage (IWM 420-13+14, IWM 452, IWM 1195) shows Tank training in #WW1. Footage shows both Male and Female Tanks advancing with smoke screens and infantry support.
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Mar 7 1917 Fernand Cuville 109-year-old colour autochrome pictures of the ruins of Reims Cathedral in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France. The Subé fountain was built by André Najoux in 1906 thanks to August Subé
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IWM WWC R27-2-1 - "Mrs Catherine Mary Harley, Serbian Relief Fund. Killed by Bulgarian shellfire at Monastir 7 March 1917." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380484
IWM WWC R27-2 - "Mrs Catherine Mary Harley, Serbian Relief Fund. Killed by Bulgarian shellfire at Monastir 7 March 1917." https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205380483
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Harley_(suffragist)
Suffragist, Katherine Mary Harley helped to found the Women's Emergency Corps in #WW1. In Jun 1916 established ambulance unit attached to Royal Serbian Army. Mar 7 1917 In Monastir, Serbia, she was killed when the house she was in was shelled by the Bulgarians
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Chickasha Daily Express on Mar 7 1916 publishes photo of "chapel, erected by Trench troops at the front in Champagne, is made entirety of sand bags, its priest is standing beside it, and within is seen the coffin of a dead soldier
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Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Mar 7 1915: "No waste is permitted, as Germany feels the necessity of conserving the supply ... government inspector at the right of the picture is seen supervising the work, while the young apprentice next to him is stamping the initial K" on loaves
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Mar 7 1915 Russia to supply Allies with wheat once Dardanelles straits open
Rock Island Argus Mar 8 1915 Bob Satterfield cartoon "For the love of Allah, be Reasonable"
Mar 6 1915 If Allah doesn't do something soon Allies will get us - John T. McCutcheon bsky.app/profile/this...
Washington Times Mar 7 1915 These US nurses off to war From Left to Right Florence Gordon, Mollie McGrath, Cathlyne O'Hanlon, Eugenia H. Lyons, Beda Laurentia Peterson, Alma Marie McCormick, Nellie Burdette Parsons, Ellen O'Hanlon, Dorothy O'Connell, Victoria Francfort. bsky.app/profile/this...
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Pte James Briggs, 5231, 2nd Bn, Border Regiment deserted his post on Jan 20 1915. He made it all the way to the coast and had even stowed away on the transport ship La Havre when he was arrested. His unit was forced to watch his execution #OTD Mar 6 1915 https://books.google.ca/books?id=la6DDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136&dq=JAMES+BRIGGS+Border+Regiment+executed+march+6+1915&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT0Lq_oJzvAhVNs54KHSI8DQIQ6AEwAHoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=JAMES%20BRIGGS%20Border%20Regiment%20executed%20march%206%201915&f=false
Pte James Briggs, 5231, 2nd Bn, Border Regiment deserted his post on Jan 20 1915. He made it all the way to the coast and had even stowed away on the transport ship La Havre when he was arrested. His unit was forced to watch his execution #OTD Mar 6 1915 books.google.ca/books?id=la6...
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Mar 5 1918 Near St. Jean, looking back towards Ypres, official war photographer David McLellan takes this photo, IWM Q 8703, of a sunken and abandoned British tank submerged in mud and surrounded by shell-holes. 6 March 1918-03-06 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205244529
Mar 5 1918 Near St. Jean, looking back towards Ypres, official war photographer David McLellan takes this photo, IWM Q 8703, of a sunken and abandoned British tank submerged in mud and surrounded by shell-holes.
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Chicago Tribune #OTD Mar 6 1915 publishes this photo, "German Taube on exhibition in Paris-This aeroplane was brought down by French gunners along the Aisne and sent to Paris as a war trophy. The picture gives and excellent idea of the distinctive bird shape adopted by the Germans for their war aeroplanes, of which they have a great number." http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/03/06/page/5/article/sidelights-of-the-war-as-shown-in-latest-photographs-from-europe
Chicago Tribune #OTD Mar 6 1915 publishes this photo, "German Taube on exhibition in Paris ... brought down by French gunners along the Aisne ... The picture gives and excellent idea of the distinctive bird shape adopted by the Germans" archives.chicagotribune.com/1915/03/06/p...
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The Tacoma Times #OTD Mar 6 1916 publishes this Bob Satterfield cartoon
The Detroit Times on Apr 13 1916 publishes this McBride cartoon titled "To The Highest Bidder." bsky.app/profile/this...
Amarillo Daily News #OTD Mar 6 1915 photo of prisoners knitting socks for soldiers. "New spirit has taken hold of the prisoners in New York State's prison at Sing Sing. It is a spirit of cooperation, a spirit that makes them forget that they are criminals" bsky.app/profile/this...
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Evening Star Mar 8 1915 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1915-03-08/ed-1/seq-1/# CAPT. VASSILIEFF DEAD. Russian Embassy Official in Charge of War Purchases. NEW YORK, March 8-Capt. Dmitri Vassilieff, acting naval attache of the Russian embassy at Washington, who died here yesterday, was stationed in this city to direct the purchase of war supplies for Russia in this country. Before illness prevented him from continuing his work, it was said, he had spent $100,000,000 in America. Capt. Vassilieff was a personal friend of Emperor Nicholas of Russia and for several years was the emperor's aid on board the royal yacht.
![The daily Gate City Mar 6 1916
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025182/1916-03-06/ed-1/seq-1/
Women on Battleships never allowed
Secretary Daniels May Stir up Trouble if He Issues Announced Order.
[United Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON. March 6.—A move which promises further difficulty for Secretary Daniels and which is looking upon as another outgrowth of the "molly codding" of the American Navy, developed here today. The secretary announced that he would issue a special order permitting wives of American members of the international high commission to make the trip to Buenos Ayres on the battleship Tennessee. For years it has been an unbroken rule of the American navy that no woman should be carried aboard a battleship at sea. The presence of women
aboard warships has been limited solely to social functions while vessels are in port The "pettitcoating" of a warship is looked up on with anything but favor by the sticklers for naval tradition.
Though the purpose of the congress at Buenos Ayres is primarily to work out plans for effecting a closer relationship and a better acquaintance between the countries of North and
South America, the commission of which Secretary McAdoo is the head, has refused to allow even the representatives of the two big American press associations to accompany the party on the Tennessee.
The reason given is that "there is no room aboard."
When they learned today that the wives of some of the commissioners were to be provided with quarters, but that the newspaper men were to be barred from the trip, several congressmen who had voted for the appropriation, denounced the transforming of the mission into what termed "a junket." Inquiry at the navy department developed that in order to make possible carrying of women aboard the battleship, Secretary Daniels had been forced to suspend the naval regulations and issue a special order.
As announced today, the party which will sail from Hampton Roads on Wednesday will include Mr.…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xnrput754ojoqdguffwcrh3j/bafkreie3acekf6xomwhfmvjqw3vywa5m6trhr7tag4pmgtxzyjpyllvrsi@jpeg)
The daily Gate City Mar 6 1916 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025182/1916-03-06/ed-1/seq-1/ Women on Battleships never allowed Secretary Daniels May Stir up Trouble if He Issues Announced Order. [United Press Leased Wire Service.] WASHINGTON. March 6.—A move which promises further difficulty for Secretary Daniels and which is looking upon as another outgrowth of the "molly codding" of the American Navy, developed here today. The secretary announced that he would issue a special order permitting wives of American members of the international high commission to make the trip to Buenos Ayres on the battleship Tennessee. For years it has been an unbroken rule of the American navy that no woman should be carried aboard a battleship at sea. The presence of women aboard warships has been limited solely to social functions while vessels are in port The "pettitcoating" of a warship is looked up on with anything but favor by the sticklers for naval tradition. Though the purpose of the congress at Buenos Ayres is primarily to work out plans for effecting a closer relationship and a better acquaintance between the countries of North and South America, the commission of which Secretary McAdoo is the head, has refused to allow even the representatives of the two big American press associations to accompany the party on the Tennessee. The reason given is that "there is no room aboard." When they learned today that the wives of some of the commissioners were to be provided with quarters, but that the newspaper men were to be barred from the trip, several congressmen who had voted for the appropriation, denounced the transforming of the mission into what termed "a junket." Inquiry at the navy department developed that in order to make possible carrying of women aboard the battleship, Secretary Daniels had been forced to suspend the naval regulations and issue a special order. As announced today, the party which will sail from Hampton Roads on Wednesday will include Mr.…
Evening Star Mar 8 1915 Dmitri Vassilieff dies in US. On behalf of Imperial Russia spent $100,000,000 ($ 3 Billion in 2025) on war materiel
Daily Gate City Mar 6 1916 "For years it has been an unbroken rule of the American navy that no woman should be carried aboard a battleship at sea."
Mar 6 1917 Paul Castelnau takes the photo (top right) of ruins of Reims Cathedral in their original colour, 108 years ago. On the same day Fernand Cuville takes the other 2 photos including one of a fire fighting team that has been "cleaned-up" by @babelcolour.bsky.social
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New York Times on Mar 6 1915 on 72-year-old Lt-Gen Sir Pratap Singh (Pictured in 1st and 2nd pic) British Indian Army officer, and Maharaja of princely state of Idar fighting with his men on the #WesternFront.
El Paso Herald Nov 12 1914 photo of an Indian Machine Gun Squad bsky.app/profile/this...
This newsreel footage, IWM IWM 1079, shows Americans demonstrating captured donut shaped Wechselapparat M.1917 (Wex) flamethrowers. Footage taken matches a photo (IWM Q 94318) taken on Mar 6 1918 of Wex flame throwers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsel...
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Mar 5 1915 Paul Sarrut creates this image of Sikh Soldier Chattar Singh, 52nd Sikhs FF Calonne sur la Lys
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Bisbee Daily Review #OTD Mar 5 1915 prints this picture of a 12 inch Imperial Austro-Hungarian Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 siege howitzer that fires 1000lb shells
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Evening Public Ledger Mar 5 1915 "picture is being enacted daily, but on a far larger scale, on the battlefield of Europe...victims of an encounter between ... French and German troops, are picked up on the battlefield and laid out in a row. French sappers are seen burying" bsky.app/profile/this...
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Le Petit Journal Mar 5 1916
Les Soldats Hindous de l'armee anglaise du golfe Persique.
Hindu Soldiers of the British Army in the Persian Gulf.
Têtes De Boches Défilé: de prisonnier conquise par nos troupes
German Parade of conquered POWs
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Illustrated London News Mar 5 1915 publishes this H.C Seppings-Wright image of Imperial Russian forces storming Austro-Hungarian positions on a Carpathian mountain top (Artist relates it to Spion Kop, a famous Boer War battle) Ragged peasants can be seen fleeing battleground bsky.app/profile/this...
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Tulsa Daily World Mar 3 1915 Mine Barrier in the North Sea
Chicago Tribune Mar 4 1915 Who will win her for his Ally?
Chicago Tribune Mar 5 1915 John T. McCutcheon cartoon: Emperor Francis Joseph to use palace gardens to grow food for his people bsky.app/profile/this...
Mar 5 1916 Grey River Argus prints photo of Churchill (Photo on left taken in 1904) and prints "the Commoners were puzzled at Mr. Churchill's volte face" as he urged Mr Balfour to "animate the Board of the Admiralty by recalling" First Sea Lord John Fisher (photo on right) bsky.app/profile/this...
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Mar 5 1919 #OTD Near Fort de la Pompelle, France, Paul Castelnau takes these colour autochrome photos 106-years-ago. They show captured British Mark IV Female Tank (s/n 4571) "Liesal" with German markings (Abt 14, wagon 113). Abandoned on the battlefield Jun 1 1918
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Mar 5 1918 At Fosses Farm, near Arras, official war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes this photo, IWM Q 10707, of a platoon of 8/10th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (Part of 15th Division) during rifle inspection 5 March 1918-03-05 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205246377
Mar 5 1918 At Fosses Farm, near Arras, official war photographer Thomas Keith Aitken takes this photo, IWM Q 10707, of a platoon of 8/10th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (Part of 15th Division) during rifle inspection
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