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Russian soldiers preparing chlorine cylinders for a gas attack on German positions near Ilukste, 1916
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“INCIDENTS ON THE SALONIKA FRONT.
“ENEMY SHELLED OUT OF ONE OF HIS CAMPS.
“The General Officer Commanding the British forces at Salonika reports to-day: [26th September 1915]
“On our Struma front Karaska was shelled by French artillery, with the result that the enemy was compelled to move one of his camps.
“On our Doiran front our patrols made successful raids on enemy trenches.
“Hostile artillery and aircraft displayed considerable activity. Our aircraft engaged enemy machines on three occasions, and drove them off.
“From Paris to-day:
“From the Struma the Vardar there was an artillery duel, and rather lively skirmishes, notably on the British front in the Lake Doiran region.
“On the Serbian front there was no infantry action.
“Our artillery violently cannonaded the Bulgarian positions on the right bank of the Brod.
“To the east of Florina the French troops, viloently [sic] counter-attacked by important Bulgarian forces above Armenskon, magnificently resisted all the enemy’s assaults.
“Mowed down by our artillery and infantry fire, the assailants sustained considerable losses, and withdrew in disorder.
“To the west of Florina the Russians, in co-operation with our troops, engaged in lively combat to the north of Armenskon, in the course of which they took 50 prisoners and captured four machine guns.” [1]
[1] ‘Nottingham Evening Post,’ 26th September 1915.
Image: Lake Doiran, IWM Q 69029.
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“THE OPERARY WOMEN IN THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL ARMY”
“Two years ago the world’s biggest brick factory closed its doors as all of its workforced enlisted to the british army. This difficulty, however, was overcome due to feminine workforce joining the fold and soon the factory was working again. In the pictures: (1) A woman filling a brick molding machine with mud; (2) transporting bricks from the molding machine to the furnaces; (3) setting the bricks into the furnace; (4) taking the finished bricks to the railways.”
Feminine work during the Great War played a big role in the conflict, as more and more men enslisted and the war escalated, women were the ones left to make the war industry going. This is argued as one of the first movements that influenced the creation of feminism and female emancipation movements such as that, as more and more women filled the gap left by men and started to demand equal rights.
Source: A Guerra Illustrada/”La Guerre Illustrée” (The War Illustrated). February, 1918.
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“THE BELGIAN ARMY AT THE FLANDERS FRONT”
“‘In the belgian people we have our best allies’ as would say the british minster of foreign affaris ‘Its heroism will be noted throughout all of history as most notable and inspiring episode of a period so full of great deeds’. These words just had been confirmed with the magnificent resistance that they had put up on Flanders.
In the photographs here you can see: (1) and (2) A belgian sentinel wathches over a trench using a new helmet; (3) A belgian machinegun in action on the frontline”
Source: “A Guerra Illustrada”/”Lá Guerre Illustré”, August, 1918.
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“THE SUBTERRANEAN LIFE IN THE BRITISH FRONT”
A british soldier prepares to go underground with diging and oxygen equipment. P.S.: Note the little cage in his hand, it was used to hold a bird inside of it and take it underground. If the bird died, it would mean that there was no more oxygen in the tunel.
Source: “A Guerra Illustrada”/”La guerre Illustrée”, August, 1918.
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