The first British soldier to die in action in WW1 was a cyclist, and Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian army cycle messenger. Cyclist battalions formed an important part of the Allied and German armies ...

Forensic scientists just achieved what was deemed to be impossible by identifying an unknown soldier who fell in WWI. Found 85 years after the World War 1 battle by French archeologists, the ...

SKELETONS of 125 World War One soldiers have been found entombed in a perfectly preserved battlefield 101 years after they fell in combat, it emerged today. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of … ...

A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.

The young German soldier has his rifle slung over his shoulder, a half-eaten sandwich in his left hand and a drinking cup in his right. As he steps to the refreshment window, a woman in a white ...

Soldiers recall how war turned ordinary people into killers, sometimes provoking feelings of excitement, at other times shame. Suitable for Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, GCSE, Third Level, Fourth ...

The last soldier to be killed in action during the First World War was Henry Nicholas John Gunther. An American soldier, he died on November 11, 1918 at 10.59am, just one minute before the ...

Read Burials for soldiers of WW1 latest on ITV News. All the Tuesday 23rd April 2013 news Burials will take place today for two WW1 soldiers killed in action almost 100 years ago and later ...

Hilliard man recounts springing into action after neighbor on motorcycle hit by 14-year-old ATV driver. ... German-Jewish soldier in WWI ended up fighting the Nazis alongside US Army in WWII.

New research by the BBC's Timewatch tells the story of some of the last to fall in WWI. The final British soldier to be killed in action was Private George Edwin Ellison. At 9.30am Pte Ellison of the ...

Bolt Action Rifle; EXPLORATION: ... have students select one of the following handouts to complete to compare the way of life for American and German soldiers during WWI.

World War One broke out on 28 July, 1914. Fifty years later, one of the German soldiers, Stefan Westmann, told the BBC about his experiences fighting in the conflict.