WW1 Articles
The Remembrance Poppy
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This is the story behind the internationally recognized symbol of Remembrance of the red field poppy. Through the inspiration of one American woman, Moina Michael, this delicate flower has become synonymous with the Remembrance of those who lost their lives in war. Expanding on Moina's idea of the Memorial Poppy it was a French woman by the name of Anna Guérin who developed the idea of using the poppy to raise funds for supporting those affected by war.
Read the story behind the PoppyBattle Remains on the Western Front
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An article discussing the sorts of battle remains to be found on the Western Front. This includes bunkers, shell holes, trenches and the assorted ammunition still being dug up by farmers as they plough the fields more than 90 years later.
Read more on Battle remainsGerman Military Burials in Belgium
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By the end of 1918 there were thousands of German soldiers buried in 678 districts of Belgium. This article explains why they were exhumed and reintered in collecting cemeteries so that the German war dead of 1914-1918 could be cared for on Belgian soil.
Read more on German collecting cemeteriesWar Graves for WW1 Dead on The Western Front
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From the early weeks of the fighting on the Western Front the number of war dead was already rising into the tens of thousands. This text gives the background to the burial of military dead in individual marked graves from the 1914-1918 war and why, ironically, so many of the casualties are still recorded as “Missing”.
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(1) and (2) Original photographs courtesy of Bridgeen Fox (private collection).