Portal:World War I/Did you know
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- ...that the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s (pictured) for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?
- ...that Kenneth Cummins was one of the last 5 confirmed British surviving veterans of World War I , having served in the Royal and Merchant Navies in the First and Second World War respectively?
- ...that The War Illustrated was a WWI magazine first published eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany?
- ...that the Royal Navy operated a secret training and anti-submarine warfare base at Seacliff in Scotland during World War I?
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- ...that the USS Grebe survived both World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor, only to be destroyed by a hurricane in 1943?
- ...that Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance?
- ...that the Royal Air Force ordered 1,291 De Havilland DH.10s (pictured) for use in World War I, but they were only used in a single bombing mission before the armistice ended the fighting?
- ...that Germany built two merchant submarines (pictured) in World War I to trade for valuable raw materials with the United States?
- ...that the Australian steamer TSS Kanowna (pictured) was requisitioned twice during World War I, first as a troopship and then as a hospital ship?
- ...at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser?
- ...that the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden, a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I?
- ...that the Belgian military leader Herman Baltia (pictured) exhibited his watercolour paintings on the Yser Front while he was serving as a commander in World War I?
- ...that German sailor Max Reichpietsch, who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große, was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy?
- ...that Kenneth Cummins was one of the last 5 confirmed British surviving veterans of World War I , having served in the Royal and Merchant Navies in the First and Second World War respectively?
- ...that The Cenotaph is Singapore's first major war memorial built in memory of the people who gave their lives in World War I, and was unveiled by the young Prince Edward of Wales, later King Edward VIII?
- ...that The War Illustrated was a WWI magazine first published eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany?
- ...that David B. Barkley (pictured), who drowned in the Meuse River, France after completing a scouting mission behind enemy lines during World War I, was the U.S. Army's first Hispanic Medal of Honor recipient?
- ...that U.S. Army General James Harbord, who commanded the United States Marine Corps' 4th Marine Brigade at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I, was President of RCA in the 1920s when it formed NBC and RKO Pictures?
- ... that French poet and novelist Louis Pergaud was a pacifist who was killed in action during World War I in 1915?
- ...that Hell Below, a 1933 World War I film, set the pattern for many WW II submarine dramas, and featured the deliberate sinking of USS Moody, slated for destruction by the London Naval Treaty?
- ...that the Lake Tanganyika passenger ferry MV Liemba began its life as a German warship in World War I, spent eight years on the bottom of the lake, and later portrayed the Empress Luisa in the film The African Queen?
- ...that a bull terrier named Stubby attained the rank of sergeant during World War I?
- ...that the Royal Navy operated a secret training and anti-submarine warfare base at Seacliff in Scotland during World War I?
- ...that the Allies broke through the largest German entrenched position in World War One at the Battle of the Hindenburg Line?
- ...that Flora Sandes, who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I?
