Behind Their Lines

  Red Cross Hospital #6-7, Souilly France (Oct. 1918)  Library of Congress, Signal Corps On the night of January 19, 1919, a sentry on the d...

Charing Cross Station Detraining Wounded Lobley J Hodgson,  ©IWM ART2758 In early May of 1916, Helen Mackay recorded in her wartime journal,...

  An Ode to a Cootie, sketch by Pvt. Walter R. Sabel National WWI museum The French called them totos ; the British called them coddlers ; t...

How bad were lice infestations in the First World War? One soldier’s shirt “was found to contain 10,428 lice, and more than 10,000 eggs were...

The Harvest Moon, Harvey Dunn (Smithsonian AF.25720 )   Words are soldiers of fortune Hired by different ideas To provide an importance for ...

Harvard's First World War memorial  In May of 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Germany, French general Joseph Joffr...

The Deluge (1920) by Winifred Knights The Tate Museum, T05532 Over a century after the end of the First World War, “Lest We Forget” is an of...

Missouri Digital Heritage, Springfield Greene County Public Library  In her essay “A stupid mule is still smarter than a good horse, or a ba...

Kenneth MacLeish, c. 1917 On October 14, 1918, American aviator Kenneth MacLeish, attached to British Squadron 213, was on patrol over Belgi...

AEF soldier of the 319th  In October of 1918, the First World War was entering its fifth year and the influenza pandemic was killing millio...

Royal Irish Rifle Troops at the Somme, July 1, 1916 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his...