Behind Their Lines
Poetry of the Great War
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
A Soldier's Candid Opinion
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Doiran Cemetery, Greece photo from Researching the Lives and Service Records of FWW Soldiers “His major wrote that he was a brave and resol...
Sunday, April 24, 2022
To Tony, Aged 3
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The Great Offensive, Samuel Begg ( Illustrated London News, 1916) In 1918, shortly after the death of her brother on the Western Front, Marj...
Friday, April 22, 2022
And what is war?
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Lt. Arthur Greg, Quarry Bank archive, NT On April 23, 1917, 2Lt Arthur T. Greg was killed in aerial combat over St. Quentin, France. He was ...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The Pageant of War
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Parade to War, Allegory by John Steuart Curry (1938) In 1916, British author Margaret Sackville published a collection of poems titled The ...
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Returning Soldiers
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Unidentified African American soldier Library of Congress, 2021653121 When American entered the Great War, many African Americans supported ...
Saturday, January 29, 2022
"My good lady, go home and sit still"
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Mary HJ Henderson, 1917 In spring of 1918, Mary H.J. Henderson published a small collection of poetry, In War and Peace, Songs of a Scotswo...
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Life weeps and shreds her garments
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Harvard's First World War memorial In May of 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Germany, French general Joseph Joffr...
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