The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was fought between the Allies and the German Empire in the First World War.
Part of the larger Battle of Pilckem Ridge, Passchendaele began on the 31st of July, 1917.
This photograph, taken on that first day, shows German prisoners and British wounded crossing a canal near Boesinghe (Boezinge) in Belgium.
The only undisputed portrait of Emily Brontë, painted by her brother.
English writer Emily Brontë, famous for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, was born on the 30th of July, 1818.
Her famous book was first published in 1847. Brontë died the following year, at only thirty years of age.
28th July 1941: Red Army soldiers captured by the Nazis during food distribution at a camp in occupied Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
In contrast to their treatment of British and American prisoners, the Germans employed a policy of deliberately mistreating Soviet prisoners of war, which resulted in 3-3.5 million deaths – an estimated 57% of all soldiers captured.
Smoko time with the AWLA
Inspired by Britain’s Women’s Land Army, the Australian Women’s Land Army was created on the 27th of July, 1942. The organisation was formed to combat shortages in the farming industry as the Second World War intensified.
Though Australia had been fighting in the war since 1939, once Japan entered the conflict in 1941, threatening the Pacific, many Australian men were drafted into the army, leaving shortages at home.
Field Officer Mrs Mellor ties a papier-mâché cow used in milking demonstrations to the back of her car in Melbourne. 1944.
Women who joined the AWLA took over men’s jobs in the agricultural sector. In order to be eligible for the work women were required to be between eighteen and fifty, and to be either of British origin or to be from a member of the Allied nations.
Women were paid significantly less than men for the same work.
The AWLA was disbanded on the 31st of December, 1945.
This painting depicts Napoleon making his way through the Russian Empire. He is seen here in the town of Beshankovichy, in modern-day Belarus, on the 24th of July, 1812.
In this image, dated the 23rd of July, 1941, troops of the 8th Battalion, The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, abandon bicycles to advance along a country lane in Weybourne, Norfolk, England.
The exercise, taking place two years into the Second World War, was part of anti-invasion training.
Weybourne was considered to be at serious risk of invasion during the war, and the area was prepared accordingly, including the laying of mines along the coast.
This photograph is dated the 22nd of July, 1943, and shows members of Britain’s Royal Air Force 617 Squadron “dam busters” at Scampton, Lincolnshire.
All of the men in the picture were killed a few weeks later, when they were shot down during the raid on the Dortmund-Ems Canal in September.
Their names are:
The Hughes family of 129 Railway Street, Armagh, Northern Ireland pose in military-style clothing on the 19th of July, 1945. Less than a month later VJ Day (the surrender of Japan) occurred, effectively ending the Second World War.
The extensive archives of photographers H. Allison & Co., based in County Armagh, are now available through Wikimedia Commons.
The Carrickfergus Model School in County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) is seen here on the 19th of July, 1907. The school opened in the Victorian era, and is still running today.
The coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom, the flamboyant and infamous son of “Mad” King George, took place on the 19th of July, 1821.
The Coronation as painted by watercolourist James Stephanoff.
The new King had served as Prince Regent through the final years of the Napoleonic Wars as his father’s health had continued to decline, a period that was marked by great excess and frivolity amongst the upper classes.
The Coronation Procession winds its way through a park in London.
Though he married, George IV and his wife, Caroline, intensely disliked each other, and she was barred from attending the ceremonies.
Their only child, the Princess Charlotte, had died in childbirth in 1817, which eventually paved the way for the long reign of Queen Victoria.
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