This painting, titled The Homecoming from Gallipoli, 15 July 1915, is by New Zealand artist Walter Armiger Bowring (1874 – 1931). It depicts soldiers returning home from the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War.
2779 New Zealanders – one-sixth of those who fought – died in the campaign.
Christmas Day in the London Bridge Canteen depicts HRH Princess Helena Victoria, creator and Chairman of the Ladies’ Auxiliary Committee of the YMCA paying a visit to workers during the First World War.
The princess, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was one of a number of royals to drop German names from her title at the outbreak of the war. She never married, but went on to live through both World Wars.
The image was created by war artist Clare Atwood in 1920. Atwood, an unusual woman for her time, was a known lesbian who lived in a ménage à trois relationship with two other women until their deaths.
As today is Remembrance Day, here’s an image of British Army Sherwood Foresters keeping warm while waiting for lunch during the Battle of the Somme (First World War). The battle claimed over a million casualties over the 140 days it was fought.
Wounded soldiers of the British Army await transport to hospital near Albert, Somme on the 12th of September, 1916 in this photograph by Ernest Brooks.
The infamous Battle of the Somme, part of the First World War, began on the 1st of July and continued until the 18th of November.
The 24th of August is Ukrainian Independence (such as it is now) Day.
Here is the tryzub – the trident of Ukraine – printed over a Russian stamp during Ukraine’s struggle for independence during the fall of the Russian Empire and the formation of the Soviet Union. Circa 1918.
Ukrainians are photographed harvesting in Separator, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1915.
At this point in time Ukrainians were forced to register as “enemy aliens”, and many were put into concentration camps to perform forced labour during World War One.
British soldiers pose for a photograph after the Battle of Albert, part of the opening phase of the infamous First World War Battle of the Somme, in July of 1916. The men wear helmets they captured from the Germans, and sit with a dog they found in a dugout.
July 1910: A newsboy and newsgirl sell papers around saloon entrances in Bowery, Manhattan, New York City.
1910 in New York saw the first public radio broadcast – live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci from the Metropolitan Opera House, and the second ever NAACP meeting.
The photograph was taken by Lewis Wickes Hine.
4th July 1918: The Untied States’ Independence Day is celebrated with a parade on New York City’s Fifth Avenue.
Behind the man marching is Cornelius Vanderbilt II House, on the corner of 57th Street, which was demolished in 1927 to build the Bergdorf Goodman department store
From the collection of the Library of Congress.
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie ride in an open carriage in Sarajevo on the 28th of June, 1914. Soon afterwards, while on this carriage journey, they were assassinated by Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip.
The assassinations sparked the First World War.
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