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.
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.
Today is the 101st anniversary of the Chilwell munitions factory explosion, when 134 people were killed and another 250 injured in England during the First World War.
Chilwell became known for its “Canary girls“, women who worked in dangerous conditions constructing TNT shells for the British military. Photographs of the women were used to promote the British war effort.
Eight tons of TNT blew up in the disaster, and the explosion was heard twenty miles away. Because so few victims were identified a mass grave now stands nearby.
The site of the factory became a military installation, which will close in 2021.
30th March 1918: Britain’s King George V, escorted by Lieutenant Colonel Reginald B. Rickman, inspects troops who survived the Battle of Bullecourt the previous year. The photograph was taken in Hermin, France in the final year of the First World War.
Part of the bigger Second Battle of Arras between the German and British Empires, the conflict claimed hundreds of thousands of casualties.
This painting, created in 1919, shows the German fleet surrendered in Scotland in 1918, eleven days after the end of the First World War. The caption by Britain’s Imperial War Museum is below:
The German Fleet at Anchor off Inchkeith, Firth of Forth – after the Surrender, 22nd November 1918.
These images were taken in London in early November of 1918, as the First World War drew to a close.
On the 5th of the month captured German field guns were put on display along the Mall, stretching from Admiralty Arch to Buckingham Palace.
On the 13th of November the guns were taken to Trafalgar Square, where people attempted to set them alight in a bonfire.
From the collection of the Imperial War Museums.
And a display on nearby Waterloo Place, St James’s.
From the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
The last shots to be fired before the armistice on the 11th of November, 1918. The end of the First World War.
11th November 1918: People crowd into Martin Place in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia to celebrate the armistice that ended the First World War.
Australia committed to the war from the outset in 1914, with 421,809 citizens serving in the military. 331,781 Australians served overseas during the conflict, a significant number for a country whose population numbered below five million in 1914.
The image is from the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
2nd November 1918: Nine days before the end of the First World War, British and Italian convoys pass abandoned Austro-Hungarian artillery on a mountain road.
The photograph was taken during the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, in Italy’s north.
The battle concluded the following day, marking both an Italian victory and the end of the war on the Italian front.
The coastal city of Ostend in Belgium – along with much of the rest of the country – was occupied by the Germans during the First World War. As the war began drawing to an end in October of 1918, the Germans destroyed buildings as they retreated on the 17th of October.
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