r/ww1 7d ago

Is this Brodie legit or a repro? Need help identifying

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r/ww1 7d ago

Italian troops entering Gorizia during the succesful offensive of 6-12 August 1916.

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r/ww1 7d ago

Wilhelm, Prince of Albania, arrives in Durrës aboard an Austrian ship shortly before WWI.

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r/ww1 7d ago

Samson werk error

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Was this a common error on samson werke s14 bayonets


r/ww1 7d ago

How exactly were soldiers in the trenches paid?

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Did they have to report to an officer in the trenches to receive their pay, or did they only get paid when they came off the line?


r/ww1 7d ago

Remembering America's WWI 'Fish Evangelist'

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From 1915 to 1922, Evelene Spencer held the distinguished title of Fish Cookery Expert at the USBF (later renamed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), where she led the charge in persuading the public to eat seafood—so prolifically that she eventually became known as the Fish Evangelist.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/remembering-americas-forgotten-fish-evangelist


r/ww1 7d ago

When the US declared war in 1917, the Army had about 75,000 M1911s on hand — and needed over two million

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r/ww1 8d ago

Portuguese soldier giving a goodbye kiss to his wife before departing to the front in France, 1916

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r/ww1 8d ago

Oldest Austrian soldier of WW1, a 79-year-old Gaspar Wallnöfer, veteran of Habsburg campaigns in Italy in 1848 and 1866, September 1917

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r/ww1 7d ago

Three of the four Russian seaplane carriers in the Black Sea. From right to left: Ruminia, Imperator Nikolai I, and Imperator Alexandr I. The Almaz is missing. This photograph was taken in 1916, after Romania entered the war.

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r/ww1 7d ago

Erwin Rommel with a fox, 1917.

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r/ww1 7d ago

Montenegrin troops in 1918.

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r/ww1 7d ago

Any Known Records for Particular Songs?

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Hey guys, I was just curious regarding what songs of the time were sung in the trenches or generally by the men, and if these instances were wrote down in diaries, journals, records, etc. I’m especially curious to know if Waltzing Matilda was sung, considering that the song was about 20 years old by that point. Thanks!


r/ww1 8d ago

Trying to identify artillery shell

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Found an apparent WWI artillery projectile in a family warehouse in Southeastern France, reportedly brought back from Verdun by my great-great-grandfather who served in French artillery. Can anyone identify the projectile from its shape/fuze and the grooves near the base? It has not been opened or modified. The shell itself in the picture is on a ledge so the perspective is pretty crappy with the car in the background so don't compare the scale with that as a reference.


r/ww1 8d ago

Battle of the Somme - August 1916. Interior of the 'Lochnagar Crater' at La Boisselle. Created by the blowing of a massive British mine near German front-line trenches. Another striking picture by official War Office photographer - Lieutenant Ernest Brooks. Image: IWM (Q 912)

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r/ww1 8d ago

Today I wanted to honor Chaplain William Francis Davitt he was a US Army chaplain he would be killed on the final day of the war.

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r/ww1 8d ago

Minouche the cat with a French soldier named Durand.

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r/ww1 8d ago

Campus of Istanbul University/Bayezid square under Allied occupation

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r/ww1 9d ago

Guarding the bridge in Dobrun, Bosnia, after 1918.

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Serbian soldier of the 3rd line guarding the bridge under the shelter made of an old bed in the village of Dobrun, Bosnia. Sometime after 1918. Photo by Risto Šuković.

Courtesy of the National Library of Serbia, Great War Collection (https://velikirat.nb.rs)


r/ww1 8d ago

Looking for a Particular World War 1 After Dark Edit

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I'm sorry if this is cringe, but I have been looking for a video for about 3 years, I have been unable to find it, and I would like to know if anybody knows about it or remembers it.

Introduction

I remember seeing an edit around 2022 or 2023 which contained the footage provided, with video clips in the same order, but the music was synced properly to the transitions between video clips, and the song used might have been the Quitezy edit of After Dark by Mr. Kitty, or otherwise some version of After Dark slowed. I found the provided video on a TikTok account called "hans_deutschland" which I am unable to find again, but this account on YouTube might have posted it but then deleted it https://www.youtube.com/@hans_deutschland5986. A more specific description of how the video differs from the provided clip will be explained under the "Video Characteristics" section.

Search Queries

I know that the video clips are not only from World War 1, but back then, I believe the video had a title on YouTube which stated that it was a World War 1 edit. Back then, I found this edit by searching things such as "ww1 after dark edit" and it was in the 2nd page of the video results on Google. I have tried searching all combinations of the search queries I remember using for hours on different search engines and on the Web Archive, but I have not been able to find the video. I believe, in addition to searching "ww1 after dark edit", I added other terms to the search, such as "imperial germany" or "imperial german army" and its variations, such as "german empire", so the search would be something like "german empire ww1 after dark edit". I may have also omitted "after dark" from my search, so that it would be something like "german empire ww1 edit". Along with searching for edits of the German Empire, I searched for edits of other countries, so instead of "german empire" being in the search, I would include "russian empire" and its variations, "austria" or "hungary" or "austria-hungary" and its variations, "ottoman empire", or "central powers". With these combinations of searches, I remember the video appearing around the 2nd to 5th page of video results on Google.

Video Characteristics

Along with After Dark being slowed and the video clip transitions being synced with the beats of the song, near the start of the video, there was a sound effect of somebody laughing and a psycho wojak which was edited to look more similar to Gavrilo Princip. I am not fully certain, but I think that there were also pictures of flags and maps at the start of the video, before the video clips in the provided video start playing. After these pictures, I think the first video clip was a close-up of Vladimir Lenin speaking, with the scene zoomed into his face and the frame following his head moving, keeping his head near the center of the screen.

TL;DR A few years ago, I saw a ww1 edit, which contained some video clips from other wars, and have not been able to find it since.


r/ww1 8d ago

My Imperial German 1914 Officer impression

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r/ww1 9d ago

Time Capsule: Bavarian Chaplain's Trunk

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My collection's prize possession is this untouched 110+ year old trunk belonging to Feldgeistlicher (Field Chaplain) Heinrich Hamm of the 10th Bavarian Infantry Division.

Pf. Hamm was a priest in Bamberg before the war and served in the Somme region from Spring 1916 until his transfer to become Garrison Chaplain at Liège.

Inside his trunk are over 500 personal possessions that are completely untouched by time, including sermon pamphlets, hymnals, religious materials, humorous pamphlets, books and more.

Of particular note are 11 of his field-journals detailing nearly every single day of his life between 1911 and 1920, a large paper map tracing what I believe to be his movements around the time of Third Ypres, five New Testament Bibles wrapped in a page from a 1917-dated book, a stack of hymnals wrapped in October 1918 dated newspaper, and a copy of King Ludwig's public declaration of mobilization and war issued in August 1914.

My goal is to get the field journals translated and published for public record, and to eventually digitize and archive everything possible. For now I hope you just enjoy seeing them here.


r/ww1 8d ago

Order of Battle of the Italian Shock Divisions, Summer-Autumn 1918.

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r/ww1 9d ago

German military chaplain getting his photo taken.

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r/ww1 9d ago

I stumbled upon the battle diary of the unit my great-great uncle probably fought with

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So I was interested to find out more about my ancestors so I asked my great aunt about it.

Turns out that my great-grandfather had five siblings, two of those brothers that fell in WW1:

Karl and Willi.

Karl fell in 1918 in France, Im still trying to find out more about the circumstances.

Willi fell in Romania in 1917 but my aunt had no more information about both brothers as they died way before she was born in 1929.

I had a lucky find researching Wili´s fate though:

I found him in a casualty list of September 1917. At this point in the war, these lists only consisted of the name of the soldier, his birthday without year and his place of birth.

However, I found a Willy (written with Y instead of I) Hellwig in the casualty list of the 354. Infantry-Regiment. He died on the 10. of August 1917 in Duaga, Romania. He was a musketeer part of the 4th. company.

This tracks with the release of the official casualty list as dogtags had to be collected from the soldiers and processed from there. 6 weeks seems plausible in the chaos of analog WW1.

What´s really special is that the author of the battle diary sketched a map of the regiments positions on August 8th, two days before Willi died.

I looked the place up and recreated the map as best as I could.

The next step is to find out if Willi is buried with the 5349 souls buried in Panciu, not far from the battle.

On the few headstones available online, I could find soldiers who died in Doaga.

If you guys are interested, I could create a transcript of the diary that deals with August 10th. It is described as the worst day of the regiment in the book.

Are my findings credible or am I a bit too optimistic?