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Ancestry site puts Hitler's war service online
Source: Reuters

A British genealogy website has put Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's World War One military service records online, alongside those of more than a million other soldiers who fought for Germany.

Last Surviving US Veteran of The Great War, Now 108, fights for WWI memorial
Source: BBC News

The last surviving US veteran of World War I has urged members of Congress to rededicate a Washington monument to the memory of his fellow combatants. Frank Buckles, 108, said the US capital needed a symbol to honour all those who fought in the Great War.

Germany and France Celebrate Armistice Day Together
Source: BBC News

This year will be the first time a German chancellor has ever participated in the commemoration of Armistice Day, when Germany was defeated in France.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Turkey, Armenia to restore ties
Source: BBC News

From the BBC website Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country will sign a deal to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia on 10 October.

Happy birthday, Harry Patch: Last veteran of the trenches turns 111
Source: Independent.co.uk

On the night of 22 September 1917, near Langemarck in Belgium, a German gun crew fired a shell in the general direction of the British lines. It hit three men serving with a Lewis gun team. None of their remains were ever found.

Veteran is UK's oldest ever man.
Source: BBC News

The UK's oldest man has reached a new milestone by becoming the oldest ever British man, after clocking up 112 years and 296 days. Henry Allingham has lived longer than Welshman John Evans, who died in 1990 aged 112 years and 295 days.

The trembling ace
Source: BBC News

The air aces of World War I - like the Red Baron - left a rich mythology that persists to the present day. But the man who was, perhaps, Britain's best pilot, remains little known.

Wreck of the French Battleship Danton found in deep water
Source: BBC News

"Its condition is extraordinary," said Rob Hawkins, project director with Fugro GeoConsulting Limited.

The Pause That Depresses
Source: The New York Times

...In 1916, with the United States on the brink of entering World War I, Woodrow Wilson seemed likely to lose his bid for re-election...

From Armistice Day to Veterans Day - Faces and Stories from the Great War

Veterans Day was once called Armistice Day, established to honor the millions of dead from World War One, or as it was known at the time, the Great War.

Sex and the Somme: How British soldiers found solace in the arms of local girls
Source: the Mail online

As dusk descended on the little French village, casting its shadows over the war-ravaged countryside all around, a British clergyman marched up to the door of the local brothel, pushed it open and strode angrily inside.

View From The Porch-Today In History: How not to say "Thank You".
Source: booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com

On this day in 1932, President Hoover ordered the United States Army to evict the Bonus Marchers, a mass protest by unemployed World War One veterans in Washington, D.C.

History Sleuths Probe Black Soldiers' Flag, Fake Painting: TV
Source: Bloomberg.com

``History Detectives,'' now starting its sixth season on PBS, provides a cool antidote to this summer's overheated political yak. There's no ranting or raving, though there are plenty of reminders that treachery and buffoonery are hardly modern inventions.

BBC NEWS | UK | Remains found at WWI 'mass grave'
Source: BBC News

Archaeologists in France excavating the suspected mass grave of hundreds of British and Australian World War I soldiers have found human remains.

What Investors Can Learn From World War I
Source: TheStreet.com

Nearly ninety years ago, the leaders of the western world met in Paris to remake the globe -- in their own image.

Graves of French-Muslim WWI Soldiers Defaced With a Pigs Head and Anti Islamic Slogans
Source: BBC News

Vandals have desecrated 148 Muslim graves in France's biggest WWI cemetery, officials have said. A pig's head was hung from one headstone and slogans insulting Islam and France's Muslim justice minister were daubed on other graves.

Last French World War I Veteran Dies
Source: AOL

PARIS (March 12) - France's last remaining veteran of World War I died Wednesday at age 110 after outliving 8.4 million Frenchmen who fought in what they called "la Grande Guerre..."The article also has a picture of Frank Woodruff Buckles who is 107 and lives in Charles Town, Wes …

France's final WWI veteran dies
Source: BBC News

France's last surviving veteran of World War One, Lazare Ponticelli, has died at the age of 110.

And Then There Was One -- Frank Buckles at 107 is the last surviving American WWI Veteran
Source: CNN

Harry Richard Landis, who enlisted in the Army in 1918 and was one of only two known surviving U.S. veterans of World War I, has died. He was 108. Harry Richard Landis, one of only two surviving vets of WWI, died Monday at 108.

Last German soldier to fight in First World War, dies peacefully.
Source: the Mail online

They're nearly all gone now, those brave old soldiers who survived that terrible carnage.

WWI 'blogger' captures attention
Source: CNN

In many ways he's a typical war blogger: William Henry "Harry" Bonser Lamin's descriptions of grueling battles compete with complaints about cramped quarters and apologies for his irregular updates.

And Then There Were Two -- Oldest Surviving American World War I Veteran Dies, Only 2 Left Out of 4.7 Million
Source: glennsacks.com

There are now only two American World War I veterans left--two out of 4.7 million. Kelly, a reader, sent me the article below, writing "When I was a boy, every father was a World War Two or Korean War veteran. Every grandfather was a World War One veteran.

Pelosi and Congress Botch U.S. - Turkey Relations
Source: msnbc.com

Turkey's top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resolution that labels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide.

Gunfight Erupts In Turkish Town
Source: AL JAZEERA

Turkish troops and Kurdish fighters have exchanged gunfire in the Turkish town of Unuderi close to the Turkey-Iraq border. The gunfight came as the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said its fighters are moving from northern Iraq back into southern Turkey where they intend to tar …

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