Part of front page of newspaper with photo of woman in hat. THE WORKERS' DREADNOUGHT For International Socialism. Vol. V. No. 50 SATURDAY, MARCH 8th, 1919 Price Twopence. LIEBKNECHT and LUXEMBURG: How They Died.
#OTD 8 March 1919 Sylvia Pankurst's newspaper The Workers' Dreadnought reported the murders of Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht.
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The fence was never repaired. I was leading a battlefield tour through Arnhem today and this is always a quiet but effective stop. The fighting here wasn't in open fields. It was in people's front gardens.
A residential garden fence in Oosterbeek, peppered with bullet and shrapnel damage from September 1944. The 1st Airborne Division's shrinking perimeter ran through these streets during the last days of Market Garden.
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Camberwick Green (7th March 1966). Mr Dagenham - a man who can sell you anything - is the star of today's episode.
Twenty-year-old Private Thomas Jenkins of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry was wounded and suffering from trench fever when he was brought to the Red Cross Hospital at Corsham, where he died in March 1917.
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The Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen. Only the towers remain. On 7 March 1945, troops from the 9th Armored Division reached the Rhine here and found it still standing. Every other bridge had been destroyed.
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Leonid Brezhnev in the United States, driving a Lincoln Continental he had just received as a gift. In the passenger seat is US President Richard Nixon, 1973
"A street scene in London", Soviet painting by Raisa Dmitrievna Zenkova
In the latest Old Front Line Questions & Answers we ask how WW1 cemetery headstones are aligned, what happened to leftover artillery shells in 1918, who were Officers’ servants (batmen) in the British Army & discuss WW1 salvage.
Hadleigh war memorial tablet. Second World War.
Hadleigh war memorial tablet. St. Mary’s Church, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Second World War. #LestWeForget
First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev and Finnish President Urho Kekkonen during a hunt on the territory of a hunting farm in the Odintsovo District of the Moscow Region. 1963. Photo by Vasily Egorov
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A wreath placed at the funeral of Private Alfred Bromley read: “To my darling husband, from his heart-broken wife and children.” He died at the base hospital in 1919, aged 28, having spent four and a half years in the army.
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Remembering John Noakes, born this day in 1934.
PERSON OF THE DAY. 6 March 1961. Wigan-born entertainer George Formby died (aged 56). Over 100,000 people lined his funeral route. In the 1930s he was the most popular entertainer in the UK. His songs were full of risqué double entendres. A typical example was My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock.
FACT OF THE DAY. 6 March 1987. Cross-channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise, setting out from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, bound for Dover, capsized killing 193 passengers and crew. A bow-door was left open before its departure. It’s Britain’s worst peacetime maritime disaster since 1919.
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On 6th March 1901 in Bremen, shipyard worker Dietrich Weiland attempted to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm II (pic).
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Fawlty Towers (5th March 1979). Basil deals with a volley of guest complaints in his usual unique fashion.
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