LATHAM, N.Y. – Sgt. Henry Johnson, the Albany resident whose World War I service in the New York National Guard’s 369th Infantry Regiment was recognized with the Medal of Honor almost a ...

Dan Snow compares the food rations for a British soldier in WW1 with those for a German. ... food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had.

Forgotten WW1 battle in PNG reveals German surprise Commemorations this week will mark the Australian engagement and the soldiers who fought and died in the then German colony of New Guinea in 1914.

He was 26 years old, 5-foot-4, weighed 130 pounds and came from Albany, New York. And on the night of May 15, 1918, Pvt. Henry Johnson, a member of the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment, found ...

High-level Australian government and military officials travelled to Papua New Guinea this month to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle of Bita Paka, near Rabaul—the first ...

News; UK News; World War I; German soldier asked British troops who won FA cup during WW1, letters show Sapper Thomas Winter of 456th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers, sent his sister ...

Revealed: How English and German soldiers bonded during WWI Christmas Day Truce by telling jokes about the FRENCH. Lance Corporal Willie Loasby instigated the remarkable act of humanity ...

Commemorations in PNG and Australia will mark the 100th anniversary of engagement on 11 September 1914 and the soldiers who fought and were the first to die for their country in the First World War.

“It can seem surprising, even extraordinary, particularly when we know that Henry Johnson was a small man – he was only 1m70, and weighed 58 kilograms,” Thomas Saintourens, author of a ...