Warfare in News

Posted on Monday 7th November

The Royal Air Force Museum have an online Book of Remembrance which visitors are invited to contribute to via the website .

Website users are given the opportunity to post an online memorial, including a photograph, commemorating the life of family member who was a former member of the Service.

When your message has been posted online by the Museum, it will be able to be viewed by visitors to this online exhibition. If you would like to upload a story but do not have a photograph, the museum will include a special 'RAF Poppy', as pictured.

Of further interest...

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ARMISTICE AND REMEMBRANCE DAY

Mon 14th November

A remembrance of those who gave their lives so we could live ours. Read article...

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Disabled Veterans remember the Fallen

Fri 18th November

Disabled veterans from The Royal Star & Garter Homes paid tribute to the Fallen at several Remembrance events, in the centenary year of the Battle of the Somme and the Charity’s own Centenary. Read article...

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Pilots of the Caribbean

Thu 17th April

A description of the RAF Museum London's latest exhibition 'Pilots of the Caribbean' by curator Peter Devitt, delving into the stories of black volunteers across two World Wars. Read article...

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Wittmann versus Ekins

Wed 17th May

With the opening of the Tiger exhibition at the Tank Museum in Dorset it was inevitable that the discredited TV theory that tanks of the 27th Sherbrooke Fusiliers knocked out the German panzer ace Michael Wittmann would resurface somewhere. Read article...

Dates in History

WWI: Germans use poison gas for the first time

22nd April 1915

German forces shock Allied soldiers along the Western Front by firing 168 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French divisions and one Canadian division at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line. Immediately after the attack, France and Britain began developing their own chemical weapons and gas masks. With the Germans taking the lead, an extensive number of projectiles filled with deadly substances such as mustard gas polluted the trenches of World War I.

Further Reading

Magnificent But Not War
(Hardback - 224 pages)
by John Dixon

This book is a superbly researched and detailed account of the fighting around Ypres during April and May 1915. It is essentially a day-by-day record of the Second Battle of Ypres which draws heavily upon personal accounts, regimental histories and war diaries to present a comprehensive study of the battle… Read more at Pen & Sword...

Only £25.00 at Pen & Sword Books.

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