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Stories like this one are heartwarming. We know that Faith as a cat didn't understand anything about this award. But for the folks who created it, the medal (I think) was a symbol of their humanity in the face of war.

The Western Front Ass'n has just posted a fantastic presentation by Professor Gary Sheffield looking back at the 1914 & 1940 British Expeditionary Forces. Highly interesting and informative! #WW1 #WW2 #History @profgsheffield.bsky.social #WesternFront #BritishArmy #Tommy

Tanks: obsolete since 15 September 1916.😉

#OTD in 1917. The few men that returned, from Australian 8 Battalion, after participating in the opening push of the second battle of Passchendaele on 26 October. #WW1 #HISTORY

#Bordeaux’s Monument aux morts once again offers a stunning reminder of the scale of France’s First World War sacrifice. However, its location away from the centre-ville gave it a (perhaps unwarranted) feeling of neglect or, at least, marginal importance to the modern city. #1GM #FWWHist #WW1 #FWW

I love these crisp autumnal mornings and the smell of a big slash/leaf pile going up in flames. It only took me a morning to get rid of everything. I was fortunate to get it done before it rains tomorrow.

This story is emblematic of nearly everything that Trump & company touch. #milsky #History

A heckuva mission to the Big B and back in Target for Today. This was a case of making it home on a wing and a prayer. #wargames #TargetforToday #8thAF #B17 #FlyingFortress

Disturbed ranks amongst my favourite bands. Their haunting version of the classic sing "The Sound of Silence" is absolutely riveting. David Draiman's voice is the perfect vessel for the song, and gives the original a completely new twist. Highly recommended! #songsky #Disturbed #SoundofSilence

Happy Trafalgar Day! On this day in 1805 the greatest naval battle of the age of sail took place off the coast of Spain. #Nelson #RoyalNavy #FrenchNavy #SpanishNavy

110 years ago today, Oct 15, 1916. My great-grandfather’s company marched out of Albert at 8.30. He went ahead to look for billets, and wrote: “Bunked in a shack & jolly cold too.” robertsondiary.com/diary/1916/october#1916-10-15 #WWI #WW1 #CanadianHistory #TheGreatWar

This is my new mate Bertie. He’s a German shepherd mix my wife & I recently adopted. He’s such an amazing person! 😉

“Mud” by Gilbert Rogers, ca. 1919, #IWM Collection. This stark illustration captures perfectly the misery and exhaustion of trench warfare in the wet. #artsky #History #WW1 #milsky #BEF #Tommy #FWW

My thoughts are with our brothers and sisters in the Canadian Armed Forces following yesterday’s terrible tragedy at CFB Wainwright. #CAF #Canada #milsky

A breathtaking sunrise at Angels 35 above the Great Salt Lake and the Rocky Mountains.

I’ve been traveling this past week. It’s been the perfect time to re-read my copy of Professor Gary Sheffield’s outstanding book “Command and Morale.” Highly recommended! @profgsheffield.bsky.social #booksky #history #WW1 #BritishArmy

I'm almost finished with the brilliant memoir "Over the Top" by Arthur Lambert. This is an amusing vignette he relates about a prisoner in the Italian campaign that occurred in the autumn of 1918. It speaks for itself. Enjoy! #History #WW1 #FWWHist #Italy #HAC ##BEF #booksky

World War I is still relevant, as this tune demonstrates. Singer-songwriter Anita Joyce commemorates great uncle, killed in action in Flanders at age 19 on 13 October 1917. #WW1 #History #Passchendaele #Flandersfields #Tommy #WesternFront

My wife and I took the dogs out during the gloaming this evening. This was the view from my front yard. Oregon is such a beautiful part of the world. #PNW #photography #sunset #Oregon

"Storming Machine Gun" by George M. Harding, 1918, US Army Art Collection. Combat artist George Harding created stunning art based upon personal observation right up on the front lines in 2918. He provided a vivid record of #Yanks on the #WesternFront. #History #FWW #doughboys #tank

A visit (with Associate Grandson #2) to Edinburgh’s National Portrait Gallery and a brief encounter with familiar faces. #FWW #WW1 #FWWHist #Art

Seeing this photo, I can't help but think of the Púkel-men described by J.R.R. Tolkien in Return of the King. These stone figures lined the winding path up to Dunharrow and to my mind's eye resembled that statues in this photo. @gracekhuri.bsky.social

8 October 1918 - Battle of Cambrai. Men of the 20th Battalion, Manchester Regiment (25th Division) resting by a tank (serial number 9891), disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment. Near Premont. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

#OTD in 1918, Cambrai area, France. Soldiers from Loyal North Lancashire wearing pickelhaubes which were found whilst on patrol (see second picture, I think there's a correlation). #WW1 #HISTORY

This popped into my feed from @tabletopbill.bsky.social. I always enjoy his posts! Share a fictional character you wouldn't want to fuck with. My vote (Service Guarantees Citizenship ;o) is for Ship's Sergeant Zim!

Paul Reed at @oldfrontline.bsky.social has a brilliant new video in which he analyzes 30 photos from the 1914 BEF. This is another of Paul’s very enjoyable and informative programmes. Highly recommended! #History #BEF #WesternFront #Mons #LeCateau #BritishArmy #FWW #WW1

I'm currently listening to the audible version of #RotK, narrated by the great Andy Serkis. This is one of my favourite passages in #LotR. I've read it so many times, yet am still deeply moved by the reunion of two soldiers after battle. Pp. 892-93 of the 1991 edition. @gracekhuri.bsky.social

The Lost Battalion was an American unit that became separated from the American advance and surrounded by German forces. From Oct 2-7 1918 they resisted German attacks until an American force was able to relieve them. Of about 554 men 197 were lost, 150 taken prisoner and the remaining 194 rescued.

I recently picked up a copy of “Over the Top” by Arthur Lambert. The author served with the HAC on the Western Front. My copy originally belonged to Horace G. Sennitt, who was in the same unit. He carefully made notations on the margins throughout the book. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy

This was the view through my windscreen driving west at sunset. Just a beatiful evening! #Oregon #PNW #sunset

Indian Expeditionary Force A were absolute heroes in 1914. Their performance on the Western Front was first-rate.

Robert St John Smith over at the Wipers Times Exposé has written a story about one of the Great War's famous cartoons, "Am I as Offensive as I Might Be?" Concise yet detailed, it's a brilliant piece about the illustrator, Ernest James Couzens RE. #WW1 #FWW #History @chance1234.bsky.social

"At Rest" by Matt Gauldie, 2006, NZ National Army Museum. This striking yet somber piece shows a modern soldier with child at the National War Memorial (NewZealand) in #Wellington, #NZ. The simple and austere composition speaks to how we remember the fallen. #WW1 #GreatWar #combatart #kiwi #war

22 September 1918 Wilfred Owen writes to Siegfried Sassoon ‘You said it would be a good thing for my poetry if I went back. That is my consolation for feeling a fool. This is what the shells scream at me every time: Haven’t you got the wits to keep out of this? #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

"Mud Road to Passchendaele" by D.W. Culham, 1917, #CanadianWarMuseum collection. This magnificent piece depicts the 3rd Canadian Division Ammunition Column moving towards the front at night. #WW1 #FWWHist #History #Canadians #CEF #arty #artillery #ammunition

21 September 1914: The poem, "For the Fallen", by Robert Laurence Binyon, was published in The Times newspaper. #History #Poetry #WW1 "For the Fallen", by Robert Laurence Binyon: www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/lauren...

The Hell of Ieper in 1917, with the worst wet weather in 70 years. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Tanks went into battle for the first time #OTD in 1916 at at Flers-Courcelette during the Battle of the Somme. Many broke down or were disabled by German artillery, but they still had enough of an impact to change war forever. #tanks #history #WWI #WW1

#OTD in 1917 NURSES 👇🧵 ‘The Angel’ #Illustration by Franz (Frank) Xavier Leyendecker (1877-1924) ‘The Red Cross Nurse by Arthur Hunt Chute [1890-1929]’ *Leslie’s*, Sept. 16, 1917 #illustrationart #illustrationartists #FrankXLeyendecker #nursing #RedCross #WW1 #ArthurHuntChute

On Day 6 of our #HeritageOpenDays exhibition: #BeyondTheUniform Ten Lives in Ten Days, we tell the story of Piper Daniel Laidlaw, VC. He led the hesitant men of 7/KOSB into action by playing their Regimental March. We are displaying the Bible he was carrying on that day.

This is a fantastic article about just one of the countless heroes of 9/11.