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Diver purchases 3,300-ton WWI shipwreck off Cornwall for £300 via Facebook

The SS Almond Branch was sunk by a German submarine's torpedo in 1917 near Cornwall.

 Diver purchases 3,300-ton WWI shipwreck off Cornwall for £300 via Facebook
 Remains of 22 WWI soldiers exhumed in Ypres.

Remains of 22 WWI soldiers exhumed in Ypres

 A shipwreck from World War I. The ship was used during Gallipoli Campaign by British Troops in Turkey. Archaeonavall.

Morocco identifies preliminary sites of nine WWI shipwrecks off southern coast

A Palestinian police man walks between the graves of thousands of allied soldiers who died in the bloody Battle of Gaza during World War One at the Commonwealth War Gaza Cemetery in the Gaza Strip. More than 3,000 fallen soldiers came from Britain, New Zealand, India, South Africa and the West Indie

Pre-Oct. 7 Hamas plan revealed: Dig up WWI, WWII graves and blackmail Britain - report


Anti-Israel activists deface WWI, Civil War memorials, burn US flag

Anti-Israel activists vandalized American war memorials during a New York protest, burning the flag. Mayor condemned vandalism, offering rewards for arrests.

 Memorial statue defaced by anti-Israel activists in New York. (Illustrative) Uploaded on 8/5/2024

On This Day: WWI's 1914 Christmas Truce begins

Soldiers stopped fighting on multiple battlefields on Christmas Eve in an improvised truce that lasted the whole of Christmas.

 British and German soldiers play soccer together during the WWI Christmas Truce of 1914.

How much alcohol did British soldiers drink while stationed in Israel during WWI?

Hundreds of glass alcohol bottles from a World War I British army camp were uncovered in an archeological dig near Ramle, suggesting that the British soldiers loved their booze.

A bottle of Gordon's Dry Gin found a the site of the archeological dig near Ramle

Back to roots for the bar mitzvah boy: A memorable visit to Beit Hagdudim

The Jewish Battalions Museum in Avichail has meaningful memories.

THE SANCTUARY at Beth Hagdudim

Islamic State claims responsibility for Saudi Arabia attack

The attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah wounded several people commemorating World War I.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

‘1917’ a stark, breathtaking World War I film

Sam Mendes’s 1917 is nothing short of astonishing. Designed as two extraordinarily long, unbroken shots, the film is a stunning feat of cinematography.

1917’ a stark,  breathtaking  World War I film

Middle Israel: Lessons from a great war’s disastrous peace

A century since the Treaty of Versailles, Europe is steadily returning to the role of global powder keg.

THE SIGNING of the Versailles Treaty is portrayed – the ill spirits are back.

In the Middle East, WWI centenary is reminder of continuing conflict

Millions in Middle East suffered in WWI, but region largely shrugs off centenary. A look at what happened in 1918 and after.

King Faisal I of Iraq leads a delegation at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; on his right is Britain’s T. E. Lawrence