The mud of the Somme Valley was still on Ewart Tempest’s boots when he marched into Vignacourt, a French village some fifteen miles behind the British front line. It was April 5, 1916. Tempest, a fair ...
Private Somerville MacPherson enlisted in Vernon, B.C., and received a Military Medal for bravery. Corporal Frank Jancey, a ...
World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...
A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...
Known as the Great War before World War II, World War I still remains one of the biggest and deadliest conflicts in world history, and as a result, has inspired numerous stories in its wake, some of ...
OTTAWA — After more than 100 years, an American medical museum has returned the partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers from the First World War.