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Happy 157th QAMR!
Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles, the oldest regular force unit in the New Zealand Army, turned 157 this month. Formed 16 September 1864 as the Alexandra Troop of the Wanganui Cavalry Volunteers, the...
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Kulbir Thapa Magar, VC
A new memorial, dedicated to the first Gurkha to win the Victoria Cross, Kulbir Thapa Magar, has been unveiled in Princes Gardens, Aldershot. “The statue will serve as a lasting memorial as well as a...
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Von Der Tann’s Volcanic
So this just surfaced at an upcoming auction by Milestone. SERIAL NUMBER 1738. BARREL 6″. CALIBER .41. The Volcanic lever-action repeating pistol was made by Volcanic Arms in New Haven after the...
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The 10th Light Horse Rides Again
Irwin Barracks, Karrakatta, recently saw the return to the Australian Army, in regimental strength, of the venerable 10th Light Horse Regiment. With a lineage that hails back to the country’s colonial...
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Monclar’s Winchester
Raoul Charles Magrin-Vernerey was born in Budapest, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1892 to French parents. Accepted to Saint-Cyr, France’s West Point, in 1912, he was rushed to graduation in...
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at 100
On 11 November 1921, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery was installed as a solemn final resting place for one of America’s unidentified service members. The mortal remains...
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Santa Barbara pokes out
Passing through Mobile last week, I saw this big grey beast emerging. The future USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32), rolling out of her assembly bay. (Photo: Austal) The 16th Independence-class littoral...
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High Flyer
Original caption: “An alert Coast Guardsman leaps into action as he covers his patrol. On the anti-saboteur patrolmen of the Coast Guard also protect vital cargoes on the piers awaiting shipment to...
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Lost Battalion Actual
Other than Sgt. York, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Pershing himself, perhaps the best-known American Soldier of the Great War was a bookish lawyer from New York City, Charles Whittlesey. The bespectacled...
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107 Years Ago Today: Winchester Goes ‘Over There’
24 November 1914: the draft document between Winchester and the British government is knocked out for 200,000 “Cal. 303 Enfield rifles with sword bayonet and scabbard” at a cost of $32.50 each, FOB to...
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Philippines flexing over demands they unreef their ancient LST
We’ve talked in the past about the 2,000-tons of tetanus shots that is the mighty BRP Sierra Madre (L-57), formerly the ex-USS Harnett County LST-821, which has been grounded on Ayungin Shoal (Second...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021: The Great White Fleet’s Beautiful Accidental...
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021: Sir Walter
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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The ‘Christmas Truce’ at 107
Merry Christmas, gentlemen. Official caption: “British and German officers meeting in No-Man’s Land during the unofficial ‘Christmas truce,’ Dec. 25, 1914. British troops from the Northumberland...
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Vacancies Exist!
Just five months prior to the Great War: Recruiting poster for British Army shows four Army units, Hussars, Highlanders, Infantry, and the Army Service Corps. Of note, the Highlanders are carrying the...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021: Taking a Nap
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Hull Pals Toughing it Out
And you thought you were cold! 9 January 1918, “a soldier of the 12th Battalion [aka Hull Sportsmen, or 3rd Hull Pals], East Yorkshire Regiment, on sentry duty on the firestep of a snow-covered trench...
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100 Years Ago: Big Gun Pink Slips
The scene in the Naval Gun Shop, Washington, D.C. 10 February 1922. 16-inch guns under construction. “Shop is idle today, employees numbering 1,350 having been laid off yesterday.” (As a result of...
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Drapeau in Autochrome
Check out these beautiful images, captured by French photographer and Great War military officer Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud in 1917-18. They have not been colorized but were made with an early color...
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Farewell, Blood & Bones
Formed as part of the old Royal Flying Corps in February 1917, today’s No. 100 Squadron RAF has an impressive history that includes four battle honors for the Great War and was the last squadron to...
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