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A member Mentioned in Dispatches for service during World War 1 wears a bronze oak leaf on the ribbon. Only one emblem is worn no matter how many times a member may have been 'mentioned'.
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Military aviation was still in its infancy when the First World War began, only 11 years after the Wright brothers' flight. Its role was expected to be limited to reconnaissance activities in support of ground forces and the number of operational aircraft available to the air forces of the major powers was small. During the initial war of movement on the Western Front, they quickly demonstrated their value in providing ground forces with regular information about enemy troop dispositions. As trench warfare developed towards the end of 1914, the cavalry was unable to carry out its traditional reconnaissance role and aircraft provided the only reliable source of information about the enemy's activities.
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The French firm of Nieuport built some of the best-looking and most effective fighting planes of World War One - the types 11, 17 and 28 gaining particular fame. Nieuports were ... among the most numerous aircraft of the War, being operated particularly by the French, British, Belgian, Russian, Italian and American forces.
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The story goes that members of a Royal Air Force squadron got together for a group photograph during World War 1. The picture on the left is a small section of this large photo. When the photo was looked at closely, the face of a man was seen to peek over the shoulder of one of the men in the top row. This mechanic had been killed by a propellor two days before (that had to suck...). Film glitch, light spot, trick of the lens? Damn good one.
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This informative site profiles the suffragettes and free thinkers whose actions helped redefine the role of women during the First World War. There are biographies of the era’s female writers and details of those women's organisations active in combat and on the home front.
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As the last veterans disappear, so, too, the last eyewitnesses of the First World War seem forever lost. Yet one witness remains behind, and its account is amazing. It's a silent yet telling witness. The battlefield landscape: the last witness to a mad war.
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