The Great war killed around 20 million people. The majority of these people were male soldiers between the ages of 18-50. On top of those deaths many soldiers were wounded and shipped to safer areas for recovery. They had come straight from the trenches in the worst possible conditions. Within the trenches rats had grown…
GAS ATTACKS AT YPRES “I have never been in a battle — and I have been in many — where the men were suffering in such numbers that their crying and groaning could be heard all over the battlefield.” Anonymous Soldier Canada’s first major battle in the war, near ancient city of Ypres in Belgium…
The Great War Comes to an End, 1918 Germany surrendered at 11 am on November 11th 1918. The country had run out of food, ammunition and public support for the war. The Kaiser, faced with revolution, abdicated and fled to Holland, which had been neutral during the Great War. With his departure, Germany became a…