World War One

A stack of gas canisters inflating a captive balloon on the Western front.
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German submarine UB 110 before she was scrapped on the dry docks, Wallsend, England.

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On the 19 July 1918, when attacking a convoy of merchant ships near Hartlepool, she herself was attacked by H.M. Motor-Launch No. 263 and suffered from depth charges. Coming to the surface she was rammed by H.M.S. Garry, a torpedo boat destroyer, and sunk.


In September same year she was salvaged. She was then berthed at Swan Hunter Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend, with an order to restore her as a fighting unit. The Armistice on Nov 1918 caused work on her to be stopped. Subsequently sold as scrap.
 
In a linotype machine and a printing press combined, war news printed right before your eyes is the latest method of displaying bulletins by big newspapers. The mechanical bulletin printing machines in the window of a Cincinnati newspaper.
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Switzerland mobilised its troops in August 1914 to protect its neutrality. During the WW1, soldiers kept guard at the country's borders. Troop numbers varied depending on the potential threats over the border. In August 1914, there were around 220,000 soldiers called up, but only 12,500 by the end of the war. Most men spent on average 500 days serving. The Swiss army didn't take part in any fighting, but approximately 3,000 men died because of accidents or illness, including 1,800 during the infamous Spanish flu epidemic in 1918.
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Artillery observation post near Basel
 
Then & now...
2nd Ave. from Madison St, Seattle, Washington: Celebrations on the street on the day of the Armistice, Nov. 11, 1918.
"...It was an ecstasy of joy, an orderly disorder, a spontaneous combustion of Seattle’s heart and soul. And there were, The Seattle Sunday Times noted, cars and trucks crowded with flag-waving pretty girls like we see here crossing Madison St. southbound on Second Avenue..."
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