A section of a popular park in Grangemouth is to be redesignated to become Falkirk’s official World War One Centenary Field. Zetland Park, which already has an impressive war memorial, has been chosen as part of a national-wide initiative to have at least one green space in every UK local authority to commemorate the Great …
Leopold Münster Leopold Münster was born on 13th December 1920 as son of Leopold Münster in Pohorsch near Odrau, Orbital Neutitschein/ Sudetenland. At the age of 5 he already was a young athlete of the Turnerjugend of the Sudetendeutschen Turnenverband. He visited the Volksschule in Pohorsch and afterwards the Bürgerschule in Odrau. Later on he became Gebietsführer in the Sudetendeutsche Turnerjugend in Kuhländchen. Short after the annexation of …
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Watch stunning color footage of Berlin just two months after the war, First Motion Picture Unit—the U.S. Army’s film production unit—traveled around Europe to record the damage done by the war. Dubbed “Special Film Project 186,” it was the last project of Owen Crump, a screenwriter experienced in propaganda and war movies. Thanks to Kodachrome …
HMS Urge, an U-class submarine funded by the people of Bridgend during World War Two has finally been found 73 years after it sank for the final time. Fate of HMS Urge On 27 April 1942, HMS Urge left Malta for Alexandria on the north coast of Egypt, and was never seen again. No definite explanation …
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The US military plans to exhume the remains of 388 Americans killed in the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in an unprecedented attempt to identify troops using DNA testing. The effort will focus on sailors and marines from the USS Oklahoma who could never be identified, more than seven decades since the surprise attack …
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They were the Falkirk district soldiers killed before they had the chance to serve their country on the battlefield during World War One. Three local men were among the estimated 226 victims of the Quintinshill rail disaster on May 22, 1915, when a troop train that had departed from Larbert station crashed into a local …
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A terrible fate awaited the many brave soldiers who fought in World War One – one of the most sinister from the effects of poison gas. While machine gun fire killed more men during the 1914-18 conflict, poison gas was undoubtedly the most feared. Death from a gun was usually an instant destiny, but dying after …
Experience a flight in a classic Second World War fighter, in formation with other historic combat aircraft, including the Avro Lancaster or simply said fly amongst the legends. Warbirds fans will have the time of their life thanks to the opportunities of Vintage Wings of Canada and Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Ever wanted to be …
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Towards the end of last year The Falkirk Herald included a number of articles about the outbreak of the Great War – some were harrowing stories about local men who lost their lives as well as of the survivors who returned to their families so damaged mentally and physically that their lives were never the …
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100 years after they were killed in action in October 1914 during World War One, six British soldiers will be re-interred in the Prowse Point Military Cemetery near Ieper in Belgium. Sadly, It has not been possible to identify any of those being re-interred, although two served with The King’s Own Lancaster Regiment and two …
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