Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/22/coward-review-soldiers-find-escapism-and-romance-in-wartime-theatrical-troupe #Film #CannesFilmFestival #DramaFilms #WarFilms #FirstWorldWar #Belgium #RomanceFilms #LgbtqRights #Culture #Europe #Festivals #WorldNews

HMS St. Vincent at anchor, Scapa Flow, Scotland https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/british-battleship-hms-st-vincent/ #RoyalNavy #battleofjutland #battleship #firstworldwar #hmsstvincent #warship #worldwarone #maritimehistory #NavalHistory

University of Guelph's Project Reunion aims to connect students who died in WWI with families
A group of University of Guelph students are working on Project Reunion to honour 109 soldiers who fought and died in the First World War. The soldiers attended and graduated from the university at the turn of the early 20th century when it was known as the Ontario Agricultural...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/project-reunion-university-of-guelph-soldiers-students-9.7176015?cmp=rss

#VILenin's #AprilTheses were first heard in a speech on #ThisDayInHistory in 1917, a day after returning to Russia. In them, #Lenin rejected the #FirstWorldWar, the #ProvisionalGovernment, and a republic; and calls for the "abolition of the police, the army, and the bureaucracy".

Museu da Corte Internacional de #Justiça em #Haia (Países Baixos).

Cartas de um soldado francês (1914-1918)

#DireitoInternacional #InternationalLaw #UnitedNations #InternationalCourtOfJustice #FirstWorldWar #PremiereGuerreMondiale #TheHague #LaHaye #photography #museum #musee #museu #war #guerre #lettre #letters #correspondance #soldier #soldats #french #france

Toronto honours soldiers lost during Vimy Ridge Battle
The City of Toronto held a commemoration ceremony for the Battle of Vimy Ridge on Sunday at the Old City Hall Cenotaph. A group of people, including Mayor Olivia Chow, gathered to recognize the casualties of members of the Canadian Corps during the First World War. While it remains Canada’s most notable military victory, more than 3,500 Canadians lost their lives. Of those, 114 were from ...
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7161116?cmp=rss

WW I memorial rededicated at Winnipeg's Brookside Cemetery after relocation from Portage and Main
A prominent statue commemorating First World War veterans that stood at the intersection of Portage and Main in downtown Winnipeg for more than a century has found its new home at Brookside Cemetery in the northwest corner of the city.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/war-statue-relocated-brookside-mmf-9.7157992?cmp=rss

Painted Poppies and Poesy

Poppies, like many flowers and herbs, are beneficial to the world of medicine, but poppies appeal to me because they are survivors and symbolise life, hope, and flexibility. The immense devastation on the battlefields in the northern region of Belgium in the 1st World War left 55,500 British soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of German, French, and Belgian troops, unaccounted for - their remains still buried in the Fields of Flanders. I penned the poem 'Poppies Remember', which […]

https://carolinestreetblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/painted-poppies-and-poesy/