The Mystery of the Green Ribbon Armenian Refugees Flood Mediterranean Ports, Fight Bravely. A Bomb in San Francisco Special to The Great War Project. (21-26 July) Since the first days of the war in August 1914, Germany has occupied most of Belgium Fighting, though, is not underway in Belgium. The Western Front is fought mostly…
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GERMANS EXECUTE BELGIAN WOMAN FOR ESPIONAGE
by Mike Shuster
Gabrielle Petit is 23; Worked with British Intelligence Now Remembered as a National Hero Special to The Great War Project (1 April) At dawn on this day a century ago, the German occupation forces in Belgium execute Gabrielle Petit. Petit is a Belgian woman working for the British Secret Service in Brussels and other parts…
GERMANS EXECUTE BRITISH NURSE
by Mike Shuster
Edith Cavell Faces Firing Squad; Captors Ignore Pleas for Mercy Special to The Great War Project (10-12 October) Edith Cavell is dead. The British nurse is executed by a German firing squad this morning October 12th exactly one hundred years ago. Cavell, a British nurse working to save lives in German-occupied Belgium, is tried and…