John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, on May 9, 1800. His father, Owen Brown, was an early abolitionist who was accused in 1798 of forcibly freeing slaves. John Kipling (17 August 1897 – 27 September 1915) was the only son of the British author Rudyard Kipling. He was killed in September 1915 at the Battle of Loos. Eyewitness account of the fruitless attempt by the Allies to dislodge the Turks from the Gallipoli Peninsula. Letters from the Trenches. We are now 1. 50yd from Fritz and the moon is bright, so we bend and walk quietly onto the road running diagonally across the front into the Bosche line. There is a stream the far side of this - boards have been put across it at intervals but must have fallen in - about 2. We stop and listen - swish - and down we plop (for a flare lights everything up) it goes out with a hiss and over the board we trundle on hands and knees. Still. Apparently no one has seen so we proceed to crawl through a line of . E-13 SUBMARINE 1914-1915, wreck, wreck database. Born, Liverpool, 20th April 1884. Commanded E13 when it grounded off Saltholm Island, Denmark, due to a faulty.Now for 1. 00yd dead flat weed- land with here and there a shell hole or old webbing equipment lying in little heaps! This means a slow, slow crawl head down, propelling ourselves by toes and forearm, body and legs flat on the ground, like it snake. A working party of Huns are in their lair. We can just see dark shadows and hear the Sergeant, who is sitting down. We must wait a bit, the moon's getting low but it's too bright now 5 a. They will stop soon and if we go on we may meet a covering party lying low. A potent row of standards are the first with a nut at the top and strand upon strand of barbed wire. The nut holds the two iron pieces at the top and the ends are driven into the ground 3ft apart. Evidently this line is made behind the parapet and brought out, the legs of the standard falling together. All the joins where the strands cross are neatly done with a separate piece of plain wire. Out comes the wire cutter. I hold the strands to prevent them jumping apart when cut and Stafford cuts. Twenty- five strands are cut and the standard pulled out. Two or three tins are cut off as we go. It is getting light, a long streak has already appeared and so we just make a line of . I take the corkscrew and Stafford the iron double standard. My corkscrew keeps on catching and Stafford has to extract me twice from the wire, his standard is smooth and only 3ft so he travels lighter. He leads back down a bit of ditch. Suddenly a sentry fires 2 shots which spit on the ground a few yards in front. We lie absolutely flat, scarcely daring to breathe - has he seen? Then we go on with our trophies, the ditch gets a little deeper, giving cover! My heart is beating nineteen to the dozen - will it mean a machine gun, Stafford is gaining and leads by 1. He stops, thinking I have got it. By the mound - listen. The LP occupants have gone in. Soon we are behind the friendly parapet and it is day. JOHN REDMOND AND HOME RULE. Taken from A History of Ireland by Eleanor Hull. INTO the wild hurricane of passions which were let loose both in Ireland and in England. We are ourselves again, but there's a subtle cord between us, stronger than barbed wire, that will take a lot of cutting. Twenty to seven, 2 hrs 1. But shelling, no, that's death at its worst. And I can't go again, it's a vice. Immediately after I swear I'll never do it again, the next night I find myself aching after. WRECKSITE - E- 1. SUBMARINE 1. 91. 4- 1. E- 1. 3 HMS - British submarine aground and defenseless, inside Danish territorial waters, was this morning shelled and destroyed by German Torpedo Boat The people of Copenhagen woke up in the morning on August. An incident that cost the lives of 1. British submariners. The survivors of the crew were interned in Denmark, until the end of The Great War. During the night of August 1. British submarines E- 8 and E- 1. Sound, between Denmark and Sweden. The submarines were on passage to reinforce the British submarine forces already operating in the Baltic area. Danish and Swedish Naval vessels were patrolling the Sound, protecting the neutrality of these two countries during the Great War. In combination with heavy mining in the waters, this short passage could quickly turn into a night- mare. The British submarine E- 8, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Francis Goodhart succeeded the passage without being spotted. The CO had chosen a route close to the Danish coast, leading him to the west of the small Danish island, Saltholm. E- 1. 3, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Layton made a course close to the Swedish coast, leading the sub east of Saltholm. However, the E- 1. Apparently due to a compass failure, the E- 1. Saltholm. The grounding took place inside Danish territorial waters. At dawn the grounding was observed by a Danish naval vessel on patrol in the Sound. The nationality of the submarine was at this moment unclear to the Danes. The Danish guard ship, the old gun boat FALSTER, under the command of Commander N. Bay Schmith, was anchored just to the west off Saltholm. The Danish Navy Chief of Staff immediately issued instructions to the Danish ships, ordering: . No other means are allowed. If the submarine is English, you must forestall any attempt to seize or attack the submarine. First you should signal an official protest, and if no respect is shown to the protest, you are allowed to use all necessary means available. Kofoed- Hansen at 8 o'clock in the morning of August 1. Around 5 a. m. Thiele, was the first ship at the scene and could make a positive identification of the grounded submarine, as a British E- class submarine. Upon arrival, the Danish torpedo boat NARHVALEN immediately went along- side the grounded British submarine and informed E- 1. CO), Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Layton, that the E- 1. Danish neutrality and International rules, was required to depart from Danish territorial water within 2. Lt. Cdr. Layton requested that one of his officers should be transported to the Danish guard ship. This request was granted and would be carried out, as soon as more Danish ships had arrived at the scene. In view of these time deadlines, if the E- 1. Danish territorial waters within 2. E- 1. 3 and its crew would be interned. The German torpedo boats G- 1. Leutnant zur See, Graf von Montgelas, and G- 1. E- 1. 3 from the south. An attack on the British submarine E- 1. On the mast of the G- 1. Immediately upon coming within firing range, the G- 1. E- 1. 3. However, the torpedo missed its target and exploded upon striking the sea floor bottom close to the E- 1. The German torpedo boat immediately thereafter employed its deck gun against the defenseless British submarine. Within a short while the sub was was hit several times and fire broke out onboard. The electrical batteries on the sub had been hid and poisonous chlorine gas was spreading inside the sub. After a short time, the sub's CO, Lt. Cdr. Geoffrey Layton, ordered his crew to abandon the burning submarine - There was nothing else they could do in the situation. The attack on the E- 1. The wreckage of the E- 1. Danes, and brought to the Naval Dock Yard in Copenhagen. After the end of the Great War the wreckage was sold for scrap to a Danish firm.
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