Besides three children, Shemin left behind numerous supporters who kept up the appeal for an upgrade. On June 2, 2015, his ...

These trenches on Salisbury Plain were used ... known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine-gun save ...

A British artillery field gun from World War One. British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the ...

A hero soldier ... gun positions, and just mowed them down. ‘They kept on being sent out. It was a classic scenario in the First World War, where these guys were literally sent over the trenches ...

These trenches in Buckinghamshire were used to teach soldiers how to survive on the ... Nicholas Prosper is seen buying a gun, mimicking a shooting and refusing to answer police questions.

Photographed in 1917, an endless line of Russian soldiers sit patiently in a trench as they anticipate ... the fury of exploding shells and machine-gun fire in the front lines above.