Their Great War

‘Iron Jaw’ Criqui

the French disfigured boxer Eugène Criqui

Eugène Criqui was born in Belleville, near Paris, on 15 August 1893. A rather frail looking boy, he started an...

by Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt, University of Exeter

Gaston de Leval

A Belgian lawyer with a mountain named after him

A mountain in Banff National Park, Alberta, CA, was named after Gaston de Leval. Who was he?

He was born in...

by Dr Christine Van Everbroeck, Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, Brussels

General Amos Alfred Fries

A Career Officer and a New Weapon of War

Amos A. Fries was born in Wisconsin in 1873, but spent his childhood on his parent’s farm in Missouri and...

by Dr Thomas Faith, U.S. Department of State - Office of the Historian

Midshipman ‘Kit’ Wykeham-Musgrave

Teenage British sailor sunk 3 times in 1 day in September 1914

‘Kit’ was born on 4th April 1899, the son of a ‘gent’. He joined the Royal Navy as an officer...

by Dr Laura Rowe, University of Exeter

Lieutenant Herrick Duggan, Royal Engineers

A Canadian in the British Expeditionary Force

Herrick Duggan was born in Montréal, Canada in 1891. A member of Canada’s social elite, Herrick received his initial education...

by Dr Nic Clarke, Canadian War Museum