VPI in World War One

A project dedicated to exploring, remembering, & uncovering lives of @virginia_tech #WW1 veterans.

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

Learn about the many ways #WW1 transformed @virginia_tech by visiting @VPIWW1's new digital exhibit How WW1 Changed Us: Virginia Tech ➡️ https://t.co/pajtEIEkXw

@VT_LiberalArts @VT_History @VTSandsman @VTCorpsofCadets

[Daniel Newcomb @crossingdan]

Happy first day of the Fall 2022 semester Hokies!

📷 Friends Robert Moore and R. G. Fields exploring @virginia_tech's campus in Fall 1920.

#virginiatech #hokies #firstdayofschool #oldschoolcool

[Doug @colour_history]

Belgian refugees being taken to the rear in British Army Service Corps horse-drawn wagons in Sint-Janstraat, Rollegem-Kapelle, near Ledegem, 20 October 1918.
Rollegem-Kapelle was entered by the 9th (Scottish) Division on 14th October. © IWM Q 11392

[Daniel Newcomb @crossingdan]

This is Mon Spencer Owyang, a Chinese American doughboy who served in the US Army during the First World War. I purchased this photograph in March 2022 and was able to recently reunite this photograph with his family! (1/4)

[National WWI Museum @TheWWImuseum]

Soldiers operating machine guns had one of the lowest average life expectancies once behind their gun: 15 min
📷 #OTD July 26, 1918, unidentified American machine gunner w/ captured German MG08 Maxim water-cooled machine gun in a nest near Citadel Hill, Grandpre, Ardennes, France

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

WW1 in the Headlines:

Last week firefighters in Slovenia were prevented from penetrating into a wildfire due to the fire setting off unexploded ordinance from the First World War.
https://t.co/ESjesPs1Mt

[Doug @colour_history]

A sniper of the 6th Battalion, the York and Lancaster Regiment, 32nd Brigade comes out of his post in a front line trench at Cambrin, 6th February, 1918.
© IWM Q 8454

[Doug @colour_history]

10 July 1918.
Two men of the 7th Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery operate a Stokes mortar, established in a machine gun post on the new front line, just east of Villers-Bretonneux
left to right: 1916 Lance Corporal A J Ellis and 2700 Private Arthur Lawler.
IWM E(AUS)2677)

[Jeff Gusky @hiddenwwi]

In memory of Corporal Jack O’Brien, a soldier from New England’s Yankee Division. Ironically, his name is inscribed in the logo of the Chicago Cubs prevalent during 1918. He must have been
a Cubs fan.
#ww1 #blackandwhitephotography

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

Once America entered the war the US Committee on Public Information worked with songwriters and publishers to produce and promote propagandistic songs to encourage support of the war effort among the American population. (3/3)

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

In the 1910s much of the American population either didn't read or didn't read English. But, some could get their news from songs. Songwriters would read newspapers, and then compose songs within hours based on what they read that morning. (1/3)

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

By the afternoon their music would be for sale on the streets! By night musicians would be playing those songs in bars for the ready and willing ears of their listening public. (2/3)

[Virginia Tech Liberal Arts @VT_LiberalArts]

As @virginia_tech celebrates #VT150, students combined their disciplinary backgrounds to create innovative historical exhibits. 👏

Join @historylab_vt tomorrow (May 3) at 2 p.m. to check out the projects! ✔

More details.⬇️
https://t.co/WyRrcXQAOb

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

Learn about the many ways #WW1 transformed @virginia_tech by visiting @VPIWW1's new digital exhibit How WW1 Changed Us: Virginia Tech ➡️ https://t.co/pajtEIEkXw

@VT_LiberalArts @VT_History @VTSandsman @VTCorpsofCadets

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

@virginia_tech You can also visit our digital exhibit - How WW1 Changed Us: Virginia Tech - to learn about how #WorldWar1 played a role in women coming to @virginia_tech as students and instructors!

🔗https://t.co/b9UfBY3tF1

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

We shall hold the enemy towards nightfall
and they will move
mutely into the dark behind us,
only the creaking cart
disturbing their sorrowful serenity.

(3/3)

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

"The Refugees" by Sir Herbert Read, written in 1914 during his service with the Green Howards in France:

Figures with bowed heads
They travel along the road:
Old women, incredibly old
and a hand-cart of chattels.

They do not weep:
their eyes are too raw for tears.

(1/3)

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

Past them have hastened
processions of retreating gunteams
baggage-wagons and swift horsemen.
Now they struggle along
with the rearguard of a broken army.

(2/3)

[Virginia Tech @virginia_tech]

In solidarity with the people of Ukraine, Burruss Hall will be illuminated in blue and yellow until sunrise on March 4 💙💛

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

We'll be back to regular posting next week! Took a small hiatus after completing this major exhibit.

[VPI in World War One @VPIWW1]

Learn about the many ways #WW1 transformed @virginia_tech by visiting @VPIWW1's new digital exhibit How WW1 Changed Us: Virginia Tech ➡️ https://t.co/pajtEIEkXw

@VT_LiberalArts @VT_History @VTSandsman @VTCorpsofCadets