World War I

Debate over what the true cause of World War one still rages on today. The question of the building tensions in Europe and Britain. The arms race and the web of alliances all played a key role in the buildup. …

Louis Frederick (Freddy) J. Wijeratne Obeyesekere was born in the early 1890s. He was the forth and youngest child of Mudaliyar Henry Ferdinandus Wijeratne Obeyesekere and Henrietta Isabel (Ellen) Perera Wijesinha Goonetillaka¹ who had married in 1881 at All Saints Church, Galle. Freddy schooled at St Thomas’ College and took…

World War I (WWI) began on June 28, 1914, when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo. This event prompted Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia, and the conflict quickly spread across Europe and beyond.

Weapons of this calibre were never seen before on a battlefield. War was changing, the cavallery was now almost useless and no armed conflict was the same after the developement of this weapons. For sure, as we seen in part one, every country made an extensive use of these new weapons. And talkin about our focus, of Machine Guns too. In…

The first world war one changed the entire world after it’s end. It is A tragedy that changed deeply all the 20th century, and the times after. The numbers of death were high like never before in history. It is estimated that military deaths were around 8 to 9 Milions. Civilians deaths between 6 to 13 Milions. There are different factors to…