WWI Veteran Project

  • What started it

    What started it

    Franz Ferdinand is assassinated which is a key event that started the War
  • Beginning

    Beginning

    WWI begins
  • Battle of Tannenberg

    General Aleksandr Samsonov leads in East Prussia during the start of the war
  • Lusitania

    Lusitania

    More than 1,900 people aboard and more than 1,100 died
  • Germany

    Germany

    Germany were the first to use large amounts of gas in the war. ¨ The Air Threatens The Home¨
  • Joining

    Arthur James Thomas joins the Navy in 1917. There was no exact date but the year is certain
  • Bantry Bay

    Bantry Bay

    Arthur and a few more Navy men head out in Ireland
  • Dear Viola

    Dear Viola

    Thomas writes to Viola
  • Cantigny

    The first major American offensive which leads to larger attacks on Germany
  • Belleau Wood

    Belleau Wood

    US Marines attack Germany in a field
  • General Pershing

    300,000 Americans fall into line with German troops under Pershings instructions
  • Train

    Train

    Arthur Thomas sees train with other soldiers aboard
  • Armistice

    Armistice

    Signed to end fighting in the West
  • End of Service

    End of Service

    Arthur Thomas James ends being in the Navy