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- Musketier Oskar Niemeyer (n.d. – 23 August 1914) was a German soldier. He is recognized as the first recipient (posthumous) of the Iron Cross during the First World War.
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Musketier Oskar Niemeyer (n.d. – 23 August 1914) was a German soldier. He is recognized as the first recipient (posthumous) of the Iron Cross during the First World War. [1]
Mar 17, 2023 · The tourist office of Mons in Belgium still claims that the first man of the German Army to win an Iron Cross (Second Class) in the First World War was Musketier Oskar Niemeyer, who today is buried on the St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, a CWGC burial ground in Saint-Symphorien in Belgium (originally a German cemetery, Ehrenfriedhof 191 ...
Sep 6, 2014 · During a recent visit to Mons to remember the 'Old Contemptibles' i was captivated by the story of this young German soldier who swam the Conde canal in order to operate the mechanism of a swing bridge. He was killed in action on the same day and we found his grave at St Symphoriens.
- It Was Britain’s First Battle in Western Europe For 100 Years
- The Battle of Mons Was Part of The ‘Battle of The Frontiers’
- The British Army Was Outnumbered Three to One
- The British and French Were Defending A Canal
- British Troops Were Uniquely Skilful
- The Germans Attacked in Parade-Ground Formation
- The British Retreated After 48 Hours
- The British Saw It as A Victory
- The First Victoria Cross and Iron Cross of World War One Were Awarded
- The Battle Gave Rise to Several Myths
The last time the British had fought in western Europe was at the famous Battle of Waterlooon 18 June 1815. Although the French army had been fighting the Germans at Lorraine, Ardennes and Charleroi, it was in Mons that the first shots were fired by the British. Mons was also where the first British soldier to be killed in the war, Private John Par...
The Battle of the Frontiers is the collective name for the first series of engagements between Allied and German forces on the Western Front in the opening month of the First World War. It was fought along the eastern borders of France and in southern Belgium. During the Battle of the Frontiers, British and French troops attempted to stop the Germa...
In August 1914, the British Army was pitifully small. Two-thirds of it, merely 80,000 men, had crossed the channel as the British Expeditionary Force. It was made up of professional soldiers who were well-trained and disciplined. In contrast, the Germans and the French fielded armies of conscriptswhich were each over 1,000,000 strong. As a result, ...
The British and the French had approached the town of Mons (which had mostly been abandoned by the locals) with little of idea of the numbers or location of the German Army. The British took up position along the Mons-Condé Canal to the north of the town. It was agreed that the BEF would hold the canal for 24 hours and dig trenches on the south sid...
Unlike the conscripts of the European armies, the men of the BEF were skilful and well-practiced marksmen. Armed with his Lee-Enfield rifle, a British soldier could hit a man-sized target 15 times per minute, at a range of 300 yards. This would be extremely useful when the Germans began their attack.
When the German attack began in the early hours of 23 August, the Germans advanced as if across a parade-ground. They marched towards the British in formations 15 ranks deep. One British infantryman said that any bullet which they fired would find its target. The British were able to fire so quickly against these huge German formations that the Ger...
The Germans made several more attacks in looser formations. These were more successful, so the Germans pressed on the weakest parts of the British lines, even swimming across the canal to try gain a foothold. Despite the valiant efforts of the BEF, the British were increasingly becoming surrounded, facing total annihilation, and were eventually for...
Government censorship prevented the defeat being reported immediately, and it took until 30 August for the news to emerge. The Times newspaper wrote a frank account of the battle, with the reporter stating how many, many, more men were needed by the army. However, to this day, the British view the Battle of Mons as a victory. The BEF had been outnu...
The Victoria Cross and the Iron Cross were the highest awards for braverywhich could be awarded to British and German forces. The first Victoria Cross of World War One was awarded to Lieutenant Maurice Dease, who took control of a machine-gun station by the Nimy Bridge despite being shot several times, fighting up until the last moment to allow his...
The Battle of Mons came to be seen as a British victory against insurmountable odds, like the Battle of Agincourt. The battle produced several myths about how the troops fought so well. One legend was that the British had been protected by angels – blocking the Germans’ path and guiding the British to safety. This myth of the Angel of Mons is attri...
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- Mary “Molly” O’Connell-Bianconi. At the time of the First World War, not many people would have regarded Mary O’Connell-Bianconi (or “Molly”, as she was known) as the likeliest of war heroes.
- Frank Luke. Frank Luke Jr was one of thousands of men who answered the call to fight the enemy in the skies in the service of the United States Air Force during the First World War.
- John ‘Jack’ Travers Cornwell. When we think of acts of courage in war, we often imagine grown men standing strong against bullets and bombs. But in the First World War, many much younger people exhibited incredible bravery far beyond that expected for people of their years.
- Albert Jacka. During the First World War, people from all over the world did things which required immense amounts of courage. Albert Jacka was an Australian who history records as one of the bravest warriors of the war.
Hermann Niemeyer Fernández (26 October 1918 – 7 June 1991) was a well-known Chilean scientist who did much to establish biochemistry as a research discipline in Chile. In 1983 he received the National Science Prize [ 1 ] for his major advances in biochemistry in the fields of bioenergetics, metabolic regulation of enzymes, and studies of metabolism in liver cells.
Nov 23, 2022 · The man behind this building is the famous Brazilian architect Oskar Niemeyer, who created the entire Brasilia, Brazil’s modernist capital, from scratch and worked with Le Corbusier, internationally influential Swiss architect and city planner, on the United Nations headquarters in New York.
