Top facts you didn't know about the first world war

By MindStick

Tanks were developed by the British during the first world war

Before the war most women stayed at home or worked in domestic service

When the war started, British soldiers went into battle with just a cloth cap for protection

Many people suffered facial injuries during the first world war

The first ever motorized ambulances were used during the first world war

Aircraft were still very new in 1914, so when the Germans launched bombing raids on London, they were carried out from airships, known as zeppelins

Approximately 16,000 British conscientious objectors refused to fight during the war

In 1918 a pigeon, Cher Ami, one of about 100,000 homing pigeons used during the war, managed to save 500 US soldiers

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