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title: "Top facts you didn't know about the first world war"  
description: "From the very first army tanks to Walt Disney's participation in the war, Marcia Williams, author of Archie's War, looks at some exciting facts about WW1"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-11  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1290/top-facts-you-didn-t-know-about-the-first-world-war  
category: "history"  
tags: ["World war", "WW1", "first world war", "history"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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

![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/126eb4c8-9eb7-4633-84b8-4985d2a82f95.jpeg) ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/9518843d-9418-4f47-94cc-d4e13cc98c39.jpeg) Tanks were developed by the British during the first world war ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/75267f95-cbc7-4216-8cf4-9b4a5599f2a4.jpeg) Before the war most women stayed at home or worked in domestic service ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/171b22da-2111-4f32-83c5-9e14c51b33b6.jpeg) When the war started, British soldiers went into battle with just a cloth cap for protection ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/cf44fca0-295e-4a90-b52f-7721428e6a52.jpeg) Many people suffered facial injuries during the first world war ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/01107f19-b436-4345-b5df-fce7b7a0f348.jpeg) The first ever motorized ambulances were used during the first world war ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/d01c4d67-d2dc-4d27-8b5e-76837092d947.jpeg) 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 ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/029412e8-de03-4510-bbc2-17b206260385.jpeg) Approximately 16,000 British conscientious objectors refused to fight during the war ![Top facts you didn t know about the first world war](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/3a4aff32-577c-4ff0-b43d-1df5229bbf9b/images/aaeec3d4-ae4d-49b8-978e-937ac5c9d4db.jpeg) 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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