Information Graphics ww1

“How Did WW1 Change the Way We Treat War Injuries Today?” BBC Guides. Accessed January 16, 2018. http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zs3wpv4 . World War I  ( West Indies Regiment) On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the 1st Battalion of the WIR was stationed in  Freetown  where it had been based for two and a half years. A detachment of the Regiment's signalers saw service in the  German Cameroons , where Private L. Jordon earned a DCM and several other men were mentioned in despatches. The 1st Battalion returned to the West Indies in 1916. The 2nd Battalion was sent from Kingston to West Africa in the second half of 1915. They took part in the capture of  Yaoundé  in January 1916. The Regiment was subsequently awarded the battle honour "Cameroons 1914-16". The 2nd Battalion, which had been divided into detachments, was brought together in Freetown in April 1916 and sent to  Mombassa  in Kenya, to take part ...

The moodboard of the 8 fact out of 17 that will make up my one minute infographic about world war one but this moodboard is about how i can brake down the fact in to one minute place. this moodboard is my style for the one minute place infographic.

Facts 9 million soldiers and 7 million citizens died as a result of WW1. Chemical weapons were first used in WW1. Using poison gas was considered a war crime, but tear gas wasn’t considered to be a conflict by the troops. The Germans were the first to use lethal gases when they used a chlorine gas attack. Later they also developed and used the most effective gas of the First World War — mustard gas. The British were shocked at the German use of poison gas, but developed their own gas warfare to retaliate. The Pool of Peace is a 40-ft (12-m) deep lake near Messines, Belgium. It fills a crater made in 1917 when the British detonated a mine containing 4 5 tons of explosives. During WWI, dogs were used as messengers and carried orders to t he front lines in capsules attached to their bodies. Dogs were also used to lay down telegraph wires Spanish flu caused a third of the military deaths in WW1 ...