🇨🇦 🇬🇧 Private Harold Percival Rule
The Rule Brothers
SIX BROTHERS · ONE WAR · TWO NATIONS
Six brothers answered the call. From Canada and England they went to war — in the trenches, on horseback, in the veterinary lines, and among the pioneers. Not all came home.
HAROLD P.
Pioneers · CEF · 863021
REGINALD
Hampshire Regt · KIA Ypres
LESLIE
4th CMR · 3rd Div CEF
CECIL
19th Bn · 2nd Div CEF
MARTIN
Royal Vet Corps · British
JAMES
Disappeared after the war
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TRENCH — The Great War · Global Intelligence · 1914–1918
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THE GREAT WAR · GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE · 1914–1918
AUGUST 1914
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The Great War · 1914–1918
The first truly global conflict. Fought across 8 theaters on four continents — from the trenches of Flanders to the deserts of Palestine, from the mountains of Italy to the shores of Gallipoli. Thirty-two nations at war. Empires destroyed. The modern world forged in fire.
~20M
Total Dead
~21M
Total Wounded
1,568
Days of War
32
Nations Involved
Theaters of War
\u25CF Western Front — France & Belgium. 700km of trenches. The war's deadliest theater.
\u25CF Eastern Front — Russia vs. Germany & Austria-Hungary. Vast mobile warfare.
\u25CF Gallipoli — The Dardanelles campaign. ANZAC Day. Birth of modern Turkey.
\u25CF Italian Front — 12 battles on the Isonzo. Alps warfare. Caporetto.
\u25CF Middle East — Mesopotamia, Palestine, Arabia. Lawrence. Megiddo.
\u25CF Naval — Jutland, U-boats, Coronel, the Falklands. Command of the seas.
\u25CF Africa — Lettow-Vorbeck's legendary guerrilla campaign.
\u25CF Balkans — Serbia's heroic resistance. Salonika. Bulgaria.
\u{1F1E8}\u{1F1E6} Canada's Contribution
Canada committed over 620,000 soldiers — from a nation of fewer than 8 million. 66,000 gave their lives. The Canadian Corps became one of the most effective fighting formations on the Western Front, earning a reputation as elite shock troops at Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, Hill 70, and the Hundred Days Offensive.
The Human Cost
Germany — 2.0M dead · France — 1.4M dead · Britain & Empire — 0.9M dead
Austria-Hungary — 1.2M dead · Russia — 1.8M dead · Ottoman Empire — 0.8M dead
Italy — 0.7M dead · Romania — 0.3M dead · Serbia — 0.3M dead · USA — 0.1M dead
TRENCH v2.0\u03B1 — The Great War \u00B7 Global Intelligence
86 battles \u00B7 8 theaters \u00B7 52 monthly SITREPs \u00B7 13 Canadian actions
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Dedicated to Pte Harold Percival Rule, s/n 863021, CEF
\u{1F1E8}\u{1F1E6} Proudly Canadian
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