100 years ago today, on July 28,1914, the Austro-Hungarian empire declared war on Serbia.
This war would go on to develop into the First World War, four years of which inflicted a senseless 37 million casualties, murdering and mutilating the flower of European manhood and resulted in the destruction of three great empires.
This European civil-war, and the conflicts it would spawn, marked the beginning of the end for old Europa and her venerable cultures.
In memoriam, we today but walk amongst her ruins…
British soldiers of a Highland regiment killed and later stripped of their socks and boots on the Western Front, c. 1916
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