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Carrie Humphries' grandson contacted the BBC to highlight her collection of postcards, external from the war on Flickr. He said: She married my grandfather just before he went to war. The album is of all the postcards he sent her whilst away. It also contains pictures of his regiment etc. He was an ordinary soldier from Sheffield who was in the Army Service Corps. I just think it's unusual to see an album of postcards from one soldier all the way from 1915 - 1919.

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President Francois Hollande awards the Legion of Honour, France's highest military recognition, to the mayor of Liege, Willy Demeyer, in recognition for the city's resistance to German forces at the start of the war.

Peter Scales emails: I recently discovered journals kept by my Great Aunt, Lillie Scales, recording life in London during the war. She covers a range of topics and events such as Zeppelin raids, rationing, housing Belgian refugees, recruitment, giving hospitality to ANZAC and other colonial troops when on leave and first hand accounts of their Front Line experiences. I have had them published, entitled A Home Front Diary 1914-1918.

Daragh Corcoran of BBC Radio Leeds sent this picture from Yorkshire, saying: "Quite a crowd attended the opening of a new bridge linking Shepley to the village war memorial."

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Louise Consterdine comments, external: My father-in-law, Charles George C, lied about his age and joined up at 16. Shot through the chest, permanently damaging his lungs. Never talked about it, even though he met my mother-in-law in the hospital where she was a trained nurse.

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Heads of state watch the flypast from the balcony of Liege's city hall.

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The world on the brink of war

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War horses

Hundreds of thousands of horses were called up in Europe alongside soldiers. They were essential for carrying ammunition and general supplies to the front line.

BBC World War One tweets: Folkestone was the first point of arrival for most of the 250,000 Belgian refugees who came to Britain in #WW1.

DC in Hants, UK, texts: War is not heroic. It is tragedy. It is failure. War should not be portrayed as noble or inspiring but as the horror it was and is. We must remember.

The events of World War One still influence people today. Historian James Barr, author of "A Line in the Sand", and Professor Michael Clarke, the director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), discussed the war's global impact on the BBC's World at One programme.

"It is important to remember this dramatic event that my grandparents lived through," said Elise, in Liege to watch the events. She told the Associated Press: "My father witnessed the Second World War, so I hope, I dream, for my five grandchildren that peace will be realised in the world one day, peace between all human beings in the world, and I hope that war will completely disappear. It is a huge dream but I want to believe in it all the same."

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Belgian Air Force planes fly over Liege, watched by French President Francois Hollande, Belgium's King Philippe and Queen Mathilde and thousands of local people.

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Belgian Refugees arrive in Britain

On the 20 August 1914, boatloads of Belgian refugees started to arrive in Folkestone, fleeing their country following the German invasion.

Over the course of World War One over 250,000 Belgian refugees came to Britain. Approximately 65,000 Belgian refugees stayed in Folkestone.

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A row has broken out in the UK over the messages written on wreaths presented by the three main party leaders. Prime Minister David Cameron hand-wrote a tribute for the ceremony at Glasgow's Cenotaph, which read: "Your most enduring legacy is our liberty. We must never forget." Mr Miliband's said: "From the Leader of the Opposition", while Mr Clegg's said: "From the Deputy Prime Minister", leading to accusations of insensitivity.

But a Labour spokesman said leader Mr Miliband "was not given the opportunity to write a personal message on the wreath, and was only handed it seconds before" it was laid. A Liberal Democrat spokesman said there had been only about "10 seconds" between the wreath being handed to Mr Clegg and it being laid.

Sgt Gavin Hall will play the Last Post to end the St Symphorien cemetery later on Monday. He told the BBC it was "quite a daunting prospect, but I've got to honour the servicemen who made the ultimate sacrifice".

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tweets:, external William and Kate have just arrived at St Symphorien for "very private" visit to see graves of Brit, Commonwealth and German soldiers #WW1

We now call it World War One, but is this an accurate description? The BBC News website looks at whether it really was the first global conflict.

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The world on the brink of war

"The development of the European crisis has created a panic among many thousands of holiday-makers on the Continent." The Birmingham Daily Post, 4 August 1914

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British holidaymakers stranded in Europe

On 3 August 1914, as war consumed Europe, 10,000 people arrived in London from all parts of the Continent.

The British Consul in Paris advised all British subjects to leave the country and return home as soon as possible.

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Standing out against the blue sky, Folkestone's newly unveiled memorial arch is the result of a campaign by the Step Short charity to mark the point of departure for WW1 troops. "Step short" was the order the marching troops were given as they went down the steep hill to the harbour and the front.

Lynn Forest-Hill emails: My father, Thomas (Tom) Edleston Pavitt, joined the Royal Navy as a boy sailor when he was 15. He served for a time at HMS Southampton, and survived the First and Second World Wars, and if war had not affected him so badly I might have known my dad better than I did.

He was at the Battle of Jutland and the experience haunted him for the rest of his life. Because he only briefly spoke to me of his time in the war, I don't even know which ship he served in during the battle, but my mother explained that he had been among those who had to sweep up the body parts of his dead shipmates... He himself only told me he was in Scapa Floe when Kitchener's ship was lost and when another ship was blown up by a U-boat that got through the submarine nets... So little is said about the sailors in World War 1, and the conditions under which they served... so I would like to place on record my own recognition of what the sailors, like my dad, in the dreadnoughts and cruisers and the frigates went through.