Video: '1914~1918. A BBC History of the Great War: 3. Total War' (June 15, 1918, at 17:06)
(Saturday, June 15, 1918; on the Italian Front during World War I) — Captain Edward Brittain, a British Army officer who was immortalized by his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth, was shot in the head and killed early this morning on the Asiago Plateau during a counter-attack against an Austrian offensive, part of the Second Battle of the Piave River at Piave, Italy. Continue reading Vera Brittain’s brother killed on Italian Front 100 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 15 1918)