On this day in history, the first American troops landed in France to join the Allies' fight in World War I. Their arrival brought renewed hope to Allied forces, weary from years of war. Under General John J. Pershing, the American Expeditionary Forces would soon grow into millions. But that first arrival–on the docks of Saint-Nazaire–signaled something greater: America was committed. On July 4th, U.S. troops marched through Paris as a symbol of the United States' entry into the war. And at Lafa

🌺 “Loved in Life, Honoured in Death” — The Story of Lance Corporal Robert Biggins, DCM 🌺 Robert Biggins was born in 1888 in Knowsley, Lancashire — raised in a working-class world of docks, labour, hard hands and long days. As a young man he worked for the Ellerman Hall Line before finding steadier employment as a dock clerk at Birkenhead Docks. He lived the same life as thousands of working men of his time — ordinary, humble, hardworking. At eighteen, he enlisted into the Sherwood Foresters. A