Gardner was keen to do more towards the war effort and in 1916 once again returned to Britain.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

He supported Britain in the First World War, despite his many criticisms of British policy, and opposed, in 1916, moves for an early peace.

The Ottomans officially renounced sovereignty over Qatar in 1913, and in 1916 the new ruler, Jassim bin Mohammed's son, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, signed a treaty with Britain bringing the peninsula into the trucial system.

By 1916, volunteering falling off, the government imposed conscription in Britain ( but not in Ireland ) to keep up the strength of the Army.

The Asquith government proved ineffective but when David Lloyd George replaced him in December 1916 Britain gained a powerful and successful wartime leader.

At the outbreak of war, Powell immediately returned to Britain, but not before buying a Russian dictionary, since he thought " Russia would hold the key to our survival and victory, as it had in 1812 and 1916 ".

By 1916 the lack of co-ordination of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Navy's Royal Naval Air Service had led to serious problems, not only in the procurement of aircraft engines, but also in the air defence of Great Britain.

He was a strong supporter of Australia's participation in World War I, and after a visit to Britain in 1916 he became convinced that conscription was necessary if Australia was to sustain its contribution to the war effort.

The legend that Jesus himself visited Britain is referred to in " And did those feet in ancient time ", by William Blake in 1804, and in the hymn " Jerusalem ", with music written by C. Hubert H. Parry in 1916.

* 1907-09, Nassau class battleship Westfalen, participated 1916 Battle of Jütland ( in German: Skagerrakschlacht ), after war 1920 delivered to Great Britain, 1924 scrapped

This situation was maintained by the subsequent establishment of the State Management Scheme in 1916 which nationalised breweries and pubs in certain areas of Britain where armaments manufacture was taking place.

The Ellice Islands were administered by Britain as part of a protectorate from 1892 to 1916 and as part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony from 1916 to 1974.

" Political Change in Britain, August 1914 to December 1916: Lloyd George Replaces Asquith: The Issues Underlying the Drama ," The Historical Journal Vol.

The camp was founded in 1916 as Camp Keemosabee by the New Britain Area Council.

New Britain Council # 073, headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut, was founded in 1916 and changed its name to Keemosahbee Council in 1953.

By December 1916 there were 183 AA Sections defending Britain ( most with the 3-inch ), 74 with the BEF in France and 10 in the Middle East.

To add to that, while it is true that the Lloyd George Government of Britain did favour Hughes, they only came into power in 1916, several months after the first referendum.

In 1916 Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe claimed that the Germans could achieve victory in the Atlantic and force Britain to terms.

After over a year of night Zeppelin raids, on the night of 2 – 3 September 1916, a B. E. 2c flown by Captain William Leefe Robinson downed the SL 11, the first German airship to be shot down over Britain.

In 1916, thinking they were merely posturing and unwilling to take decisive action against Britain, he attempted to goad them into action by threatening to send the ICA against the British Empire alone, if necessary.

Upon his father's death in 1916, he also became 5th Baron Scarsdale, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997 ) was a German-British psychologist who spent most of his career in Britain, best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas.

The Pals ' first day of action, Saturday 1 July 1916, took place in Serre in the north of France.

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

In May 1916 the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Russia agreed the Sykes – Picot Agreement, which defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

* 1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.

Famous battles in France include Battle of Verdun ( spanning 10 months from 21 February to 18 December 1916 ), Battle of the Somme ( 1 July to 18 November 1916 ), and five separate conflicts called the Battle of Ypres

* 1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

* 1916 – François Mitterrand, President of France ( d. 1996 )

In 1916, however, the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France determined that parts of the Mashreq would be divided between those powers rather than forming part of an independent Arab state.

New Cameroon returned to France in 1916, after the fall of German forces in Africa.

Two years later, under the pressure of Allies ( especially France desperate to open a new front ), on August 14 / 27 1916 it joined the Allies, for which they were promised support for the accomplishment of national unity, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.

* 1916 – World War I: Manfred von Richthofen (" The Red Baron "), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

* January 8 – François Mitterrand, President of France ( b. 1916 )

Concomitantly, the resulting trade in munitions with England and France carried the United States from a depression in 1914 to boom years in 1915 and 1916.

It was fought between the German and French armies, from 21 February to 18 December 1916, on hilly terrain north of the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France.

Several battalions of the regiment saw notable service in France and Belgium during the First World War, in particular the 1st, which became forever associated with the terribly destructive action at Mametz Wood in 1916, and the 2nd, which endured the horrors of the massacre in the mud of Passchendaele ( Third Ypres ) in 1917.

During World War I, he was a staff officer with the Home Forces and with 7 Corps in France, and from 1916 in the Headquarters of the Machine-Gun Corps ' Heavy Branch which was later to become the Tank Corps.

The Battle of the Somme (, ), also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France.

Early in 1916 Kitchener visited Douglas Haig, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the BEF in France.

General Haig, recently appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France, attended a Cabinet meeting in London ( 15 April 1916 ) to discuss the upcoming Somme offensive.

Red Cross, Iron Cross was published anonymously, credited as " by a doctor in France ", in London in 1916 with all proceeds going to the French Red Cross, and details some of his experiences during the First World War.

In 1916, Masaryk went to France to convince the French government of the necessity of disintegrating Austria-Hungary.