Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. All are examples of the kind of work featured in Stand To!
The First Tanks at Elveden by David Fletcher
Tank No. 713, another male, built by the Oldbury Railway Wagon and Carriage Company seen here at Elveden …
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Lance Corporal William Cotter
The following account is based on Gerald Gliddon's account of Cotter's career published in 'VCs of the First World War: …
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The story of how 2nd Lieut. Edward Felix Baxter was awarded the VC
The short biography that follows is based on the account which appears in Gerald Gliddon's 'VCs of the First World War: …
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Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Carter DSO and Bar, MC and Bar
This article is the story of a man from a working class background who joined the British Army as a private soldier in 1…
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'The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme 1916' reflections by Rev. Dr Robert Beaken
‘A slightly amended version of this article first appeared in the Church Times'. I once met an old lady in a parish in …
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How a Stockton man won the VC
Ted Cooper writes how his granda won the VC. Edward Cooper was born in Stockton on the 4th May 1896. He left scho…
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An Irish Soldier in the British Army
Survivors of 47 Brigade going back to rest area after the Battle of Guillemont-Ginchy, September 1916. Image: clarelib…
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Romania
Romania By Harald Heppner and Rudolf Gräf World War I afforded the first opportunity for modern Romania to parti…
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Harold Mugford VC
Harold Mugford was born at 149 Keetons Road, Bermondsey, London on 31 August 1894, the second son of Richard John Sanfor…
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Henry May VC
Henry May VC was one of 5 servicemen to win a VC on the Western Front in October 1914 and will have a commemorative pavi…
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The most successful British Bomber Aircraft of The First World War
An introduction to British Aircraft of the First World War If one were asked to choose a paradigm to represent the effe…
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Charles Kuentz - Germany's last surviving veteran of the Great War
Ninety years after he was conscripted, Germany's only surviving veteran of the Great War talks to Tony Paterson in Alsac…
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