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At the end of April 1915 the Sussex Express carried a cheering report from one of its former reporters, Private W G H…

Founded on the Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, 12, Downing…

Introduction There were two military meanings to the word 'Dud'. The first was the obvious well known one referring to …

When the First World War began in August 1914, none of the 48 autonomous states that then made up the United States of A…

The next major release of images of the Pension Record cards saved by the WFA has now been made available to WFA members…

In the BBC adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' ‘Birdsong' we have seen how the character Stephen Wraysford escaped in a some…

The 20th August 2013 was a hot day. Probably not as hot as the 20th July 1918. Despite these dates being separated by ne…

As Serjeant Leonard Maidment nervously waited in the pre-dawn gloom of the morning of 20 July 1918 preparing for his fir…

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which marked Russia’s withdrawal from the war, was signed on 3rd March 1918 by the new Russ…

During the early years of the war, March on the Western Front was a time of preparation for the spring offensives both s…

February’s Lewes casualties provide a glimpse of the contrasting life experiences and backgrounds of residents of differ…

By the end of autumn 1914 the German advance on Paris had been halted and both sides had dug in for the winter, creating…