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!
Officers Pension Record Cards digitised and now available
Two more sets of Pension Record Cards ('PRCs') have been digitised and made available by the WFA's partner Ancestry. The…
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Further examples of unusual Pension Claims
As the various projects WFA members are working on move forward, it seems a good time to update members on just a couple…
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A Tour of Mesopotamian War Cemeteries in 2003
In the early summer of 2003, fortunately or not, I found myself and the Battalion I was commanding at the time, 7 Air As…
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Across from the Parade Ground Soldiers: assessing the French performance at the Somme…
The bulk of this article is a long explanation as to the finding of a brief answer: despite suffering slightly under one…
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The Stories That Men Tell
When I first started working on my photographic project Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace in 2005 I was given two pieces …
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The Somme Film - Some Notes Gun Fire
[This article first appeared in the Yorkshire Branch journal ‘Gun Fire’ Book 1 1985 pp9 - 15. The entire series of 59 …
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The Soldier who never was: An example of a Change of Name in the Late-Victorian Army
Every student who undertakes research into the personal histories of soldiers who served in the Victorian Army will have…
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The man with two aliases - the explanation
I read with great interest the recent 'Trench Lines', especially the articles on hard-to-decipher writing, and the man w…
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Blair Swannell - Lion at War
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several documentaries for the …
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Bernard Vann VC: Christian Soldier
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several documentaries for the …
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One of the ‘Forty Thieves’ Identified - Percy Fussell MM – Northampton Saints and the…
It’s a photograph we had seen before, without perhaps looking at it properly. An extraordinary image of hardened men, j…
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Olympian and Composer: Frederick Septimus Kelly
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several documentaries for the …
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