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As identified by Andrew Simpson in his PhD thesis,[1] there is remarkably little written about British Corps command in …

An ideal way to obtain an understanding of the First World War is through reading the memoirs of those who served in the…

Lord Kitchener's famous call for volunteers "Your Country Needs You" resulted in an overwhelming response with hundreds …

Cuinchy is a village astride the La Bassée Canal and is referred to by Robert Graves in his classic memoir Goodbye to Al…

By far the most famous ‘ace’ of the Great War was Manfred Albrecht von Richthofen, popularly known during the war in Ger…

The image of the headstone below - which is in Dover (St James's) Cemetery - is perhaps not terribly unusual. It names a…

Losses of life in the First World War are more often than not attributed to engagements in battle or enemy action of som…

The naval arms race between Britain and Germany had, in the early years of the 20th Century, been a major contribution t…

This article could almost be taken from a “Boys Own” story of Great War adventures. It features a daring raid by one of…

Colonel Hugh Maurice Wellesley Souter was born in India in 1872. Originally commissioned into the Manchester Regiment, h…

Britain's declaration of war on Turkey on 5 November 1914 created a threat to the vital artery of the British Empire – t…

As the ‘Camel’ pilot approached dark shape in the gloom of the late May evening, he recognised it as a Gotha bomber – on…