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Lost Opportunity – 22 August 1914

How the Battle of the Ardennes on 22 August 1914 had consequences for the whole war 

The Indian Corps on the Western Front

In 1914, Indian troops provided much-needed reinforcements to a beleaguered B.E.F. 

1915 – Lessons Learned but not Learned

The battles of 1915, most of them forgotten actions, what lessons were learned from these battles? 

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's (CWGC) Enquiries Files.

I'm out! Escape from German POW Camps 1914 - 18

Mountain Warfare in the Great War

Playing the Great Classical Game: Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Imperial War Graves Commission

Special Railway Loads in WW1

'The Changing Face of Army Chaplaincy During the Great War'

'Halt! Who goes there?' 'Army Chaplain.' 'Pass Charlie Chaplin, all’s well!' 

An introduction to the R. E. Tunnelling Companies 1915 – 1918

Tunnelling companies were crucial in WWI trench warfare. From 1915 - 1919 they developed British underground tactics using offensive/defensive mining techniques that culminated in the successful Messines attack 

David Lloyd George, The Man Who Won The War?

Lloyd George has been described as a "war dynamo," transforming Britain's industrial, military, and economic efforts.  

Aviation in the Dardanelles and Gallipoli Campaigns

ONLINE: From the Suvla Plain to Victory: The Life of William Ralph Peel

Honour & Tradition

The Road to Sarajevo: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the Balkan Origins of the First World War