Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some are were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you would like to contribute an article please get in touch.
The Quest for Grandad’s photo: Pte James Cooper, 1st. Bn. Essex Regiment
'The grassy slopes that crown the cliffs are carpeted with flowers. The azure sky is cloudless and …
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Pantomime at Sea: Q-ships in WW1
The use of deception in warfare at sea was not new to the First World War – as an example, in 1681, …
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U-36 and the Prince Charles
SM U-36 was a type U 31 submarine, commissioned on 14 November 1914 under the command of Kapitanleut…
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Was Lord Kitchener Gay?
Ever since the publication of the biography entitled ‘Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist’ by Phil…
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The Air Raid on Chatham Drill Hall 3 September 1917
On 3 September 1917, the Chatham Drill Hall, then a glass roofed building, was being used as a tempo…
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The Restoration of a ‘Lost’ War Memorial – Woodborough Road Baptist Church,…
The Woodborough Road Baptist church in Nottingham was an imposing late Victorian building, designed …
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Balloonatics during the First World War 1914-1918
There are many groups of combatants who could claim to be the ‘unsung’ heroes of the First World War…
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Running the Rufiji Gauntlet: The destruction of SMS Königsberg
Early on the morning of 6 July 1915 two warships slipped away from Tirene Bay on Mafia Island, and s…
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'Gilbert the Filbert' during the Great War RIP 20 August 1916
Captain Basil Hallam Radford, No 1 Army Kite Ballon Section, Royal Flying Corps was born on 3 April …
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'Roasting a sausage': Balloons, their crews, and those who shot them down
Although observation balloons had been used as early as 1794 the static nature of the conflict in th…
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Great War Crested China militaria of the Great War
Webinars which have been produced by The Western Front Association and watched live or via the Faceb…
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A Liverpool Lad at Ypres Pte Joseph Gough KIA 31 July 1917
“The Valley of the Shadow, 31 July 1917. Down in the valley the Steenbeek flows, A brook you may cr…
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