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 Loss of HM Yacht Iolaire
Hogmanay 1918….and many families in the Western Isles awaited with great anticipation the imminent return of husbands, f…
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A Christmas party – then tragedy
The band of the Royal Marines played….a film show ran…….and then tragedy…..as a series of explosions ripped through HMS …
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How to research Canadian Soldiers from the First World War
We are sometimes asked about how to undertake research for servicemen who were killed in the Great War. Whilst there are…
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The first Phosgene attack on British troops
The first use of phosgene gas against British troops by the German army took place on 19 December 1915. The gas attack t…
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A sobering aspect of the Christmas Truce
Many of the accounts of the Christmas ‘Truce’ in 1914 focus on the exchange of gifts and the supposed playing of footbal…
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The Raid on Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool
Much has been written about the German naval raid on the East Coast on 16 December 1914. A lot of this has concentrated …
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From schoolboy to battalion commander: Cecil Crichton-Browne
Captain (Acting Major) Cecil Harold Crichton-Browne was aged just 22 when he died on 13 December 1918. At the outbreak o…
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The King Crater incident and the courts martial
All three sectors held by 35th Division were attacked simultaneously by German raiders at 2.30 a.m. on 26 November. The …
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Each One a Pocket Hercules: The Bantam Experiment and the case of the 35th Division
Each One a Pocket Hercules1: The Bantam Experiment and the case of the 35th Division Few episodes in the massive expans…
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The Men in felt hats
In March 1910, two years after the formation of the Territorial Force (TF), R.B.Haldane, the Secretary of State for War,…
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The Indian Cavalry at Cambrai
Cavalry in the First World War was rarely used, at least in its traditional mounted role. A famous exception to this is …
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The Abandoned St Quentin Memorial to the Missing
In 1926, the French government raised serious concern at the number of free-standing memorials being proposed by the Imp…
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