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!
German Memorials on the Western Front
One of the consequences of the German occupation of France during the First World War was that their occupation became f…
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The loss of HMT Dane
Like most youngsters growing up in the 60s and 70s The Great War was a long time ago, and although my Grandad, Fred Boot…
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Oddities in the Pension Records
Within the Pension Records that The Western Front Association have saved are hundreds of thousands of cards for pension …
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Stewart McVey: The soldier with TWO aliases
One of the many names listed on Le Touret Memorial to the Missing is that of Corporal Stewart McVey. Aged just 18 he was…
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Memories of Verdun by Francois Wikart
The following article is based on the recollections of General Caloni and recollections of the authors’ grandfather’s ex…
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John Shirley - the soldier with two commemorations
The 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles was a regular battalion, which for most of the war was part of the 8th Division. A…
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Talbot House opens ambitious new permanent exhibition
In 2004, Harry Patch, ‘the Last Fighting Tommy’, opened the fully restored Concert Hall of Talbot House. On the ground…
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Truth in the Telling by Alexander Falbo-Wild, Chairman East Coast USA Branch
[This article first appeared in the April 2020 edition of Bulletin, No. 116.] There is much to write about the fi…
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Crossing the Devastated Zone, 1917: Lessons and Consequences for the British Expediti…
The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, 14 March – 5 April, 1917, is something of a footnote in the study of Great…
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Private Memorials on the Western Front
In 1999, a member of The Western Front Association, Barrie Thorpe, who was the WFA's memorial's officer produced a book …
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Major Willie Redmond MP
William Hoey Kearney Redmond was born on 13 April 1861 to a Catholic father and a Protestant mother. After leaving schoo…
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Ernest Brooks and the photograph of The 'Forty Thieves'
With recent developments in technology, the colourisation of monochrome images from the Great War has come on in leaps a…
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