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Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some 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.

Battlefield Clearance and a Chinese revolt

“Private Smith, one of the ordnance men in our team, was killed tampering with a 106 fuse. Chines...

The First Canadian Nurses killed by Enemy Action during the First World War

A number of Canadian nurses died on active service, largely as a result of disease. The first Can...

An Original First World War RAF Hangar and the story of 'RFC Bramham Moor'

Anyone driving along the A64 dual carriageway between York and Leeds may have noticed at a signif...

The Great War Memorials to the Bowlby Brothers

Captain Geoffrey Bowlby of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) was killed leading his squadron in...

Captain Thorold A. Stewart-Jones at Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915

Son of Edward and Emily Pauline Stewart-Jones. (Born 10 July 1873 in Liverpool) A barrister of...

The Grimson family and the First World War

As with many spheres of life, the arts suffered many losses as a result of the First World War as...

Tragedy and Heroism in the Davidson Family in March 1916

On 28 March 1916, a pharmacist in Montrose, Scotland, dropped dead. The man’s wife duly wrote to...

Sir John Edward Fowler – the Last Repatriation from The Western Front in...

By April 1915 the exhumation of bodies from the Western Front and their repatriation was banned....

Different Truths from the Same Battle

As dawn broke on the morning of 6 May 1915, the men of the 1/6th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusi...

The US 2nd Division at Blanc Mont Ridge by Major General by David T Zabecki

[This article first appeared in the October 1918 edition of Stand To! No. 113] The US 2nd Divisio...

The Loss of the HMT Transylvania 4 May 1917

The liner Transylvania was completed just before the outbreak of the First World War and was to h...

The Manchester United v Liverpool match fixing scandal of 1915

Association football had, despite the outbreak of the First World War, not been suspended by the...