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.
Life and Death on the North Sea during the First World War
Perhaps the subtitle of this piece should be 'Just One Week', for that was the length of time one...
Read MoreJohn Christie Wright - Artist and Sculptor
Behind every name on a war memorial there is a story, but that of John Christie Wright, commemora...
Read MoreThe Labyrinth and the 6th Seaforth Highlanders
The Labyrinth was a maze of trenches at the southern end of the Vimy Ridge, north east of the vil...
Read MoreJohn Duxbury of 'The Miners Battalion'
Many local organisations were motivated to assist the war effort. They did this by recruiting men...
Read MoreThe Cavalry at Monchy-le-Preux
The Battle of Arras started on 9 April, Easter Monday, 1917. The most famous action in this batt...
Read MoreThe Search for Daniel Lightfoot
The search began with the war memorial on the wall of a former pub, the Dog & Partridge, 5 Ho...
Read MoreThe first French observation balloon of the Great War shot down
October 9,1915; 7am on the Somme-Suippe-Perthe, Marne, Part of the champagne region. 20th co...
Read MoreHolzminden ‘Colditz’ of the First World War?
The Second World War is probably more associated with escape exploits of prisoners of war, but th...
Read MoreThose 48 hours of torment
James William Thornton was born in Bethnal Green London in 1895 and worked initially as an indoor...
Read MoreA German cemetery in the Vosges battlefield
In the early days of the war, burials in the Vosges battlefields often took place in the forests...
Read MoreThe Accrington Pals’ ‘Dug-Out’ of Distinction – Lieutenant-Colonel Arthu...
On 16 October 1925, 51 year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wilmot Rickman had alighted from his ca...
Read MoreDevils in Skirts: The Story of George Findlater VC
The tradition of pipers leading soldiers into battle was not a Great War phenomenon. It had devel...
Read More