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.
Did World War One cause more tension or unity between ethnic components of …
The following essay submitted to the 2023 Colin Hardy Memorial Prize was the first runner up. It is …
Read More
‘To What Extent was the First World War the Main Reason for the Enfranchise…
The following essay by Lizzie Kenyon-Muir of Hockerill Anglo-European College in Bishops’ Stortford …
Read More
William Wells: A War at Sea and on Land
A friend has in recent years been researching his family history and knowing of my interest in World…
Read More
German submarine UC-71: a brief history
The wreck of a German mine laying submarine has recently been located and a 3D recreation of the ves…
Read More
Tom Thomas: a draper's assistant's war
Thomas Thomas was the oldest child of Evan Thomas, a carpenter, and his wife Ann, a shopkeeper. Know…
Read More
The Profitts…and Loss: A Cornish-Australian family at War.
Porthilly Cove is a small, unspoilt inlet situated on the east side of the Camel estuary that cuts i…
Read More
An unusual Corps name: the Almeric Paget Massage Corps
Perhaps one of the more unusual Corps that served in WW1 is that of the Almeric Paget Massage Corps.…
Read More
Just another ordinary soldier?
A CWGC stone, of Welsh slate rather than the usual Portland stone, marks the final resting place of …
Read More
Finding Captain Brooke: The oldest Regimental Medical Officer to be killed …
On 27 May 1918 the Headquarters of the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment was surrounded during a desp…
Read More
Budding Bairnsfather, Blighty Magazine and Cheery Tommy Atkins by Robert St…
[This article first appeared in the August 2023 issue of Stand To! No. 131]. My dissertation examin…
Read More![In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal. The Advance of 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (part of 19th [Western] Division) in the Battle of Messines 7 June 1917 by Peter Crook](/media/34278/screenshot-2023-08-07-at-043937.png?center=0.425,0.41450777202072536&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=133358581490000000)
In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal. The Advance of 9th Battalion C…
As far as some Colonels were concerned, the writing of their Battalion War Diaries was regarded as a…
Read More
A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM
Like so many that have an abiding fascination with the First World War, my interest was kindled when…
Read More