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 Battle of Mughar Ridge: One soldier's story
By the autumn of 1917, the allied forces had advanced from Egypt and were on the verge of advancing …
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Letters to the Unknown Warrior
Letters from students to the Unknown Warrior. On the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrio…
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Two brothers, but in different armies
It is not unusual to find brothers who were killed in the Great War. It is, however, unusual to find…
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Died one day, buried two days later by his father
On 8 November 1915 a young officer, 2/Lt Kenneth Theodore Dunbar Wilcox, was killed whilst serving i…
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The loss of Royal Navy monitor 'M-15' : 11 November 1917
HMS 'M-15' was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was sunk off Gaza by German Subma…
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Billy Brewer, the Wiltshire footballer : 13 November 1914
William Arthur Brewer was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire and was the son of George and Sarah Brewer o…
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The Aristocrats' Cemetery at Zillebeke
(This article is taken from Stand To! No 90, published Dec 2010/January 2011. You can receive copies…
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The Youngest Colonel?
When we think of ‘young soldiers’ in the Great War, we often think in terms of those who were killed…
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The British Invasion or 'The Western Front without the Trenches'
[This article first appeared in Bulletin No. 117 Pages 21-24. Western Front Association members rec…
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Death on the shoreline: The foundering of HMHS Rohilla off Whitby : 30 Octo…
For the vast majority of members of the British public, the outbreak of the First World War was not …
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The Camera Returns No.101 : Cambrai, 9 October 1918
By Bob Grundy and Steve Wall [This article first appeared in Stand To! Issue 119 October 2020. Mem…
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The Ministry of Pensions during and after the Great War
The Ministry of Pensions was a truly monolithic organisation, by the end of 1920 it had 19,121 staff…
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