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.
SS Laurentic: A story of Gold Bullion, Crime and Intrigue and loss of life …
This story begins with an ordinary Pension Card that relates to a 20 year old Royal Marine named Fre…
Read MoreLieutenant-Commander Frederick 'Sep' Kelly - Olympic Gold 1908, Performer a…
Frederick 'Sep' ‘Cleg’ Kelly, the Olympic gold medal rower, pianist and officer in the Royal Naval…
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreLetters to the Unknown Warrior
Letters from students to the Unknown Warrior. On the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrio…
Read MoreTwo 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…
Read MoreDied 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreBilly 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…
Read MoreThe Aristocrats' Cemetery at Zillebeke
(This article is taken from Stand To! No 90, published Dec 2010/January 2011. You can receive copies…
Read MoreThe Youngest Colonel?
When we think of ‘young soldiers’ in the Great War, we often think in terms of those who were killed…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreDeath 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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