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 Camera Returns (19) Chinese Labour Corps, Noyelles-Sur-Mer by Bob Gr...
[This article first appeared in Stand To! No.36 Winter 1992. The authors, Bob Grundy and Steve Wa...
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Gunner Mustill and the hair dressing salon at Arras
Although the Great War is now more than 100 years ago, sometimes signs of the conflict can be obs...
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Francis McLaren, Liberal MP for Spalding : Gallipoli and RFC
On 30 August 1917, Francis McLaren, who was a Liberal MP for Spalding, was killed in an Avro 504...
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Accidentally killed by one of his own : 5 June 1918
It won't be a surprise to anyone to know that patrols could be dangerous. We have heard recently...
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The Affair at Néry
The first weeks of the First World War had seen the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under Fiel...
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Biggles, the Battle of the Flowers and the RAF in the First World War
In the rarely visited Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Charmes (some 25 miles due s...
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Major John Noble Jephson of 'Jephson's Post' : 29 August 1915
On 29 August 1915 a Major John Jephson died of his wounds which had been sustained in the fightin...
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Who was the first British soldier to be killed in the First World War in...
It is often asserted that the first British soldier to be killed in the war is buried very close...
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The Camera Returns No.25 by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy
A battery of 18-pounder guns of the Royal Field Artillery moving up towards Mailly-Maille...
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'Waiting for the Wounded' by Sir David Muirhead Bone (1876-1953)
['War Art' was a regular featured in Stand To! the journal of The Western Front Association betwe...
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The Diary of Dr. Cyril Helm, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. (1888 - 1972) August 1914
The following are taken without alteration from daily entries made in an Army Book 129 whilst Dr....
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The Battle of Hill 70: Victoria Cross awards
A number of Canadians earned the highest award for valour during the Battle of Hill 70. Private...
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