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 Affair at Néry
The first weeks of the First World War had seen the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under Fiel...
Read MoreBiggles, 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...
Read MoreMajor 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...
Read MoreWho 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read More'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...
Read MoreThe 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....
Read MoreThe Battle of Hill 70: Victoria Cross awards
A number of Canadians earned the highest award for valour during the Battle of Hill 70. Private...
Read MoreThe Battle of Hill 70
The Third Battle of Ypres (commonly, but inaccurately known as ‘Passchendaele’) commenced on 31 J...
Read MoreAmongst the First To Fall - Early Casualties of the Royal Flying Corps i...
Death was not a stranger to the Royal Flying Corps even before the British Empire commenced hosti...
Read MoreG Battalion 1st Tank Brigade at St. Julien on 19 August 1917 by Peter Ar...
Peter Arscott relates the exploits of G Battalion 1st Tank Brigade at St. Julien on 19 August 191...
Read MoreThe Yorkshire Landings at Suvla
It is often thought that the first time the volunteers raised by Lord Kitchener went into action...
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