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.
One of the ‘Forty Thieves’ Identified - Percy Fussell MM – Northampton Sain…
It’s a photograph we had seen before, without perhaps looking at it properly. An extraordinary imag…
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Olympian and Composer: Frederick Septimus Kelly
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several do…
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German Memorials on the Western Front
One of the consequences of the German occupation of France during the First World War was that their…
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The loss of HMT Dane
Like most youngsters growing up in the 60s and 70s The Great War was a long time ago, and although m…
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Oddities in the Pension Records
Within the Pension Records that The Western Front Association have saved are hundreds of thousands o…
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Stewart McVey: The soldier with TWO aliases
One of the many names listed on Le Touret Memorial to the Missing is that of Corporal Stewart McVey.…
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Memories of Verdun by Francois Wikart
The following article is based on the recollections of General Caloni and recollections of the autho…
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John Shirley - the soldier with two commemorations
The 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles was a regular battalion, which for most of the war was part of…
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Talbot House opens ambitious new permanent exhibition
In 2004, Harry Patch, ‘the Last Fighting Tommy’, opened the fully restored Concert Hall of Talbot …
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Truth in the Telling by Alexander Falbo-Wild, Chairman East Coast USA Bran…
[This article first appeared in the April 2020 edition of Bulletin, No. 116.] There is much to w…
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November 1918 in East Africa
At the end of September 1918, the German commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck had made a clean break fr…
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Fighting For The Rufiji River Crossing: The British 1st East African Brigad…
In September 1916 the British theatre commander in East Africa, General J C Smuts, had been forced t…
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