Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. All are examples of the kind of work featured in Stand To!
Battlefield clearance and a Chinese revolt
“Private Smith, one of the ordnance men in our team, was killed tampering with a 106 fuse. Chinese now totally frightene…
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The first Canadian Nurses killed by enemy action
A number of Canadian nurses died on active service – largely as a result of disease – the first Canadian nursing casualt…
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An original First World War RAF Hangar and the story of 'RFC Bramham Moor'
Anyone driving along the A64 dual carriageway between York and Leeds may have noticed at a significant barn-like structu…
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The memorials to the Bowlby Brothers
Captain Geoffrey Bowlby of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) was killed leading his squadron in a charge across 1,000 y…
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Captain Thorold A. Stewart-Jones at Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915
Son of Edward and Emily Pauline Stewart-Jones. (Born 10 July 1873 in Liverpool) A barrister of the Inner Temple, Th…
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The Grimson family and WW1
As with many spheres of life, the arts suffered many losses as a result of the First World War – as exemplified by the G…
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Tragedy and heroism in the Davidson family
On March 28, 1916, a pharmacist in Montrose, Scotland, dropped dead. The man’s wife duly wrote to the War Office to ask …
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Sir John Edward Fowler – the last repatriation from The Western Front in 1915?
By April 1915, the exhumation of bodies from the Western Front and their repatriation was banned. Historian Richard van …
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Different truths from the same battle
As dawn broke on the morning of May 6, 1915, the men of the 1/6th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers became the first…
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The US 2nd Division at Blanc Mont Ridge by Major General by David T Zabecki
[This article first appeared in the October 1918 edition of Stand To! No. 113] The US 2nd Division’s capture of the hea…
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The Loss of the HMT 'Transylvania'
The liner Transylvania was completed just before the outbreak of the First World War and was to have served the Anchor L…
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The Manchester United v Liverpool match fixing scandal of 1915
Association football had, despite the outbreak of the First World War, not been suspended by the time the season ‘kicked…
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