Blair Swannell - Lion at War

Blair Swannell - Lion at War

Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several do…

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Bernard Vann VC: Christian Soldier

Bernard Vann VC: Christian Soldier

Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several do…

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One of the ‘Forty Thieves’ Identified - Percy Fussell MM – Northampton Saints and the ‘Liverpool Irish’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Branch

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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