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![A Tour of Mesopotamian War Cemeteries in 2003](/media/11044/372-cwgc-amara-cross-of-sacrifice-0605.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132347087738670000)
A Tour of Mesopotamian War Cemeteries in 2003
In the early summer of 2003, fortunately or not, I found myself and the Battalion I was commandin...
Read More![Across from the Parade Ground Soldiers: assessing the French performance at the Somme](/media/11034/article-header-image.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132347035404170000)
Across from the Parade Ground Soldiers: assessing the French performance...
The bulk of this article is a long explanation as to the finding of a brief answer: despite suffe...
Read More![The Stories That Men Tell](/media/11033/14-2014-09104-loos.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132347005037430000)
The Stories That Men Tell
When I first started working on my photographic project Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace in 2005...
Read More![Hooge tunnel, Essex farm (and other) drawings (1)](/media/11000/hooge-2.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132342962373230000)
Hooge tunnel, Essex farm (and other) drawings (1)
[This article first appeared in the Yorkshire Branch journal ‘Gun Fire’ Book 53 pp 14 - 23. Th...
Read More![The Somme Film - Some Notes Gun Fire](/media/10989/screenshot-2020-05-18-at-144505.png?center=0.36272040302267,0.58333333333333337&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132342890967730000)
The Somme Film - Some Notes Gun Fire
[This article first appeared in the Yorkshire Branch journal ‘Gun Fire’ Book 1 1985 pp9 - 15. Th...
Read More![The Soldier who never was: An example of a Change of Name in the Late-Victorian Army](/media/10966/capture.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132340138111800000)
The Soldier who never was: An example of a Change of Name in the Late-Vi...
Every student who undertakes research into the personal histories of soldiers who served in the V...
Read More![The Man with Two Aliases - the explanation](/media/10928/tgse00668_m.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132334085428470000)
The Man with Two Aliases - the explanation
I read with great interest the recent 'Trench Lines', especially the articles on hard-to-decipher...
Read More![Blair Swannell - Lion at War](/media/10870/wfa-lions-p02pxddz.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132328908357730000)
Blair Swannell - Lion at War
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several...
Read More![Bernard Vann VC: Christian Soldier](/media/10897/richard_coles_dog.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132331448828570000)
Bernard Vann VC: Christian Soldier
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several...
Read More![One of the ‘Forty Thieves’ Identified - Percy Fussell MM – Northampton Saints and the ‘Liverpool Irish’](/media/10892/fussell-capture.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132330841810930000)
One of the ‘Forty Thieves’ Identified - Percy Fussell MM – Northampton S...
It’s a photograph we had seen before, without perhaps looking at it properly. An extraordinary i...
Read More![Olympian and Composer: Frederick Septimus Kelly](/media/10869/wfa-kelly-p0249fyt.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132328908354130000)
Olympian and Composer: Frederick Septimus Kelly
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several...
Read More![German Memorials on the Western Front](/media/10848/11-2014-00286-vosges-tetefaux.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132327111461300000)
German Memorials on the Western Front
One of the consequences of the German occupation of France during the First World War was that th...
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