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.

Officers Pension Record Cards
Two more sets of Pension Record Cards ('PRCs') have been digitised and made available by the WFA'...
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Further examples of unusual Pension Claims
As the various projects WFA members are working on move forward, it seems a good time to update m...
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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...
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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...
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The Stories That Men Tell
When I first started working on my photographic project Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace in 2005...
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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...
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The Somme Film - Some Notes Gun Fire
[This article first appeared in the Yorkshire Branch journal ‘Gun Fire’ Book 1 1985 pp9 - 15. Th...
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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...
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The Man with Two Aliases - the explanation
I read with great interest the recent 'Trench Lines', especially the articles on hard-to-decipher...
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Blair Swannell - Lion at War
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several...
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Bernard Vann VC: Christian Soldier
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several...
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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...
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