Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some 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.

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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Olympian and Composer: Frederick Septimus Kelly
Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several...
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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 th...
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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 althoug...
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Oddities in the Pension Records
Within the Pension Records that The Western Front Association have saved are hundreds of thousand...
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