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 End of The Zeppelins
This item first appeared in Stand To! No. 31 (Spring 1991). It was the 22nd piece in a series tit...
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Revist 'The Camera Returns' (47) Beaucourt-en-Santerre with Google Stree...
The Camera Returns (47) Beaucourt-en-Santerre. Original research by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy. Tr...
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The Advance Beyond Kilimanjaro German East Africa (now Tanzania), March...
Whilst the 2nd East African Division under Major General M J Tighe prepared to fight the battle o...
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The Battle of the Bees
The First World War was a global conflict. Although the vast majority of the fighting took place...
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The Final Whistle: Rosslyn Park - a Rugby Club at War
This is the story of fifteen men and more from one London rugby club who answered the call to arm...
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The golden locket, the hidden grave and the forgotten soldier : Ireland...
On Easter Monday, 24 April 1916, as the independent Irish Republic was being declared from the st...
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The Battle for the South Dublin Union 1916
On 24 April 1916, Patrick Pearse declared an independent Irish republic from the steps of the Gen...
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The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, Dublin, 1916
Dublin, Ireland is very far from the killing fields of the Western Front. Yet it was here in the...
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The Easter Rising - Dublin 1916
The Battles of the First World War took place in many countries and across various continents - f...
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Royal Automobile Club Volunteer Force 1914
In August 1914 the British Expeditionary Force embarked for France and was considered the most pr...
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The 1/7th Royal Scots and the Quintinshill Rail Disaster : 22 May 1915
At the time of the First World War, Britain had a large number of railway companies each owning v...
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General Maude and the Recapture of Kut
With temperatures ranging from freezing to 130ºF (50ºC) the campaign in Mesopotamia (modern day I...
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