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The Final Offensive : The 1993 Presidential Address delivered by the Hon...

[This article first appeared in Stand To! 40 pp 5-11] When the Armistice came on 11 November, sev...

'Passchendaele' The 1992 Presidential Address delivered by the Honorary...

(This article first appears in Stand To! 37 Spring 1993 pp6 - 10 This year, 8 November was Remem...

‘The U-Boat Wars, 1916-1945’ The Presidential Address delivered by the H...

(This article first appeared in Stand To! 28 Spring 1990 pp7-11) As some of you will know, but ot...

Germany 1917. The 1987 Presidential Address 'Germany 1917' delivered by...

Germany 1917. The 1987 Presidential Address delivered by the Honorary President John Terraine...

Relearning the Lessons. John Terraine’s 1984 WFA Address

Relearning the Lessons. John Terraine’s 1984 WFA Address John Alfred Terraine, FRHistS (15 Janu...

The Generals. John Terraine's 1982 Address to The Western Front Association

[This piece, a transcript of John Terraine's 1982 address, first appeared in Stand To! No. 7 Spr...

After Amiens – 38th (Welsh) Division

It happened in the barber’s where my mother had taken me when I was a young child. ‘Mummy, why is...

Arthur Boyle Private and Pensioner

Painting by Diane Lavery 1998 from a photograph of Arthur Boyle taken in 1917 Arthur Boyle, b...

Divisional Concert Troupes

This item appeared first appeared in Communication Lines (letters to the editor) in the Stand To...

The Final One Hundred Days of the Western Front

Introduction The British involvement in war on the Western Front lasted for 1,294 days: from the...

Tom Cormie’s War Diary 1917-18

'Thomas Cormie, born 16th September 1893 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland was my father', writes Andr...

Malaria in the Great War

A 1946 map by kind permission of the World Health Organisation) Malaria in the Great War by Dr D...