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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.

An unusual Corps name: the Almeric Paget Massage Corps

Perhaps one of the more unusual Corps that served in WW1 is that of the Almeric Paget Massage Cor...

Just another ordinary soldier?

A CWGC stone, of Welsh slate rather than the usual Portland stone, marks the final resting place...

Finding Captain Brooke: The oldest Regimental Medical Officer to be kill...

On 27 May 1918 the Headquarters of the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment was surrounded during a d...

Budding Bairnsfather, Blighty Magazine and Cheery Tommy Atkins by Robert...

[This article first appeared in the August 2023 issue of Stand To! No. 131]. My dissertation exam...

In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal. The Advance of 9th Battalio...

As far as some Colonels were concerned, the writing of their Battalion War Diaries was regarded a...

A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM

Like so many that have an abiding fascination with the First World War, my interest was kindled w...

'The Grave by the Roadside' : Remembering 2/Lt. H G Thorpe who died 24 M...

One of the illustrated WFA talks ('Six Months with the King’s (Liverpool) 1917-1918’) I’ve given...

Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J. Hob...

In July 1916 the GOC II Anzac Corps, Lieutenant-General Sir A.J. Godley, ‘loaned’ his 5th Austral...

A bloody war or a sickly season: The East Yorkshire Regiment’s Regular O...

Recently, in a fit of tidy-mindedness, I went through my digital files to see if there was anythi...

The No. 2 Construction Battalion, CEF

On 5 July 1916, the No. 2 Construction Company of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was formed. It...

Sussex Women at War: Iva Mary Harland and Fanny Amelia Kennaird

The Great War is seen as an event that marked and occasioned deep and lasting social change. Hist...

Addison Barnes Perrott Hadden MC - South Irish Horse in the First World War

For many years, I have had in my sewing basket the buttons from the uniform of the South Irish Ho...