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.

The Armistice and Afterwards: Extracts from the Diaries of QMS Edgar Wig...
The Armistice and Afterwards: Extracts from the Diaries of QMS Edgar Wignall RAMC by Clive R Harr...
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A Memoir of the Final Advance 1918
A Memoir of the Final Advance 1918 by Sergeant W G Sweet, 2nd Monmouthshire edited by Barry Johns...
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Captain Horace Coomber
Captain Horace Coomber By Gareth Morgan This article first appeared in the Australian Society...
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Haig and the Cavalry
By Bob Bushaway Reproduced with the permission of the 'Journal of the Centre for First World War...
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The First Tanks at Elveden by David Fletcher
Drive up the A11, through Suffolk, as if you are heading for Thetford in Norfolk and if you can t...
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Lance Corporal William Cotter : 14 March 1916
The following account is based on Gerald Gliddon's account of Cotter's career published in 'VCs o...
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The story of how 2nd Lieut. Edward Felix Baxter was awarded the VC : 16...
The short biography that follows is based on the account which appears in Gerald Gliddon's 'VCs o...
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Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Carter DSO and Bar, MC and Bar
This article is the story of a man from a working class background who joined the British Army as...
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'The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme 1916' reflections by Rev. Dr R...
‘A slightly amended version of this article first appeared in the Church Times'. I once met an ol...
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How a Stockton man won the VC
Ted Cooper writes how his granda won the VC. Edward Cooper was born in Stockton on the 4th May 1...
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An Irish Soldier in the British Army
Survivors of 47 Brigade going back to rest area after the Battle of Guillemont-Ginchy, September...
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Romania
By Harald Heppner and Rudolf Gräf World War I afforded the first opportunity for modern Romania t...
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