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![Donald Where’s Your Troosers?](/media/30294/pic-2-5.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132989095118800000)
Donald Where’s Your Troosers?
Once the stalemate of trench warfare set in during the autumn of 1914 it was not long before the...
Read More![The Real Winslow Boy](/media/30282/pic-11-2.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132989088664300000)
The Real Winslow Boy
In 1946, Terence Rattigan wrote the play ‘The Winslow Boy’ – a story of a father’s fight to clear...
Read More![Le Cimetière Militaire de Soultzmatt, Alsace](/media/30234/roumain-cem-7.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132974254751930000)
Le Cimetière Militaire de Soultzmatt, Alsace
We came across the cemetery by chance, driving through the Val de Pâtre along a peaceful road hea...
Read More![Death of a Princess : The Destruction of HMS Princess Irene 27 May 1915](/media/30210/irene-picture-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132971716823830000)
Death of a Princess : The Destruction of HMS Princess Irene 27 May 1915
In May 1913 the Canadian Pacific Railway had placed an order with Denny’s of Dumbarton for two ne...
Read More![Private Alfred Berry and the Zeebrugge Raid 1918](/media/30129/picture7.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132967450939800000)
Private Alfred Berry and the Zeebrugge Raid 1918
The Zeebrugge Raid of St. George’s Day 1918 was an audacious attempt by the Royal Navy to neutral...
Read More!['Health in returning veterans of the First World War: The impact of wounds, agassing, injury, and medical and psychological conditions from a study of the pension ledgers' by Dr Peter Hodgkinson](/media/34727/screenshot-2023-10-04-at-083835.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=133408823301670000)
'Health in returning veterans of the First World War: The impact of woun...
Introduction – disability and impairment In 2021 some 24 volunteers from The Western Front Associ...
Read More![Football in the First World War](/media/29984/pic-4-3.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132962159217530000)
Football in the First World War
For the the 2021/2022 season, Saturday 14 May marks the playing of the FA Cup final, 150 years on...
Read More![How Reference numbers were used in WW1 Pension claims at Chelsea and in the Pension Issue Office](/media/29969/unnamed123.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132960827388130000)
How Reference numbers were used in WW1 Pension claims at Chelsea and in...
In this article the author looks at those pension reference systems used by the Ministry of Pensi...
Read More![The Controversy of Commemoration in Ramsbottom after the First World War](/media/29941/memorial2.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132957876423770000)
The Controversy of Commemoration in Ramsbottom after the First World War
War memorials are contentious: the commissioning of large public sculptures has often divided com...
Read More![Brothers in Arms: Three Died and Three Survived the First World War](/media/29924/willis10.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132957327131830000)
Brothers in Arms: Three Died and Three Survived the First World War
The First World War resulted in terrible suffering for many families, but the Willis family was a...
Read More![Field Artillery and Infantry on the Western Front during the FIrst World War](/media/29869/british_and_french_artillery_observers_battle_of_langemarck_1917_iwm_q_2723.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132953820949330000)
Field Artillery and Infantry on the Western Front during the FIrst World...
In August 1914, and again in November 1918, the Royal Field Artillery of the British army was fig...
Read More![Harry Lauder: The World's First Musical Superstar and Broken Parent of the First World War](/media/29867/captlauderwthdad.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132953804366570000)
Harry Lauder: The World's First Musical Superstar and Broken Parent of t...
“Have you news of my boy Jack?" Not this tide. "When d'you think that he'll come back?" Not with...
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