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 GIFT OF HER SORROWING PARENTS’
The Great War still casts long shadows, even more than a hundred years on, and often in the most...
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James VII and James VIII: Two outstanding officers
In a footnote in the History of the 62nd (West Riding) Division, written by Everard Wyrall, there...
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‘Light Sewings’ and the British War Effort
Whenever I come across an example of the inordinate amount of time it seems to take in modern Bri...
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Five sons lost in the war: a Nottingham family’s loss
An earlier article, written for the Western Front Association website, lists the handful of the e...
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Operation Türkenkreuz: the Gotha — The prelude
It was widely believed by 1917 that the airship menace had been conquered. The monsters in the sk...
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Lt Col Thomas Wilton: ‘A VERY CAPABLE MAN’
This familiar white Portland headstone of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission stands out among...
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Killed by Treachery
Whilst working on an index that was being created for the two volumes of ‘The Bond of Sacrifice’,...
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First World War Graves and the Memorial to the Missing in Persia
Whilst investigating the stories of three Indian Army officers who were ‘killed by treachery’ in...
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Whipsnade Tree Cathedral: ‘Here was something more beautiful still…’
Not all First World War memorials are built of brick and stone. Some are shaped by the scarred la...
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The Pirate of Basra
It is not often a 'Naval VC' comes up at auction, but the recent (March 2025) sale of the Victori...
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Not forgotten: a Belgian soldier remembered in Kent
On 6 February 2025, a small ceremony took place in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, in Weste...
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The Kohima Epitaph: ‘When you go home...’
Most people recognise what we know as the ‘Kohima Epitaph’, which is a moving and familiar part o...
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