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.
'Grandad’s War' by Prof. John Bourne
Both my grandfathers were born in 1880, both were coal miners and both had large families. My pat...
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HM Submarine H5: The Submarine Cover-Up in Caernarfon Bay 2 March 1918.
HMS H5 was a Royal Navy H-class submarine built by Canadian Vickers, Montreal and launched in Jun...
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‘A Worthless Scamp’: The Great War of Vincent Riley by John Bourne
During the Great War Centenaries, Stoke-on-Trent’s local newspaper, the Sentinel, published many...
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Cases of 'insanity' revealed in the Pension Records
The Pension Records which have been saved by The Western Front Association reveal an incredible a...
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Looking back on Stand To! Book Reviews
David J. Filsell looks back on book reviews in Stand To! The Journal of The Western Front Associa...
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Gott Strafe England
The 'withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line' of February 1917 enabled allied troops to occupy previous...
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How to research Australian and New Zealand Soldiers from the First World...
An earlier article has covered the potential sources available to those who are researching Canad...
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"And Bert’s gone syphilitic" – The Real Tragedies Behind the Cane Hill H...
In 1981 nearly 6,000 bodies were exhumed from the cemetery of Cane Hill Hospital, formerly the 3r...
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Project Alias - the results and a searchable database
During the First World War, for a variety of reasons, many soldiers enlisted and served under an...
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The tale of four lads from Buckie, Banffshire
The fishing community of Buckie responded enthusiastically to the call for recruits on the outbre...
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The Military Service (Civil Liabilities) Department
Perhaps one of the most unusual items to be found within the Ministry of Pension card index are t...
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Other Ranks Survived: The Final Release of Pension Records
The final set of Pension Record Cards has just been published by our partners 'Ancestry.co.uk' on...
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