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• Soldiers

• Army

• Battles

• Battlefields

• Review: “Behind the lines along the Somme”

• Apologies for Amazon blanks on pages

• Army Order 42 and officers commissioned as war was ending

• Tracking down this lost memorial

• Deadly fire in the Ypres ramparts casemates 13 December 1917

• The correct sequence for wearing Orders and Decorations

• Edward Rowan: case for naming a grave

• The liberation of Landrecies

• Visualising the trenches

• Why does my soldier have two numbers (or more)?

• Fatal wound near Hill 60, a Canadian story of 26 July 1916

• 8th Lincolns captured in “Swan Trench” at Gommecourt 5 April 1918

• Lovat’s Scouts Sharpshooters

• London Pride: look out for my chapter

• Man killed, four wounded by a single shell – 60 miles from the front

• Sue Perkins’ “Who do you think you are?” grandfather Albert

• Lance, Acting and Temporary NCOs

• Review: The Staff Sergeants of the British Line Infantry

• Claims for the 1914 Star

• New article on researching Royal Naval Division … and a “then and now” found along the way

• Swimming the Danube to safety

• The bridges at Bellenglise and Riqueval

• “C” Company of 4/5th Black Watch overwhelmed near Longavesnes, 22 March 1918

• Three cyclists died in air raid 3 January 1918

• Evacuation by Ambulance Train in October-November 1914

• Lone 14th Hampshire death in the Hedge Street tunnels

• Killed in his billet: 2nd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, 27 August 1917

• Rates of pay in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

• Video talk “War on the water”

• The 4th Dragoon Guards at Messines, 1914

• Allocation of Royal Garrison Artillery Batteries to Groups/Brigades

• Infantry platoons in offensive action

• 8th North Staffords trench raid at the Chapigny “Birdcage”, 20 March 1916

• Should I join a First World War club?

• The 4/5th Black Watch, 14 October 1916, and a lost cemetery at Thiepval

• The 7th Border Regiment attack on Bayonet Trench, 23 April 1917

• Friendly fire: South Staffords at Mansel Copse, 29 May 1916

• Place of Great War memory for 1/4th Essex Regiment: a bridge in a park in Tel Aviv

• Killed while carrying tea, eight miles from the gun that fired the fateful shot

• 10th HLI reconnaissance patrol in trouble near Zillebeke, 31 August 1918

• 1/7th Black Watch hit hard at Louverval, 21-22 March 1918

• 1/6th Londons under shellfire at Souchez, 26-27 April 1916

• How reliable are dates of death? The case of Arbroath man James Milne

• Some additions to Gazetteer of the Western Front

• Yeomanry into action: the 1914 story of the North Somerset Yeomanry

• Hard time for 12/13th Northumberland Fusiliers, 16 April 1918

• 9th Norfolks disaster at the Quadrilateral, 15 September 1916

• 1/4th Royal Berkshire raid at Ave in Italy, 26-27 August 1918

• The capture of 4th Field Ambulance, 26 August 1914

• Canadian Pioneers killed at Spree Farm, 6 November 1917

• Obtaining post-1920 service records previously held by MOD

• Tactically naive schoolboys?

• Disaster strikes Number 12 Gun

• Did your soldier re-enlist for service in North Russia?

• Confused when researching a soldier of the artillery?

• “Demobilisers”, “Pivotal Men”, “Slip Men” and “Contract Men”

• “Friendly fire” at Fosse 3: 21 June 1917

• Book reviews on The Long, Long Trail

• Chaos in the Caucasus

• What was proficiency pay?

• Review: “Sniper on the Ypres Salient”

• Was your Army Service Corps soldier renumbered with a T4 prefix?

• London Scottish at Messines, Halloween 1914

• Disability pension rates

• 7th Division from landing to First Ypres 1914

• Educational trench system in Kent now open for school visits

• Review of “Charles Frederick Ball”

• Saint-Quentin guide

• Correct sequence of wearing of orders and decorations

• Welcoming Battle Guide Virtual Tours

• Review of “Chasing the Great Retreat”

• My research service reopens

• Review of “Victory at Gallipoli 1915”

• Chris wins a prestigious award

• Review of “Endell Street”

• Review of “Badges of the regular infantry 1914-1918”

• Brief review of “Germany in the Great War: Verdun & Somme”

• Review of “The Newcastle Commercials” by Ian S. Johnson

• Dame Judi Dench’s “Who do you think you are?” and Captain Reginald Arthur Dench MC

• An early trench raid: 1st Worcesters

• Last six days of a junior officer’s life: Kenneth Frost

• Review of “A visitor’s guide: the Battles of Arras South”

• Royal Marine gunners buried at Steenkerke

• Accidental death of a quick thinking and brave officer

• Review of “Krithia: Gallipoli”

• Review of “Prisoners on Cannock Chase”

• A belated goodbye to another old friend: Liz Higgins

• The myth of the dwindling battalion

• Review of “Killer Butterflies”

• Demobilisation choices for repatriated prisoners of war

• Renaming of camps in the Belgian coastal sector

• When did the Great War end?

• Talks and podcasts added to site

• New “Canada at Ypres” tour added to site

• Review of “Frank Speaking”

• Review of “Catholic General”

• Six miles from victory

• Review of “Gallipoli: the Egerton diaries and papers”

• The du Cros Motor Ambulance Convoy

• 11th Royal Scots beat off enemy raid on the “Hampshire T” at Ploegsteert Wood

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