We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across ...

By 1917, the British Army could do this within a few ... then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...

Among the collection were postcards found on the bodies of the fallen, including one which pictured British soldiers. It was signed: "With love from us all – to Percy xx." Lt Pfeifer's diary ...

WW1 soldier's bugle used for Last Post at service 'It would have broken a lesser man sooner' Missing soldier 'returns from dead' Herbert Pope enlisted in early in 1915 from Surrey and was assigned ...

He worked with Brasserie de Silly to create a coppery, red British beer to satisfy the thirst of his fellow soldiers. After the war, Sgt Payne married his Belgian sweetheart Emilie Timmermans ...

Speaking personally, I can say that I was more upset than I care to mention, because I had come to look upon the 1st/5th as the one battalion in the British Army and I was proud to belong to it.” ...

Watch the “Operation Ouch! WWI Special” film and learn more about the origin of some common English words and phrases. Lesson 2: History See how far prosthetic limbs have come since WWI and write a ...

The local community still have direct links with the war. The residents of 9 Newry Road bought the house from a woman called Violet Richardson (1990-1994), who never got over the death of her brother ...