Behind Their Lines

Käthe Kollwitz, "The Mothers" Although best known for her Anne of Green Gables fiction series, L.M. Montgomery was first publishe...

The Sisters , by Edmund Dulac IWM ART 2059 One of the best-known English poems of the First World War is one of the earliest written: Lauren...

  Austrian troops advancing in the  Carpathians (image from Library of Congress) “How many of you have had the pleasure of seeing your own g...

Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island Poetry of the Great War can turn up in the most unlikely of places.  If you watch the tides of the Northum...

Edward Thomas On the first day of the battle of Arras, April 9, 1917, Edward Thomas was killed by an artillery shell. He had arrived in Fran...

Arthur Lewis Jenkins Photo by Auxiliary Portrait Studio, Westminster Arthur Lewis Jenkins joined the British Army in September of 1914 and w...

  A relieved platoon of 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment at Hébuterne, France c. 1916 by Fred Roe Previous posts on this blog have ...