Behind Their Lines

Charles GD Roberts   Wilfred Owen wrote of the "doomed youth" of the First World War, but not all soldiers were young.   The ...

Wilfred Owen  One-hundred and twenty-two years ago today, on March 18th, 1893, British poet Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire, England...

"It's a long way to Tipperary" is remembered as a song of the First World War, although it was composed before the war...

Neuve Chapelle Memorial photo by Andrew Holmes One-hundred years ago this week, on March 10th through the 13th of 1915, the British a...

  Over 5,000 British priests and pastors served as army chaplains or padres during the First World War.  Their job was to provide spirit...

Movies and war: nearly all of us are familiar with the World War II movies Saving Private Ryan, The Dirty Dozen, and Schindler's L...

Killed May 13, 1915 A captain in the Royal Horse Guards, Colwyn  Philipps arrived in the Ypres Salient in early November of 1914.  ...