Behind Their Lines

Poetry of the Great War

Monday, January 29, 2018

Laughing at war

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Pantomime rehearsal at Baupaume Jan 1918,  © IWM Q8378 Recovering in hospital from a war wound, Canadian soldier Tom Johnson wrote to h...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

An Irish Airman

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Major Robert Gregory On January 23, 1918, an Irish pilot and recipient of the Military Cross was killed when his plane fell from the...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Only a Boche

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French soldier, German POWs, volunteer ambulance driver “It was eerie never to see Germans, or almost never,” writes Paul Fussell in Th...
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