Behind Their Lines

AEF soldier of the 319th  In October of 1918, the First World War was entering its fifth year and the influenza pandemic was killing millio...

Royal Irish Rifle Troops at the Somme, July 1, 1916 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his...

First World War sheet music “In Flanders Fields,” written by John McCrae in May of 1915, is perhaps the best known Canadian poem of the war....

Father and son, Royal Engineers Image from @QMGS191418 Many poems of the First World War recount a soldier’s ima...

  “Of all the poets who have died young, none has died so happily,” said William Archer, describing Alan Seeger in the “Introduction” to...

Thiepval, Dead German Soldier, by Ernest Brooks © IWM Q 1284 Bertram Lloyd was a member of the Humanitarian League* and a conscientious...

Raised in Cambridge until she was 16, Margaret Postgate recalls the loveliness of spring in the university town: “you cannot be brought up ...