Behind Their Lines

Mary HJ Henderson, 1917 In spring of 1918, Mary H.J.  Henderson published a small collection of poetry, In War and Peace, Songs of a Scotswo...

Harvard's First World War memorial  In May of 1917, shortly after the United States declared war on Germany, French general Joseph Joffr...

The Deluge (1920) by Winifred Knights The Tate Museum, T05532 Over a century after the end of the First World War, “Lest We Forget” is an of...

Rupert Brooke, 1913, by Sherril Schell National Portrait Gallery NPG P101 In August of 1915, just months after Rupert Brooke’s death, his fr...

Richard Aldington, image mypoeticside.com    In 1923, the American editor of Poetry magazine wrote of a trip to London and her encounter wi...

John Masefield, frontispiece from Selected Poems When the First World War began in 1914, John Masefield, the second-longest serving Poet Lau...

Lt. Henry Lionel Field Henry Lionel Field, known to his friends and family as “Harry,” was an aspiring artist who was killed on the first da...