Behind Their Lines

Aline Kilmer with Kenton, c. 1909 (Joyce Kilmer House & New Brunswick Historical Society) Joyce Kilmer was a rising American poet, famou...

There’s something extraordinary about holding an old book in your hands, wondering about its history and journey. This summer in an Oxford b...

One of the missing of the Somme, Lieutenant Cyril Winterbotham was killed on 27 August 1916 near Ovillers, France when his battalion was ord...

Dearmer from article in Dutch Daily NRC (24 Mar. 1993), Michiel Hegener Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two of the best-known poets o...

Doiran Cemetery, Greece photo from Researching the Lives and Service Records of FWW Soldiers  “His major wrote that he was a brave and resol...

The Great Offensive, Samuel Begg ( Illustrated London News, 1916) In 1918, shortly after the death of her brother on the Western Front, Marj...

Lt. Arthur Greg, Quarry Bank archive, NT On April 23, 1917, 2Lt Arthur T. Greg was killed in aerial combat over St. Quentin, France. He was ...