Behind Their Lines

  Red Cross Hospital #6-7, Souilly France (Oct. 1918)  Library of Congress, Signal Corps On the night of January 19, 1919, a sentry on the d...

  Battlefield of Ypres David Y Cameron, ©IWM ART 2626 It is estimated that 40,000 Welshmen died during the First World War.* One of those wa...

Stefan Sauer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images “Amputation was a daily occurrence in Europe from 1914-18, as modern warfare tore men apart in u...

For a long time, people have hand-copied poems that they love. The scribing of a poem slows our reading of it; writing out a poem makes us p...

Just four days before her twenty-fourth birthday*, Kathleen Montgomery Coates lost her only brother. Twenty-one-year-old Second Lieutenant B...

Charing Cross Station Detraining Wounded Lobley J Hodgson,  ©IWM ART2758 In early May of 1916, Helen Mackay recorded in her wartime journal,...

  An Ode to a Cootie, sketch by Pvt. Walter R. Sabel National WWI museum The French called them totos ; the British called them coddlers ; t...