Behind Their Lines

Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island Poetry of the Great War can turn up in the most unlikely of places.  If you watch the tides of the Northum...

Edward Thomas On the first day of the battle of Arras, April 9, 1917, Edward Thomas was killed by an artillery shell. He had arrived in Fran...

Arthur Lewis Jenkins Photo by Auxiliary Portrait Studio, Westminster Arthur Lewis Jenkins joined the British Army in September of 1914 and w...

  A relieved platoon of 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment at Hébuterne, France c. 1916 by Fred Roe Previous posts on this blog have ...

  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...