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Serre 1914-18
Serre was never taken by the BEF during the Somme campaign, unlike places like Thiepval, La Boiselle & Ovillers which were eventually taken after hard fighting before the battle closed down in...
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Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915: The Unpleasant Truth
The 'battle' of Aubers Ridge - it appears ridiculous to call it so - fits perfectly the stereo-typical vision of the British in the Great War: men cut down in their thousands for little or no gain,...
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The Battle of Loos 1915
This battle, which began on 25 September 1915, was the largest conflict for the BEF in the war to that time: six divisions, that is 75,000 men, would take part. It was the debut of the divisions of the...
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Fromelles: postscript August 2010
Another Corner of a Forgotten Field: Fromelles, Northern France, 1916-2009 Introduction From time to time, even today, the human remains of Great War soldiers are found on the former battlefields of...
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Landsknechte v Sportsmen: Operation Kirschblüte - Seicheprey, 20 April 1918
This article is an extract from Stand To! Number 92, the journal of The Western Front Association. In April 1918 the Germans undertook a unique action on the Western Front in the southern part of the...
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Bellewarde, 16 June 1915
Bellewarde, a small hamlet north of Hooge which stands east of Ypres in Belgium. Since 1954 children and adults alike have enjoyed the theme park built on soil that was the location of the Battle of...
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'The Bosches seem to have done pretty well what they intended to do.' – I...
Image: An aerial view of The Bridoux Salient (top) as it appeared six days before the German raid on 5 May 1916. The German trenches were 90 yards from the apex. AWM WW1 Photomosaic collection, detail...
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The Suffolk Regiment at the Battle of Loos
The assault launched by British forces on the German army at Loos on 25 September 1915 was one of the great set-piece battles of the war - indeed the largest up to that point - but also one of the...
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The Battle of Loos – a poet’s view (the poet being Robert Graves)
Robert Graves (1895-1985) was born in Wimbledon, London, son of Alfred Perceval Graves, poet and school inspector and Amalia (née) von Ranke. Both parents came from prosperous (respectively Anglo-Irish...
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The Battle of Loos : A Poet Dies
Fig. 1. Charles Hamitlon Sorely. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. A Poet Dies by Peter Crook. As the centenary of the Battle of Loos approaches, and having recently written an article on the poet...
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