Ellison was 40, a seasoned veteran, a front-line soldier throughout the war. He fought in the first Battle of Mons, in 1914, when the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) stood in the path of the ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no ...

When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4th 1914, tens of thousands of Scottish men quickly volunteered to join the British Army. In this article we'll look at why so many Scots volunteered ...

British munitions factories produced over 170 million artillery shells during WW1. As trenches were very good at defending soldiers from the direct attacks of enemy soldiers, other methods for ...

The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...

WWI Special” film and learn more about the origin of some common English words and phrases. Lesson 2: History See how far prosthetic limbs have come since WWI and write a letter to the Unknown Soldier ...

When author Michael Morpurgo learned about the British Army’s practice of executing its own soldiers during the First World War, it spurred him to write his 2003 award-winning novel “Private Peaceful.

Three medals awarded to the first soldier from the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion killed in action during the ...

Spain's King Alfonso XIII aided families of missing WWI soldiers Palace archive keep ... story quickly spread through France, then to the British and German press, then to the rest of Europe.