Welcome to the Long, Long Trail
From website author, Chris Baker
I am very pleased to welcome you to the Long, Long Trail, my site dedicated to helping you discover the British army and its soldiers of the First World War.

I am very pleased to welcome you to the Long, Long Trail, my site dedicated to helping you discover the British army and its soldiers of the First World War.

Researching soldiers
Volunteers, conscripts. Gunners, Sappers, Donkey Wallopers and the Footsloggers of the PBI! Research them. Understand their life in the army. Find out where they went and how they fought.
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Latest reviews
12th Feb 2019
Review of “Duty nobly done”
12th Feb 2019
Review of “Two sides of the same bad penny?”
1st Feb 2019
Review of “On the dangerous edge”
Researching the Army

Regiments, Divisions, Corps, Orders of Battle, Units, Regulations and how the army actually worked. The bewildering technicalities of Britain's largest-ever organisation all explained.More
Researching the Battles

The British Army fought in numerous theatres of war during WW1, and in each of them a number of battles and engagements took place. Find out what and when, who took part and what happened.More
Latest articles
5th Jan 2019
The strange case of Aaron Charles Warren
6th Dec 2018
Post-1918 adoption of French towns and villages
28th Oct 2018
Synchronise watches!
27th Oct 2018
The fight for Claude, Clarence and Cuthbert Craters
Battlefields and legacy
Where were the battlefields of the Great War? What are they like today? What is the best way of visiting them?
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