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.

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
2nd October 2018
Stumbling towards victory
19th September 2018
Review of “Dublin’s Great Wars”
3rd September 2018
Review of “Epitaphs of the Great War”
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
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
28th October 2018
Synchronise watches!
27th October 2018
The fight for Claude, Clarence and Cuthbert Craters
28th September 2018
Deadly air raids on Saint-Omer in September 1917
31st August 2018
A tribute to my battlefield pal, Brian Morris
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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