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Researching soldiers of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1919

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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.

Researching soldiers

Volunteers, conscripts. Gunners, sappers, infantrymen, machine gunners and cavalry. Research them. Understand their life in the army. Find out where they went and how they fought.
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Latest reviews

26th March 2020

Review of “Following in the footsteps of heroes”

18th February 2020

Review of “With valour and distinction”

17th February 2020

Review of Richard van Emden’s “Missing”

19th January 2020

Review of “The first and the last of the Sheffield City Battalion”

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

16th March 2020

Was your soldier a policeman before or during the Great War?

23rd February 2020

Was your soldier paid a bounty?

17th February 2020

10th Scottish Rifles trench raid and an oft-used photograph

12th January 2020

Review of digital services from Naval & Military Press

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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Imperial War Museum photograph Q1985. Road at Tincourt, France, in an area flooded by the Germans, April 1917.

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