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, 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
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”
12th January 2020
Review of digital services from Naval & Military Press
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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