Chris Baker, Author at The Long, Long Trail

The 565th Wiltshire (Army Troops) Company of the Royal Engineers (Territorial Force)

How George William Cover led me to examine this unit My interest in this unit came through my study of George William […]

Member SocMedHist47 wrote this at our “In the Dugout” forum. If you can help, please do. I’m doing research on women doctors […]

Produced by the talented Mark Ellis on behalf of the Leamington History Group. The filiming of this was done some years ago, […]

This article is derived from work I carried out for a private client in 2020, examining the life of Albert Edward Harnott. […]

The source of this information is the war diary of the General Staff at X Corps headquarters (National Archives piece number WO95/853). […]

Today I have launched “In the Dugout”, a new community space for the Long, Long Trail’s users. Over the last few days, […]

I have known about this for some time, but now it is being broadcast I can jump around a bit and say […]

In February 1916, the training of infantry officers was reorganised and a number of Officer Cadet Battalions came into existence. Prior to […]

All men presenting themselves to attest with the intention of enlisting into the Territorial Force were made aware of the general conditions […]

This article is based on work I carried out for a private client in Canada in 2025. Who was William Alderdice? William […]