This article is based on a tragic incident mentioned by James Edmund Henderson Neville, then a junior officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was aged 19 at the…
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Background The town of Bailleul, situated a few miles to the rear of the front line of the Messines ridge, developed into a major medical and logistics centre for the British Expeditionary Force. It was…
This article may be useful if you are researching the military service of anyone who was a policeman before or during the early years of the Great War. Many policemen had previously served in the…
If you have been lucky enough to obtain a copy of a soldier’s service record it may include details of payment of a bounty. What was it all about? Army Order 86 of 1916, published…
The 10th (Service) Battalion of the Scottish Rifles returned to the front line of the Arras sector on 23 March 1917, relieving the 7/8th Battalion of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers. It war diary reads,…
I did not mention Sussex company Naval & Military Press in my recent review of online military research services. On reflection that was on omission. It is a company whose work I use almost every…
Many British military records relating to soldiers and the army of 1914-1918 have been digitised in recent years. There is no doubt that it has made finding information very much easier and quicker than before….
The classic memoir of the Great War, “Four years on the Western Front: being the experiences of a ranker in the London Rifle Brigade, 4th, 3rd and 56th Divisions” by “A rifleman” includes some wonderful,…
Today’s addition to the Long, Long Trail’s gazetteer of the Western Front is about Brandhoek, a hamlet between Ypres and Poperinge that developed into a major medical centre. See Gazetteer of the Western Front: Brandhoek
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