The Long, Long Trail

The British Army of 1914-1918 - for family historians
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This section of the Long, Long Trail will be helpful for anyone wishing to understand more about why the British Army of WW1 went to war, went where it did, fought who it did, and how.

  • Entente Cordiale: why Britain went to war in 1914
  • Sir Edward Grey's speech in the House of Commons, 3 August 1914
  • Proclamations that mobilised the army
  • David Lloyd George commits to extend the British front line in France
  • Manpower crisis in the British Army in 1918
  • I will be adding more articles from time to time

Soldiers

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  • Soldier's life
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  • Hall of Memory
  • Brothers died same day

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The army

Unit histories
  • Cavalry regiments
  • Yeomanry regiments
  • Infantry regiments
  • Royal Artillery
  • Royal Engineers
  • Army Service Corps
  • Army Ordnance Corps
  • Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Machine Gun Corps
  • Tank Corps
  • Labour Corps
Order of Battle
  • GHQ
  • Armies
  • Corps
  • British Divisions
  • Australian Divisions
  • Canadian Divisions
  • New Zealand Division
  • Indian Divisions
  • Mounted Divisions
  • Home Divisions

Theatres of war

  • France and Flanders
  • Gallipoli
  • Palestine
  • Mesopotamia
  • Salonika
  • Italy

Operational records

  • Unit war diaries
  • Despatches
  • Trench and other maps
  • Ephemera

Battlefields

  • Photo tours
  • Area by area guides
  • Someone to show you?

Articles etc

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  • Great War statistics
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