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7 articles in category 'WW1'.

In Flanders Fields

A third-rate poem with a first-rate fanclub. Will it never die?

Richard Law UTC 2025-11-19 08:11

Words: 3,429; reading time: 15 minutes

Updated on  2025-12-21

Range-finding

Marking Armistice Day with a poem by Robert Frost.

Richard Law UTC 2025-11-09 14:19

Words: 1,723; reading time: 7 minutes

Second Lieutenant John Kipling

Killed in action at Loos 110 years ago

Richard Law UTC 2025-09-27 07:14

Words: 10,495; reading time: 47 minutes

All pals together

Can modern Britain ever have a citizens' army again?

Richard Law UTC 2024-01-28 01:01

Words: 1,135; reading time: 5 minutes

21 March 1918: Operation Michael

The beginning of the end of the First World War, one hundred years ago.

Richard Law UTC 2018-03-20 07:22

Words: 1,714; reading time: 7 minutes

Zurich-Petrograd, one-way

A hundred years ago in April, a decisive moment in history.

Richard Law UTC 2017-03-16 18:54

Words: 8,944; reading time: 40 minutes

Updated on  2017-11-19

Quote and image of the month for July

Quote: Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That. Image: William Orpen, Ready To Start. Self Portrait.

UTC 2016-07-01 01:02

Words: 828; reading time: 3 minutes

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