How the army prepared the nation for conflict
A WW1 regiment complete in kilts and bagpipes
WW1 postcards show men practicing building bridges and pontoons
A Mansfield teacher who lived to 102 to share his patriotic tales
27 men marched to Nottingham to volunteer - 16 returned home
Why was Devon’s recruitment half the national average?
Tribunals in Calne for men who refused to fight
The remarkable diary of a Yeovil woman
Remembering the territorial soldiers who were mobilised for war
A training ground for the Grimsby Chums
The village that once housed up to 30,000 soldiers at a time
Warrenpoint hosted a World War One recruitment rally on 7th July 1915.
Some of the best preserved First World War trenches in the country
The first to go to the Western Front
From a centre of academic excellence to a military training camp
In early 1915, Omagh bicycle agent Sam Steele received an urgent order for 50 bicycles.
How did a small town cope with 200 new servicemen a day?
Dreghorn provided the only experience Scots soldiers had of trench warfare before war.
Where people worked and lived during the war
How Salisbury Plain became the army's principal training ground
Wallingford practice trenches dug by volunteer force to practice bombing and trench raids
The Castle that became a WW1 hospital and trench-warfare training ground
A perfectly legal way to get out of going back to fight: become a recruiting sergeant.
