Article: WWI: British Soldiers in Trench

Article: Books: A war to start all modern wars; Ross Reyburn looks at new books which deal with the many horrors of the First World War.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ......his book The First World War (Hutchinson, pounds...roots of the Second World War to the First World War. A child's shoe in...First as the Second World War, writes Keegan. They...of shell. The First World War inaugurated the manufacture...death that the ...

Article: Ireland asks Britain to pardon soldiers, including 26 Irishmen, executed during World War I
AP Worldstream;  October 28, 2004 ;     408 words ......issue pardons to more than 300 British soldiers, among them 26 Irishmen, who...disobedience or desertion during World War I. A Department of Foreign...Campaign, which argues that the World War I executions were unjust and...its countrymen slain during World War I. The ...

Article: Other World War I battle sites in France.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 16, 1998 ;     396 words ...Other World War I sites in France: Somme...and artillery killed 20,000 British soldiers. The attack quickly bogged...during the late stages of World War I. All have impressive monuments...events. The armistice ending World War I was signed in a railway...had the car blown ...

Article: Oxford puts rare World War I memorabilia online.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  November 13, 2008 ;     224 words ...Oxford puts rare World War I memorabilia online London, Nov 13 (PTI) Rare memorabilia of the First World War, including several items related to Indian and British soldiers posted in India, have been made online. Called the...or relate to, someone's experience of the First World ...

Article: First World War tunnels to surrender their secrets
The Sunday Telegraph London;  August 26, 2007 ;     616 words ......the fields of Flanders, British soldiers found brief respite from the horrors of the First World War in "underground towns...insight into the lives of British troops on the Western Front...worst carnage of the First World War. During four years...trench maps, drawn up by ...

Article: TIME TO REMEMBER THEM; Since the end of World War Two, 16,000 servicemen - and women - have given their lives for their country. Shamefully, there is no national memorial to honour that sacrifice. Now, with the help of the Mail's generous readers, that can be changed.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: MAX HASTINGS WORLD War II ended in August 1945. Millions of British soldiers, sailors and airmen...uniform since the end of World War II. His fate can be...that of the first two British soldiers to die in Ulster in...front-page actions of World War ...

Article: Afghanistan casualty rate 'nearing World War Two level'
Evening Standard - London;  July 16, 2007 ;     324 words ...THE rate at which British soldiers are being seriously injured or killed on the front...pass that suffered by troops during the Second World War. The casualty rate in the most dangerous regions...Taliban has intensified. Last November, only three British soldiers were wounded in ...

Article: Labour denies delay on pardons for First World War deserters
The Scotsman;  March 23, 1998 ;     365 words ...BRITISH soldiers shot for cowardice or desertion during the First World War may all be exonerated in...pardon. A total of 307 British soldiers were court martialled and...cowardice in the First World War. Many of them had been...

Article: First World War soldiers' medals are paraded on the internet; Famous names rank among heroes of WWI.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  February 20, 2008 ;     557 words ......of the medals awarded to British soldiers from the First World War will go online for the first...Now people throughout the world can see the Army's entire...card written for the First World War. Each card will contain...help them find out what British soldiers ...

Article: Ex-paras tell of their admiration for today's troops ; A retired West colonel has spoken of his admiration for British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  December 9, 2008 ;     216 words ......spoken of his admiration for British soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. Speaking...certainly better equipped." World War II veterans were at the museum...British parachute attack since World War II. But he thinks troops facing...troops from the early years of World War ...

Article: World War I graves excavated in France
Charleston Gazette;  May 6, 2009 ;     221 words ......of as many as 400 long-lost Australian and British soldiers who perished in World War I. The remains, buried in a cluster of mass...the largest group of Australian remains from World War I ever found - in a muddy field on the edge...

Article: 'With a handshake we said more about peace than anything else ever could' Harry Patch vowed that he would never return to the battlefields but when the First World War veteran met an old enemy in Ypres, the two formed an unlikely bond. OLGA CRAIG reports
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ......country to pay tribute to the British soldiers who died in the two world wars and all the conflicts...one of only 20 surviving British First World War veterans, made the long...fell silent and the First World War ended, Harry wants to...in Ypres - known to the ...

Article: Veterans' fight over World War I records.
The Daily Mail (London, England);  March 16, 2005 ;     268 words ......chiefs plan to destroy the only complete record of British soldiers in World War I. The unique archive consists of six million...of service records during the German bombing of World War II. 'It's the most complete record of soldiers...

Article: Net gain for researchers of World War One
Birmingham Mail;  February 23, 2007 ;     97 words ...A NEW on-line database containing the records of millions of British soldiers who fought in the First World War was launched today. The National Archives and website Ancestry.co.uk was launching on the internet the first phase of the War Office service and pension records collections for around 2.5 ...