By 1917, the British Army could do this within a few ... then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine ...

We all know the stories of the horror of trench warfare in the First World War. Waves of soldiers clambering out of their trenches into a hail of gunfire and nests of barbed wire strewn across no ...

The previously unmarked grave of an Edinburgh man of the 1st (Royal) Dragoons has now been identified and marked more than a ...

The bodies of five British soldiers killed in the First World War have been found in a network of trenches at Ypres, Belgium. More than 80 years after their deaths, archaeologists discovered the ...

Dan Snow describes the food rations supplied for British soldiers during WW1 and compares these with what German soldiers had. The value of different foods is touched on and we learn that ...

WWI Special” film and learn more about the origin of some common English words and phrases. Lesson 2: History See how far prosthetic limbs have come since WWI and write a letter to the Unknown Soldier ...