Ellison was 40, a seasoned veteran, a front-line soldier throughout the war. He fought in the first Battle of Mons, in 1914, when the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) stood in the path of the ...

The British soldiers even walked over to meet the Germans ... For the rest of World War I, no other truces as iconic as the one in 1914 occurred, but other, smaller ones sprang up occasionally.

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 ...

John Norris looks at a mainstay of the British Army in WWI; the 18-Pounder field gun ...

This is another Military Tale from World War I; this one is from France and shows the fortitude of the fighting men.