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The Making of Tommy Atkins

By Major-General Sir George John Younghusband

In all his years of soldiering at home and abroad, Major-General George Younghusband had never heard British soldiers talk like those in Kipling’s tales.

The Gift of Life

By A. G. Gardiner

When columnist ‘Alpha of the Plough’ was asked to select his most memorable moment of the Great War, he told the story of HMS Formidable.

The Unknown Warrior

By A. G. Gardiner

On the day that the Unknown Warrior was laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, ‘Alpha of the Plough’ wondered if the country would prove worthy of him.

Armistice Day

By Clay Lane

Armistice Day is the anniversary of the end of the First World War on the 11th of November, 1918.