Review: A Group Photograph by Andrew Tatham
First World War group photos have always fascinated me and over the years I’ve featured quite a number on this site. Sometimes a reader helps to identify an individual whose story […]
New Research Resource: The Maclean’s Archive Goes Online
First World War Researchers take note: over 1300 issues of Maclean’s magazines are now online in the brand new Maclean’s Archive. The issues from 1914 through 1918 feature an interesting […]
The War Behind the Wire by John Lewis-Stempel
My great-grandfather was one of 1400 Canadian soldiers taken prisoner in April 1915 during the 2nd Battle of Ypres. He survived the war but disappeared in 1920 and as such […]
Musselburgh Roll of Honour
On the weekend I received my copy of Musselburgh Roll of Honour, a recently published book commemorating the nearly 600 men and women from Musselburgh who died during the Great War. […]
Tracing Your WW1 Military Ancestors
Researching and commemorating First World War soldiers is what Doing Our Bit is all about and so yesterday I snapped up a copy of Tracing Your WW1 Military Ancestors from the publishers […]
Great War Portraits by Keith Collman
Photo credit: Alfred Charles “Alf” Razzell, © Keith Collman I celebrate my half-centenary in 2014 and one of my greatest regrets is not having had a conversation with a Great […]
Doing Our Bit 