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Did Kitchener's decision to raise his "New Armies" carelessly wreck the...
The Liberal Party, which had been in power since the General Election of 1906, was nervous of German expansionism and had, by 1914, edged Britain into a much closer relationship with Russia and France...
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We Have Been Here Before: the Evolution of the Doctrine of Decentralised...
New (2013) Vice President of the WFA, Dr Christopher Pugsley has generously allowed the WFA to present his Sandhurst Occasional Paper No 9 published in 2011 on "We Have Been Here Before: the Evolution...
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Unknown Soldiers – a 1918 Draft
Introduction By late 1916 the British Army in France and Flanders was made up of four distinct types of soldier – described by the late Professor Richard Holmes as 'the old, new, borrowed and blue';...
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‘A Holocaust of Flame and Death’ The Explosions at Achicourt - 8 April 1917...
Introduction The Great War was a conflict on an industrial scale with ammunition, from small arms up to heavy artillery, being expended at a considerable rate on a daily basis. This did not come...
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The Hong Kong - Singapore Mountain Battery in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine 1915...
The Hong Kong-Singapore Royal Garrison Artillery In 1847 the British authorities in Hong Kong began using Indians as gun lascars, or general workers, because the climatic conditions were unsuitable for...
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Here come the girls! The women volunteers at the Army Pay Office Woolwich...
Abstract August 2014 will witness the centenary of the start of the First World War. It is considered that much of the historical aspect will be focused on the all-male fighting army, with little...
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The First to Fall: Britain's first casualties of war
With the centenary of the start of the First World War now being commemorated, it is appropriate to look at the first British fatalities of this conflict. This is a matter of some debate, as questions...
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The Disaster at Hooge
Battles this Month – October 1914One of the most frequently heard misconceptions about the First World War is that British and Commonwealth generals and their staff officers shared neither the...
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The composition of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914
In 1813 the Duke of Wellington, angered by incidents of looting amongst his army, wrote sourly 'We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers'. The words were harsh, but not...
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The Disaster at Hooge, 1914
One of the most frequently heard misconceptions about the First World War is that British and Commonwealth generals and their staff officers shared neither the hardships nor the dangers of the average...
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I spent this morning on Chunuk Bair
Saturday 8 August 2015 'I spent this morning on Chunuk Bair' by Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Christopher Pugsley, ONZM, DPhil, FRHistS I did it the easy way, getting there by car from Eceabat at 4.30am...
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Did Kitchener's decision to raise his "New Armies" carelessly wreck the...
The Liberal Party, which had been in power since the General Election of 1906, was nervous of German expansionism and had, by 1914, edged Britain into a much closer relationship with Russia and France...
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