The Long, Long Trail

The British Army of 1914-1918 - for family historians
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Gazeteer of the Western Front

The section of the Long, Long Trail will be helpful for anyone tracing the movements of soldiers or units from detaisl given in letters, diaries, books or operational records, and for those planning a battelfield tour.

Somme

Mametz
Montauban

 

Soldiers

  • Research a soldier
  • Soldier's life
  • Insights
  • Brothers died same day

Seek help

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  • Sources of help

The army

Unit histories
  • Cavalry regiments
  • Yeomanry regiments
  • Infantry regiments
  • Royal Artillery
  • Royal Engineers
  • Army Service Corps
  • Army Ordnance Corps
  • Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Machine Gun Corps
  • Tank Corps
  • Labour Corps
Order of Battle
  • GHQ
  • Armies
  • Corps
  • British Divisions
  • Australian Divisions
  • Canadian Divisions
  • New Zealand Division
  • Indian Divisions
  • Mounted Divisions
  • Home Divisions

Theatres of war

  • France and Flanders
  • Gallipoli
  • Palestine
  • Mesopotamia
  • Salonika
  • Italy

Operational records

  • Unit war diaries
  • Despatches
  • Trench and other maps
  • Ephemera

Battlefields

  • Photo tours
  • Area by area guides
  • Someone to show you?

Articles etc

  • About the author
  • Great War statistics
  • Great War firsts
  • Book and other reviews
  • Links
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