Recruitment & Training

The miners of Slamannan dominated the culture of the local battalion.

On the last day of the Somme three platoons were stranded behind enemy lines

Despite the Dundee Royal Naval Reserve having trained for sea they sent to the trenches.

Places in Scotland that tell a story of World War One

Hundreds of West Belfast Irish National Volunteers enlist to form 6th Connaught Rangers

Charles Glynn spearheaded a major recruitment drive in County Clare.

Cwrt-yr-ala House, Michaelston: Memories of a Garden Boy Aneurin Cadwlader Williams

Womens LAAS Training Camp, Glanusk Farm, Crickhowell, Breconshire

Military training turns into miners’ strike on Rhyl promenade.

Welsh chapels apologise for backing WW1 recruitment

The Shane's Castle estate near Randalstown was once the site of a WW1 training camp.

At the outbreak of WW1, Irving was 16 years old, he considered himself to be a man.

When city brokers joined forces to fight at the front

Where soldiers were trained and billeted before leaving for the front

Cyclists were popular in the army because of their speed and relative silence

Feeding an army at the front line

A chance discovery uncovered trenches once used to train Sheffield’s City Battalion

Two years in the making. Ten minutes in the destroying.

The teenager who proved to be an audacious army officer

When over 5,000 Territorials camped to prepare for war

‘Port number one’ for sending millions of soldiers to the front

The club established to keep local young men on the straight and narrow

When allied troops from Egypt took Nuneaton by storm – especially the local women

Formerly home to more than 3.500 soldiers and 2,000 war horses