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All back issues shown are currently in stock. Newer issues will be added as they are published. Please scroll down the page to view the covers and a brief resume of the main contents by article title. The magazines are listed in date order, so number 1, our very first issue, is at the foot of the page.

The Regular Features mentioned below include but are not limited to: The Great War Diary, The Bairnsfather Fragment, The Wipers Times, Great War Snippets, Mail Call, Book Reviews, Last Post, Slang of the British Tommy. Later issues also include: They Answered Their Country's Call, Slang of the Diggers, The Digger, Those Who Served and extracts from contemporary newspapers and journals.

YEAR 9

Code: GW50 - Title: July 2010 - NOT YET AVAILABLE

The Aussies at Mucky Farm - full contents to be confirmed - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW49 - Title: May 2010 - NOT YET AVAILABLE

Outwitted by the British Secret Service - full contents to be confirmed - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW48 - Title: March 2010 - NOT YET AVAILABLE

With Lawrence in Arabia - They Answered Their Country's Call - Alternative Tour Guide to the Med (2) - For King and Country - Waldron War Memorial - A Q Ship Survivor - The Incredible Albert - Some Things Never Change - The German Colonies - Pertaining to Labour Shortages in Germany - Hospital Ships and Medical Transport Ships - Remembering English Composers - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW47 - Title: January 2010 - NOT YET AVAILABLE

Beatty's Triumph - They Answered Their Country's Call - The Response - With the East Surreys (8) - Prisoner of the Germans - For King and Country - The Soul of the Western Front Battlefields - Alternative Tour Guide to the Med (1) - British War Aims - Germany Humbled at Versailles - A Letter from the Somme - The Austrians in Italy 1916 - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW46 - Title: November 2009

The Boche in Retreat - The Finest Holiday They Ever Had (2) - With the East Surreys (7) - A Great War Mystery of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Brothers in Arms - Brown's War - Into This Land of Foreign Heather b - Farewell to Henry and Harry - Mutiny! Singapore 1915 - Last Man Standing - Temporary Gentleman - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW45 - Title: September 2009

British Surrender - With the East Surreys - Airship Attack Over Cuffley - Upon The Matter of Mr Thomas Atkins - A Local Armistice - They Answered Their Country's Call - The 7th Manchesters (13) - Memorial on the Move - The Chinese Labour Corps - The Finest Holiday They Ever Had (1) - For King and Country - The Duties of an Officer - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 8

Code: GW44 - Title: July 2009

Through Terror Striken Fields - Challenging Adversity - With the East Surreys (5) - Father's War Service - Another Great War Puzzle? - Fags, Fowl, Fields and Fellowship - The 7th Manchesters (12) - A Letter from Australia - Fallen Sporting Hero - Tank Driver - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW43 - Title: May 2009

British Fighters in Italian Skies - Engagement off Trinidade - A Half Told Story - Entertaining the Troops - William 'Bill' Stone - The 7th Manchesters (11) - Wolves in Ships' Clothing - The Master Gunner from Wick - With the East Surreys (4) - The Romanovs - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW42 - Title: March 2009

Sad Farewell to Gallipoli - Leaving Australia - Figures in the Landscape - A Matter of Communication - A Letter from the Front - With the East Surreys (3) - The Death of a Hero - Uncle Joe's Legacy of Goodwill - Beauty of Women in Uniform - The Jews in Jerusalem Next Year? - The 7th Manchesters (10) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW41 - Title: January 2009

Suicide Squadron - Sing Me to Sleep - Fast Eddie - The Woman's Part - Grave Mystery at Tyne Cot - With the East Surreys (2) - Mons, The Retreat and Le Cateau (2) - French and Smith-Dorrien - The Actress and the Chaplain - 6,688 Casualties - The 7th Manchesters (9) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW40 - Title: November 2008

Down Came the Flag - With the East Surreys (1) - Good Fishing off Texel - Great War Cemeteries (Western Galicia) - With the RFC - The 7th Manchesters (8) - Echoes from the Trenches, Loos 1915 - The 'Bull', Raymond Leane MC DSO and Bar - Mons, the Retreat and Le Cateau (1) - The Somme 1916 - Flers, Martinpuich and Courcelette - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW39 - Title: September 2008

Fear and Dread - 1914 Statistics for August to December - I Was an Infantry Soldier (7) - Food at the Front - Rolling up their Sleeves - Echoes from the Trenches - The 7th Manchesters (7) - Mother Never Knew Her Father - Human Documents - From Dayton to the Argonne - Posted as Missing - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 7

Code: GW38 - Title: July 2008

I Was an Infantry Soldier (6) - Forcing the Marne - William's Life (7) - Yours Ever, Bob - War Memorials After the Great War - The 7th Manchesters (6) - The Battle of St Eloi - The Tall Tale - Might and Right - Remembrance - The BEF at War 1914 - Two Years on the Western Front (19) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW37 - Title: May 2008

I Was an Infantry Soldier (5) - Filming the First Day of the Somme - Does the Somme Still Matter? - William's Life (6) - From the Railways to the Front - From the Pen of . . . - The 7th Manchesters (5) - Another Great War Mystery? - The Walter Tull Connection - A Sticker with a Stout Heart - The Wind in the Wires - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW36 - Title: March 2008

I Was an Infantry Soldier (4) - Blood and Snow at Monchy - William's Life (5) - A True Hero - Will Ye Come to Flanders? - The 7th Manchesters (4) - The Man and the Movie - A Boche who was Brave - Two Years on the Western Front (17) - Remember - Plenty to Eat - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW35 - Title: January 2008

I Was an Infantry Soldier (3) - We Were Live Bait - William's Life (4) - A Letter to a Son - A War Romance - New Zealand at War - Moving Up - Dear Aunt - The 7th Manchesters (3) - A Battle Story - Teddy's Tale - Two Years on the Western Front (16) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW34 - Title: November 2007

I Was an Infantry Soldier (2) - First Blood at Passchendaele - William's Life (3) - James Worrell - Burnham on Sea, St Andrew's - Americans in France - The 7th Manchesters (2) - The Gunners of Flesquieres - A Lost Welsh 'Lion' - Ding-Dong Fighting - Two Years on the Western Front (15) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW33 - Title: September 2007

I Was an Infantry Soldier (1) - The Early Days of 1915 - Canada and the War - William's Life (2) - The Capture of Mafia Island - I was the First Aussie to Escape - Cover Notes - Rebuilding Ruined Lives - The 7th Manchesters (1) - Getting to Know My Grandfather - Soldiers of the Cross - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 6

Code: GW32 - Title: July 2007

At Neuve Chapelle - Gas! Gas! Gas! - William's Life (1) - Pick, Axe, Shovel and Rifle - The Man with the Twisted Nose - One of Ten Thousand (3) - A Digger's Tale - Echoes of the West Yorkshires - This is a Dog's Life! - Naming of the Old Contemptibles - Two Years on the Western Front (13) - Australian VCs - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW31 - Title: May 2007

Captured at Cambrai - Australian Convoy - Controversy at Chateau Thierry - Captain Capper MC - Ossie Fielding - From German Trenches - One of Ten Thousand (2) - Turning of the Tide - Recruiting for the Suffolks - The Tale of Bluegum - Two Years on the Western Front (12) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW30 - Title: March 2007

I Helped Smash the Prussians - Harold Keene - Two Brothers - The Padre's View - More About the RFC Please - One of Ten Thousand (1) - Famous Survivors - Fate of Couple in Zeppelin Raid - Two Years on the Western Front (11) - The Royal Scots Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW29 - Title: January 2007

Escape to Freedom - The Sea Hearse - Letter from a Subaltern - Mitty MC and Bar - The Age of Submarines - The Seamier Side of Things - Great Aunt Clara on a Camel - My Sapper Venture (29) - Attack and Counter Attack - Dead Man's Penny - Britain Grieves a National Hero - Two Years on the Western Front (10) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW28 - Title: November 2006

The Taking of Morval - The Champion who Started a Mutiny - Mutiny and Rebellion - The Baralong Incident - John Bull at War (1) - Diary Jottings - The Crested China Phenomenon - My Sapper Venture (28) - Remembrance of the Somme - A Medal Mystery - Bouquets and Bullets - Two Years on the Western Front (9) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW27 - Title: September 2006

Aboard the Lusitania - Autobiography of a Chat - Highlanders Standard Raised -The Prize Fight - Wild Eyes - Three Brothers - Our Willie - My Sapper Venture (27) - Dear Doris - A Man for all Seasons - The Battle of the Wassie - Two Years on the Western Front (8) - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 5

Code: GW26 - Title: July 2006

Young Terriers at Helles - The Dope - My Sapper Venture (26) - U-Boat Victim - Notes on Home Front Units - Archangel Takes Me to France - 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (9) - Royal Navy Sick Quarters at Wallington - Two Years on the Western Front (7) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW25 - Title: May 2006

Blood of the Terriers - Silly Girls Who Ogle the Wounded - My Sapper Venture (25) - An Appeal on Behalf of the Poor - Home from the Front - More Words of War - 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (8) - Albert Oliver MM - Two Years on the Western Front (6) - William John Tompkins - The Proud Lions of the Menin Gate - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW24 - Title: March 2006

'Aussie' - Suicide Parties on the Diyala River - General Sir Frederick Maude - Indifference - My Sapper Venture (24) - Leeds Remembers Bligny - Letters from the Dardanelles - Eley's War (13) - 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (7) - Ten German Pioneers - The Death of John Appleby - Two Years on the Western Front (5) - The Kind of Brigade Order We Don't Get - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW23 - Title: January 2006

Terror Below Decks - Eley's War (12) - A Young Cornishman's Place in History - An Unsavoury and Stinking Shell Hole - The Chatham Air Raid - Tribute to a Local Hero - 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (6) - An Odyssey of Charity - My Sapper Venture (23) - Along the Banks of the Aisne - The Other Henry Wilson - Two Years on the Western Front (4) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW22 - Title: November 2005

Under Fire! - An Unlucky Soldier - My Sapper Venture (22) - Members of the Cast - Researching a Relative (3) - Sickness and Injury in the Navy - 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (5) - Shot in the Back - Postcard from Erquinghem-Lys - Eley's War (11) - St Christopher's, Derby - Two Years on the Western Front (3) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW21 - Title: September 2005

The Attack on Polderhoek Chateau - Loss of the Vanguard - My Sapper Venture (21) - Death of an Army Chaplain - Executed for Desertion - Eley's War (10) - Rules for Trench Life - 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (3) - Thank God I Survived - Thomas Bluck - Service Record Unraveled - Two Years on the Western Front (2) - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 4

Code: GW20 - Title: July 2005

Lone Sailor Sinks U Boat - My Sapper Venture (20) - My Act of Remembrance - Letters Home - Researching a Relative (2) - The 'Women Patrols' - History of the 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (3) - Eley's War (9) - A Young Soldier - Two Years on the Western Front (1) - The Royal Dublin Fusiliers Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW19 - Title: May 2005

Private James Worrell - A Tribute to Three Brothers - Eley's War (8) - Ada's War - My Sapper Venture (19) - Great War Munitions - Notes on Home Front Units - Death of the Live Bait Squadron - History of the 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (2) - Sergeant James Adams - Researching a Relative (1) - Duxford's First Year - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW18 - Title: March 2005

I Survived the Hampshire - Kitchener - My Sapper Venture (18) - History of the 2nd/4th Ox and Bucks (1) - VAD Letter and Equipment - From an English Village - Eley's War (7) - The Man with the Donkey - Feltham Volunteer Training Corps - The Lincolnshire Regiment Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW17 - Title: January 2005

Edward Thirkell - Eley's War (6) - Albion in the Dardanelles - Third Battle of Ypres - Christmas Day 1914 - My Sapper Venture (17) - Invalid Comforts Fund - The Forgotten Army - Percy Cave - The Raid - Forty Years with Dogs (8) - The Royal Munster Fusiliers Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW16 - Title: November 2004

Our Jack's War - The German Bodies at Thiepval - My Sapper Venture (16) - Missing Without Trace, SS Erindring - Verdun - Time for a Change - Marshal Joffre - Eley's War (5) - From Sanctuary Wood Returning - Remembering Our George - The Zimmerman Telegram - Forty Years with Dogs (7) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW15 - Title: September 2004

A Comrade's Tribute - Eley's War (4) - Ypres Creepers - Aussie - My Sapper Venture (15) - John William Stocks - An Unlucky Soldier - Rescuing Russians - Forty Years with Dogs (6) - Sapper Richardson - Fit Only for Devils - Colin Knox Anderson - Brazil in Brief - The Buffs Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 3

Code: GW14 - Title: July 2004

The Charge of the Warwickshires - My Sapper Venture (14) - Christmas Truce 1917 - A Wartime Tragedy - Forty Years with Dogs (5) - Tommy's War Aims - Lost in Home Waters - I was at Poelcappelle - My Escape from England - Mystery of the Vanished Ship - The Rowbotham Brothers - Eley's War (3) - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW13 - Title: May 2004

Alfred Adams - A Long Way from Tipperary - Any News? - Eley's War (2) - The Bombing of Wednesbury - My Sapper Venture (13) - Gordon Cuthbert - My Submarine Attack - Forty Years with Dogs (4) - The Royal Berkshire Regiment Battle Honours - My Dear Mrs Atkins - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW12 - Title: March 2004

Reginald Victory Guest - The Mercantile Marine Medal - Horace Holmes Watkins - My Sapper Venture (12) - Tipperary via Stalybridge - Fallen Zeppelin L33 - Forty Years with Dogs (3) - My Uncle Charlie - Eley's War - Secrets of St Andrews - Huddersfield's Heroes - Vimy, the Legacy - Devil's Wood - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW11 - Title: January 2004

Private Reginald Tite - Stirling the Wise (4) - The London Kilties - My Sapper Venture (11) - HMS Bristol - McCrae's Ypres - Forty Years with Dogs (2) - A Shilling Returns to Mons - The Seaforths at Neuve Chapelle - The Royal Sussex Regiment Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW10 - Title: November 2003

My Family's War - McCrae and the Poppies - St Mary's Church, Bronllys - Rhodesia's Volunteers - Stirling the Wise (3) - Isabelle Barbier - 'Bobs' - My Sapper Venture (10) - Private SD 1199 - Forty Years with Dogs (1) - The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW9 - Title: September 2003

Words at War - Lutyens - Lowther's Lambs - Stirling the Wise (2) - The Training Reserve - My Sapper Venture (9) - Heroes All - Dogs at War - Call to Arms - The Song Cards - Concerning Gallipoli - Diary of a Prisoner of War - The Green Howards Battle Honours - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 2

Code: GW8 - Title: June 2003

Heroes All - A Conspirator's Testimony - The Old Royal Naval Hospital - On the Brink of War - The York and Lancaster Regiment Battle Honours - The Waggoners' Reserve - Sir Mark Sykes - My Sapper Venture (8) - St Fagans - Stirling the Wise (1) - Tommy's Ode to Tidworth - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW7 - Title: March 2003

An Inferior Officer - The Somme - The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Battle Honours - John Whitaker's War - My Sapper Venture (7) - Private Wakefield MM - From My Armchair - Hampshire Aircraft Parks - Dewsbury's Home Front Dead - Stirring Tales from Mons - Sons of Scotland Remembered - Dear Hetty and Joe - The Song of the Infantry Brigadier - A Family's Loss - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW6 - Title: December 2002

From India to the Western Front - The Seaforth Highlanders Battle Honours - Dinner at the Savoy - Memorial to a Poet - Two Roses for Remembrance - The London Cyclists - Cavell and Conscription - My Sapper Venture (6) - A Dad to be Proud of - St Edeyrns - Private Wiliam Walker - Two Simple Letters - Plucky Little Belgium - A Weak Company - Romania's Little War - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW5 - Title: September 2002

My Father's War (1) - A Corner of a Foreign Field - Special Order of the Day - Extreme and Heroic Daring - St Andrews - Imagine - The Argyl & Sutherland Highlanders Battle Honours - A Garden Party in 1918 - My Sapper Venture (5) - Cavell's Dogs - The Ballad of Davy Jones - The Medals in the Cigar Box - The Day We Occupied Baghdad - Disaster Aboard the Albemarle - plus all the regular features.

YEAR 1

Code: GW4 - Title: June 2002

Brothers in Arms - My Sapper Venture (4) - The Berkshire Yeomanry Battle Honours - From Manchester to Mons - On Hill 70 at Gallipoli - In Memory of the Nameless Fallen - Diary of an Unknown Soldier (2) - Before the Leaves Fall - St Margaret's - The Fight for Bayonet Trench - Toc H - A Letter Home - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW3 - Title: March 2002

Tribute to an Uncle - The Angel of Mons - The Sacrificial Ground - Boots! - Remembering - My Sapper Venture (3) - Maconochie - The Ghosts of Delville Wood - The Cost of War - Diary of an Unknown Soldier (1) - Warwickshire Regiment Battle Honours - Publicly Remembered at Last - Letters from a Kiwi - Great War Snippets - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW2 - Title: December 2001

A Small World - Parliament Ponders Death Sentence - St Julien - My Sapper Venture (2) - Xmas Greetings from Macedonia 1917 - Chevrons and Stripes - West Yorkshire Regiment Battle Honours - The 'Gentleman-of-War' - The Defence of Bucquoy - A Bombshell Romance - The Return of Private Abbey - To the Grave of My Grandfather - plus all the regular features.

Code: GW1 - Title: September 2001

A Machine Gunner at Gommecourt - The Soldiers' Friend - Dearest Mother - The Middlesex Regiment Battle Honours - Nurse de Trafford 1916-1920 - My Interest in War Memorials - War Memorials Inventory - The Tunnellers at St Eloi - Not Forgotten - My Sapper Venture (1) - With the RFC in Russia - plus all the regular features.