From the beginning
Every post in the order it was written: the whole story from the start.
- 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment 1914 - 1915 - a set on Flickr
- Frank Crawshaw. Soldier, Londoner
- An Introduction to Frank
- Biddy sends a letter home
- Frank goes to Cambridge
- Farewell to Arms
- Frank's little secret
- Frank's girlfriends
- We are off on Friday to the War
- A frank update
- The Dorsets set sail for war
- Bound for Le Havre
- Rest Camp No. 8
- Gare to Guerre
- D'Ors set
- House of Fraser
- Ready to march but where?
- An excellent penny cigar
- Dour by name
- No longer playing games
- Nobody calls me Cecil
- Quelle fromage
- Splendid work with machine guns
- St-Quentin, you've been living hell to me
- Luckily untouched by a Scottish accent
- Postcard from the edge
- A wash and a shave
- Speechless with thirst
- Can't get any cold tea
- A stout peasant
- A horrible little house
- The usual answer, "Eggs"
- Last hors d'oeuvres
- You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike
- Super-excellent "William" pears
- Witness to an unnecessary death
- The abandoned battery on Hill 189
- Everlasting bully beef
- Everything of the smallest value stolen
- A bottle of Harvey sauce and a ham-bone
- Black Marias and Cow-Guns
- The elderly chicken and other murders
- A locality of great interest
- The Jury is out
- The squat pen(cil) rests; snug as a gun.
- I haven't found any Thomases yet
- Tuppence a quarter
- D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
- Nun the wiser
- On the (Ed.)
- These Missy nights
- Howitzer that!
- A cellar full of excellent wine
- Steam punk engineers
- KV and other posh expressions
- Memories
- Meet Mister Sniper
- Sharp shooting Frank
- For Love and Courage
- Fog on the Aisne
- Let's camp here for the night
- Unmentionable crimes
- New Bols please
- Post rest aunt
- A train journey without a destination
- Do the Oakley-Kokey
- Dial M for Muff
- I demand to have some booze
- A move towards hot water
- The beginning of the end
- Overwhelmed
- A Bols from the blue
- Relief but for how long?
- Unlucky Dorsets join the 13th
- Cuthbert, seedy
- We're on the rue to nowhere
- Bring up the bodies
- Sacks and Violaines
- Straightening the line
- Dorset's finest and finings
- A respite of sorts
- Men at work
- Trenchant views
- Gorre blimey
- We're going to Neuve Chapelle
- Partridge captures geese
- 5th Division's band aid
- Au revoir to all that
- Promises promises
- Busman's holiday
- Plugging the gap
- If it wasn't for those bosky kids
- Le Battle Royale
- Mabel and her John Willie
- Mysterious mishaps in the mist
- Suits you sir
- Rhyme nor reason
- Four Marks war memorial
- Down the Ploeg 'ole
- They're shelling the bathroom!
- The mysterious Brixton Bill
- Postcards from the edge (of a wood)
- The Dorsets' Achilles heel
- Letters Like Buses
- They have no fear in them
- Cold kidneys on brown bread
- Knock off wood
- Snow rest for the wicked
- The tattered 15th
- Woollens for your Walloon Warriors
- A General morale boost
- British to the Backbone
- Baaah!
- Situation quiet – snipers very active
- Ten dud thuds
- Deadlock holiday
- Quite Quiet
- Peppermints and perfumed soap
- Say cheese
- Super furry animaux
- Post cartography
- Me nerves are all shattered
- Dreaming of cold tea
- Stopping a Jack Johnson
- Merry and bright
- The Wytschaete line man
- Conditions very trying
- That patrol emotion
- Heavy weather
- Having to turn out for a German
- Short stop
- Dolly mixture
- Brew ha ha
- The Wasp Factory
- Brixton - the flower garden of London
- The ballad of Frank's censor
- A salient point
- Blazin' squad
- A Twiss in the tale
- Mad men & English togs
- Have yourself a Verey merry Christmas
- Tram Blam thank you ma'am
- Do the Heuvelland shuffle
- A white lie Christmas?
- Not so Stille Nacht
- Cat amongst the turkeys
- All quiet on the Western Front
- Mary Christmas from Frank
- Storm in a tea cup
- Out with the Auld
- A shot in the arm
- How many bombs would a bomb chucker chuck?
- Dig for victory
- Not feeling fab from the jab
- Sandbags and wet rags
- Rain and Abel
- Water, water, everywhere
- Billet minion
- Loaf letters
- Wish you weren't here
- What a bastard
- Up periscope
- I never had the slightest idea of what was going on
- Waiting for Spring
- Ransome notes
- Bailleul diversity
- Asylum streakers
- Top spin lob, smash and POW!
- Resting by Musket and Saxon
- Reboot
- A dot ball for the Dorsets
- Don't rain on my parade
- A nasty accident at sea
- My name is Blücher
- Trench fervour
- Night raiders
- Humdrum day
- Stuck with the Peacemakers and the Holy Boys
- A bad moon rising
- Lamp batteries
- Incessant
- Tommies, Cooper
- Dirty rotten scoundrels
- An example of
- Poulet the other one
- I would be so glad to receive these things
- Bomb boy duck
- Albert square bashing
- Belgian chocs away
- A Shephard joins the flock
- He seemed to like getting shot at
- A Frank farewell
- My act of remembrance
- One way ticket on the Necropolis Line