David Bilton is an author who’s written extensively about World War One and the Hull Pals my great-grandfather belonged to. Matt: Where does the name Hull Pals come from? What’s all that about?

WW1 SOLDIER JACK: Mud? Oh, we know all about mud here on the Western Front. We’re living in it. We’ve dug hundreds and hundreds of miles of these trenches. They’re full of water in the winter.

World War One, or The Great War, began on August 4th, 1914, and lasted until November 11th, 1918. It was fought between the Allied Powers (mainly consisting of France, Russia and the British ...

World War One The Manchester Evening News is commemorating the centenary of the First World War with a series of special reports looking at how every family in our area was affected.