About fourteeneighteen

fourteeneighteen provides research services for private clients, universities, broadcast media, museums, regimental associations and others who wish to locate, obtain and understand documents from the period of the First World War.

History and development

Chris BakerThe business is the brainchild of Chris Baker, the author of the Long, Long Trail website, founder of the Great War Forum, former Chairman of the Western Front Association and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham School of First World War Studies.

Chris began researching soldiers as a hobby. Through his websites many people began to ask for assistance, either because they found it hard to travel to the various archives, could not find what they sought or more importantly did not understand it when they did. After doing what he could on a part-time basis Chris ended his career in business to concentrate on fourteeneighteen, in April 2008.

Most of the archival work and all of the interpretation work is carried out by Chris himself. He enjoys the assistance of an extensive network of regimental and other military experts in UK and overseas.

From the research beginnings, the business has developed to include private battlefield tours and in 2011 plans to launch a specialist publication.

Over time Chris and fourteeneighteen have examined and reported on the careers of almost 4000 soldiers of the British Army and led numerous battlefield study tours.

Legal details

fourteeneighteen is a trading name of Milverton Associates Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom (number 04582510), and all our client engagements are undertaken on the basis of a contract between client and company. This is to ensure that clients have full assurance that they are dealing with something solid and reliable, and that we work to the appropriate standards required by law and the taxman.

Until 2008 the business traded under the name of Great War Family Research.