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Chris Baker

fourteeneighteen/research is Chris's brainchild:

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Chris is well-known amongst those who study WW1. He is a former Chairman and Tours Officer of the Western Front Association but nowadays is perhaps best known for his websites The Long, Long Trail and the Great War Forum, which more than 3 million people have visited.

A Chartered Engineer by profession, he has developed what was a hobby and personal interest into a very full-time career. After 25 years of intensive work of exploration, Chris is now justifiably recognised as a subject-matter expert. He has arranged study tours to Ypres, the Somme, Cambrai, Mons, Verdun and other places of memory and regularly speaks and writes on Great War topics.

He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Birmingham Centre for First World War Studies and a member of the Douglas Haig Fellowship.

In December 2007, Chris proudly graduated with a MA (with Distinction) in British First World War Studies from the University of Birmingham. His dissertation was on the Supreme War Council 1917-1918.

"I was where you are now!"

"When I started my own family research into the Great War, looking for the history of my grandfather, I found it was very hard work. I was not then an expert in military matters, just someone interested in their family history. I found to my dismay that the sources of detailed information are hard to come by. Books and CDs on the subject are extremely expensive if all you want to do is look up some details, and many of the original records are in the National Archives in Kew or buried in regimental museums. That makes it really hard going if you live outside London as I do, even with more material coming onto the Internet.

Having learned the hard way, I became determined to help others through the rewarding experience of finding out what really happened to their forebears in 1914-1918. The Long, Long Trail website, a resource for self-help which I began in 1995, was one way. The Great War Forum, established in 2002 and which now has more than 17000 like-minded members, was another. And since 2002 - in response to hundreds of requests - by offering this reliable, sensibly priced and high quality research service"

 

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