In the 1930s, a series of magazines were published that were relatively recent reflections of the Great War by those who served in it and with their own photos and biographical accounts. Although only intended to be two volumes, they eventually spanned three.
In 2021, Rich Fisher spotted an offer for a full set for free to anyone who collected from the owner, Martyn Hordern. Rich and Martyn agreed to have them posted at cost to the VMGCRA so we could scan and share them as they are believed to be out of copyright. They had already been reprinted and sold as bound editions but these were the original weekly parts.
Each part is scanned on a week-by-week basis and shared using the VMGCRA Patreon portal. Although Patreon is a subscriber service, they are shared freely and no subscription is required. As part of the process, the parts are being indexed and the details, including a link to each, are below.
Volume I

Part 1
6 November
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-1-54737856
- The Birth of An Idea
- Memories I – A Gunner Looks Back
- How the War Began
- The Menin Road (Then and Now)
- The Men of 1914

Part 2
13 November
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-2-54739123
- The Contemptibles at Mons
- Ypres (Then and Now)
- Le Cateau to The Aisne

Part 3
20 November
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-3-55213456
- Le Cateau to the Aisne (cont)
- From Passchendaele to Westhoek Ridge (Then and Now)
- The First Battle of Ypres
- Memories of the First Winter, 1914-15

Part 4
27 November
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-4-55575461
- Memories II – Bruce Bairnsfather Looks Back
- Advance Guard of the Citizen Army in France
- South of Ypres (Then and Now)

Part 5
4 December
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-5-55836364
- With the King’s Ships in 1914
- Around Armentieres (Then and Now)

Part 6
11 December
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-6-55837155
- Memories III. – Ian Hay and Kitchener’s Army (Major Ian Hay Beith)
- The Adventure in Mesopotamia
- From Bapaume to Guillemont (Then and Now)
- Behind the Lines: First and Second Armies (R H Mottram)

Part 7
18 December
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-7-56432741
- An Empire in Arms
- North of Albert (Then and Now)
- What of the Dardenelles?
- The Navy in 1915

Part 8
23 December
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-8-56681228
- The Navy in 1915 (continued)
- Neuve Chapelle
- East of Arras (Then and Now)
- Memories IV – A Sub-Lieutenant, R.N., looks back
- The Ypres Salient To-Day.

Part 9
1 January
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-9-56682367
- The Epic of the Gallipoli Landings
- From Brie to Bellenglise (Then and Now)
- “Second Wipers”

Part 10
8 January
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-10-56683301
- “Second Wipers” (continued)
- Memories V. – An Aussie Looks Back
- Lens (Then and Now)
- Mesopotamia: Shaiba to Azizya

Part 11
15 January
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-11-57636931
- Mesopotamia: Shaiba to Azizya (continued)
- The Navy’s Stranglehold
- From Boesinghe to Poelcappelle (Then and Now)
- The Western Front: Summer of 1915

Part 12
22 January
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-12-57942861
- The Western Front (Summer of 1915) (cont.)
- Sorrowful Weeks Before Achi Baba
- Around Bapaume (Then and Now)
- Songs of the Great War

Part 13
29 January
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-13-58170473
- Songs of the Great War (continued)
- Behind the Lines: Third, Fourth and Fifth Armies.
- Around Messines (Then and Now)
- The Battle of Suvla Bay

Part 14
5 February
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-14-58493974
- The Battle of Suvla Bay (continued)
- Gallipoli To-Day
- Memories VI. – A Tommy Looks Back
- Loos: The Unwanted Battle

Part 15
12 February
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-15-58768692
- Loos: The Unwanted Battle (continued)
- From Courcellette to Warlencourt (Then and Now)
- The Loos Battlefield Revisited
- First Winter of the New Armies

Part 16
19 February
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-16-58772361
- First Winter of the Great War (cont)
- Beyond the Ancre (Then and Now)
- Memories VII – An Adjutant Looks Back
- Salonica 1915

Part 17
26 February
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-16-58772361
- Salonica, 1915 (continued), including some #VickersMG photos
- Last months at Gallipoli
- Around Thiepval (Then and Now)
- Egypt during 1916

Part 18
5 March
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-18-59726319
- Egypt during 1918 (continued)
- Memories VIII – The Divisional Ammunition Column
- Scotland’s Noble Shrine
- Mesopotamia: Battle of Ctesiphon to Fall of Kut

Part 19
12 March
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-19-59946979
- Mesopotamia: Battle of Ctesiphon to Fall of Kut (cont.)
- The Spring of 1916
- East of Albert (Then and Now)
- Sir Douglas Haig assumes command

Part 20
19 March
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-20-59948814
- Sir Douglas Haig assumes command (cont.)
- The Battle of Jutland
- Around Guillemont (Then and Now)
Volume II

Part 21
26 March
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-21-60433165
- The Poetry of the Great War
- The Somme and the New Armies
- The Somme: The Battle
- West of Peronne (Then and Now)

Part 22
2 April
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-22-60763958
- The Somme: The Battle (cont.)
- How they lived and died on the Somme.
- Memories IX: At Jutland with the Battle-Cruisers.
- The Salonica Front, 1916.

Part 23
9 April
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-23-60987032
- The Salonica Front, 1916 (cont.)
- The Somme Battlefields Revisited
- South of Albert (1) (Then and Now)
- Towards the Holy Land

Part 24
16 April
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-24-60990867
- Towards the Holy Land (cont.)
- A Tank Corps Officer Looks Back
- Arras (Then and Now)
- The Capture of Vimy Ridge

Part 25
23 April
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-25-61321271
- The Capture of Vimy Ridge (cont.)
- Arras and Vimy Revisited
- South of Albert (2) (Then and Now)
- The Battle of Kut-al-Amara and The Pursuit to Aziziya

Part 26
30 April
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-26-61321845
- The Battle of Kut-al-Amara and The Pursuit to Aziziya (cont.)
- Memories XI – Some Old Soldiers Look Back
- The Mines of Messines

Part 27
7 May
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-27-62245369
- The Mines of Messines (cont.)
- 1917 in Salonica
- From Croisilles to Vaulx (Then and Now)
- Memories XII – “Picks and Shovels will be drawn”

Part 28
14 May
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-28-62555026
- “Picks and Shovels Will Be Drawn” (cont)
- The Submarine Menace, 1917
- Beyond Peronne (Then and Now)
- With Maude to Baghdad and Beyond

Part 29
21 May
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-29-62556445
- With Maude to Baghdad and Beyond (cont.)
- Art in the Great War
- From Gentelles to Beaucourt (Then and Now)
- Flying – Twenty Years Ago

Part 30
28 May
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-30-62565767
- Flying – Twenty Years Ago (cont)
- The First and Second Battles of Gaza
- Around Frechencourt (Then and Now)
- The Prologue to Passchendaele

Part 31
4 June
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-31-63502114
- The Hammering-Match of “Third Ypres”
- “Third Ypres”: The Fortnight of Success
- Amiens (Then and Now)
- “Third Ypres”: The Weeks of Horror

Part 32
11 June
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-32-63907707
- “Third Ypres”: The Weeks of Horror (cont)
- The Minor Miseries of the War
- The Fall of the Holy City
- Cambrai (Then and Now)
- Triumph of the Tanks at Cambrai

Part 33
18 June
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-33-63908345
- Triumph of the Tanks at Cambrai (cont)
- From Hargicourt to Bellicourt (Then and Now)
- A Machine-Gunner Looks Back
- The Hindenburg Line Revisited

Part 34
25 June
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-34-64432744
- The Hindenburg Line Revisited (cont)
- France in Early 1918 (inc #VickersMG photo)
- North of Guillemont (Then and Now)
- The Silent Nullahs of Gallipoli

Part 35
2 July
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-35-64746840
- The Silent Nullahs of Gallipoli (cont)
- The Second Battle of the Somme (#VickersMG photo)
- West of Lens (Then and Now)

Part 36
9 July
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-36-65046955
- The Second Battle of the Somme (cont)
- Bullets and Billets
- From Blairville to Mercatel (Then and Now)
- 1918 in Salonica

Part 37
16 July
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-37-65048669
- 1918 in Salonica (cont)
- The Battle of the Lys
- Villers-Bretonneux (Then and Now)
- Italian Interlude

Part 38
23 July
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-38-65049403
- Italian Interlude (cont)
- Army, Corps, and Divisional “Signs”
- From Souchez to Ecurie (Then and Now)
- St. George and the Dragon, April, 1918

Part 39
30 July
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-39-65892584
- St. George and the Dragon, April, 1918
- The Marne and Picardy
- East of Vimy (Then and Now)
- Mesopotamia: The Last Phase

Part 40
6 August
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-40-65892747
- Mesopotamia: The Last Phase
- Talbot House – Then and Now
- Around Roisel (Then and Now)
- The Advance to Victory

Part 41
13 August
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-41-66534728
- The Advance to Victory (cont)
- Avalanche in Palestine
- The Imperial War Museum
- The Landslide in the West

Part 42
20 August
https://www.patreon.com/posts/66535336
- The Landslide in the West (cont)
- Errata
- Maps

Supplementary Volume, Part 1
26 August.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67125212
- Books and Plays of the Great War
- The Campaign in East Africa
- From Soyecourt to Barleux (Then and Now)

Supplementary Volume, Part 2
3 September
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67125846
- The Campaign in East Africa (cont)
- Slang of the British Soldier in 1914-1918
- Around Ablaincourt (Then and Now)
- The Sappers in the Forward Areas

Supplementary Volume, Part 3
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67854041
10 September
- The Sappers in the Forward Areas (cont)
- Memories I. – “Monsieur le Clams” Looks Back
- From Ransart to Moyenneville (Then and Now)
- With the R.A.M.C. in the Forward Areas
- How the Big Guns Work

Supplementary Volume, Part 4
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67854648
17 September
- How the Big Guns Work
- St Quentin (Then and Now)
- The Victoria Cross in the Great War
- The Conquest of “German South-West”

Supplementary Volume, Part 5
https://www.patreon.com/posts/67854923
24 September.
- The Conquest of “German South-West”
- Around Elverdinghe (Then and Now)
- Memories of Gaspers, Generals and Gas
- Zeppelin Raids over Britain

Supplementary Volume, Part 6
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-6-68466548
1 October.
- Zeppelin Raids Over Britain (cont)
- North of Bapaume (Then and Now)
- Memories II – Some Old Soldiers Look Back

Supplementary Volume, Part 7
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-7-68467167
8 October.
- Some Old Soldiers Look Back (cont)
- More About The Guns
- Memories III. – The Minor Pleasures of War
- West of Bapaume (Then and Now)
- With the R.A.M.C. Behind the Lines

Supplementary Volume, Part 8
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-8-68467556
15 October.
- With the R.A.M.C. behind the lines (cont)
- How the Tanks came into being
- From Dompierre to Flaucourt (Then and Now)
- The Gothas Over Britain

Supplementary Volume, Part 9
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-9-68467910
22 October.
- The Gothas over Britain (cont)
- Memories IV. – A Welshman returns to the Lys
- North of Poperinghe (Then and Now)
- The Cameroons, 1914-16

Supplementary Volume, Part 10
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-10-68685529
28 October.
- The Cameroons, 1914-16 (cont)
- Behind the Lines with the Sappers
- On pilgrimage to the Near East
- Around Herbecourt (Then and Now)
- With the munition workers

Supplementary Volume, Part 11
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-11-68685704
2 November.
- With the munition workers (cont)
- Memories V. – Concerning Officers and N.C.Os.
- Environs of Peronne (Then and Now)
- The campaign in North Russia

Supplementary Volume, Part 12
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-12-68685890
12 November.
- The campaign in North Russia (cont)
- From Domart to Sourdon (Then and Now)
- The Y.M.C.A. and the Church Army
- With the guns again

Supplementary Volume, Part 13
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-13-68686039
26 November.
- With the guns again (cont)
- Memories VI. – Mystery ships
- The country of the Somme (Then and Now)
- The Royal Army Service Corps

Supplementary Volume, Part 14
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-14-68686204
26 November.
- The Royal Army Service Corps (cont)
- Memories VII. – A gunner revisits the Somme
- With the R.F.C. in the Great War
- Beyond Bapaume (Then and Now)
- Around Armentieres and the Ypres Salient

Supplementary Volume, Part 15
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-15-68686693
3 December.
- Around Armentieres and the Ypres Salient (cont)
- Intelligence and Spies
- From Herleville to Fay (Then and Now)

Supplementary Volume, Part 16
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-16-68687113
10 December.
- Intelligence and spies (cont)
- Memories VIII. – The Bull Ring at Etaples
- Around Corbie (Then and Now)
- In Siberia and South Russia

Supplementary Volume, Part 17
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-17-68694269
17 December.
- In Siberia and South Russia (cont)
- Humour of the War
- South Peronne (Then and Now)
- With the R.F.C. again
- The R.A.S.C. in the minor theatres

Supplementary Volume, Part 18
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-18-68702476
23 December.
- The R.A.S.C. in the minor theatres (cont)
- From Beaufort to Arvillers (Then and Now)
- Memories IX. – The Lighter Side of Kriegsgefangenschaft
- Surrender of the German Fleet

Supplementary Volume, Part 19
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-19-68903797
31 December.
- Surrender of the German Fleet (cont)
- Memories X. – Rambling Reminiscences
- Around Chaulnes (Then and Now)
- Review of an Empire in Arms
- Russia: The Baltic Provinces

Supplementary Volume, Part 20
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-20-68904469
7 January.
- Russia: The Baltic Provinces (cont)
- Around Laventie (Then and Now)
- Memories XI. – The Somme reincarnated
- The occupation of the Rhineland

Supplementary Volume, Part 21
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-21-69329547
14 January.
- The Occupation of the Rhineland (cont)
- The Field of Remembrance
- The part of the Padres
- “We Will Remember Them”

Supplementary Volume, Part 22
https://www.patreon.com/posts/twenty-years-22-69329679
21 January.
- “We Will Remember Them” (cont)
- Labour on the Western Front
- The Women’s Services
- The Old War House
- Errata
Three volumes and a total of 64 parts covering all aspects of the Great War.
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