This comprehensive tour covers the ground where poets of the First World War, some more famous than others, fought (and in some cases lost their lives) on the Somme between 1915 and 1918. The intention is to gain some understanding of the nature of the various conflicts in which they took part and the roles they played, and to use this context to e...
The Rationale for, and the Deployment of, Poisonous Gas on the Western Front in the Great War
Introduction
In early 1915, accounts were freely circulated in turn by the French, British and Germans that poisonous gas was being used as a weapon of war by their opponents on the Western Front. This was in clear contravention of the 1899 Hague Conv...
Jellicoe of Scapa
John Jellicoe (1859-1935) was famously described as ‘The only man who could have lost the war in an afternoon’ by Winston Churchill in his book ‘The World Crisis.’
Jellicoe, born in Hampshire to a family with naval traditions, joined the Navy ...
From Lodgepole to Stenay: First Lieutenant Dana E Coates, 11th Aero Squadron, USAS
Dana Edmond Coates was born in Lodgepole, Nebraska, in 1894, the third of ten children. He was descended from one Charles Coates, a British soldier sent to America during the Seven Years War (1756-1763 - although hostilities started two years earlier...
Arthur's Letters - An Alternative View of The Great War
As with many people, my interest in The Great War started when I discovered that both of my grandfathers took part in the conflict. My paternal grandfather was in the RAMC in Salonika, and my maternal grandfather was in the Royal Engineers in France ...
Douglas Haig and Brasenose College, Oxford
This year, the WFA 2012 AGM had as its setting the beautiful city of Oxford, with WFA members meeting in the delightful chapel at Mansfield College.
However, for those who were able to get to Oxford on the Friday evening before the meeting, there was ...
‘Lloyd George's Beer' or When It Was Illegal to Buy Your Round
Prior to the outbreak of the Great War, one of the main political issues in Britain was drink. Convictions for drunken behaviour regularly exceeded 200,000 pa (1) - significantly higher than in more recent times - and local newspapers were full of re...
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The Western Front Association (WFA) was formed with the aim of furthering interest in The Great War of 1914-1918. We also aim to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during The Great War.
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WFA Great War Video: No Task too Great: VADs in the Great War by Sue Light
Recorded at the Thirty-first Annual General Meeting of The Western Front Association, 14 April 2012, at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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