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Our Thirty-fourth Year of the WFA Remembering the First World War

Welcome to The Western Front Association: remembering the First World War of 1914-18

On 11 November 2013 all members of the WFA celebrated our thirty-third anniversary. During these 33 years, the WFA has a proud record of remembering The First World War and those of all nations who fought and those who died in the years 1914-18. As we move through o...

Stand To! No 98 September 2013

Stand To! No 98, the journal of the Western Front Association, is now being distributed to current subscribed members of the WFA.

Stand To! is published three times a year in January, May and September.

The Editor is always prepared to consider original articles for publication.

Below you will find the contents list including a link the featured article ...

WFA Calendar 2014

The WFA 2014 Calendar is now on sale and accepting pre-orders will be despatched commencing mid-October.

The calendar includes 14 high-quality, modern images of scenes from the Western Front today. All images are especially selected from the work of several superb photographers, each of whom has generously donated their work to the WFA for the produ...

The Western Front Association preserves a major Great War archive of 6.5 million records

Update March 2013: a further analysis of the records has been published, plus a manual lookup request (fee required) .

Introduction

The Western Front Association (WFA) is delighted to announce that it has secured the safe storage and preservation of a major archive of over six million Great War soldiers' pension record cards.

Some two years ago, the WFA lea...

Pension Records: a lookup adds to the Christie family research

Image: my Father, James Reid Christie, the first a head and shoulders photograph showing a medal ribbon of what looks like the 1914 Star, undated but presumably after being commissioned in September 1915. One full length, obviously displaying his Second Lieutenant's Star. Undated but post September 1915, possibly before returning to France or soon ...

Bulletin No 96 July 2013

The  Bulletin is the in-house members' magazine of the WFA. It is published three times a year in March, July and November.

As a subscribed member of the WFA, you will be sent your copy by post as soon as it is published.

The Bulletin , together with your copies of Stand To! which is also sent to you three times a year, form one of the key benefi...

Daily Mail contemporary WW1 maps for Ypres/Lille and also Arras/Somme areas - reproductions

There are two types of each map available:

Paper copy
180gsm matt paper at following sizes:
A3 - £15
A2 - £20
A1 - £25
plus £2.50 p&p for one or more copies.
Delivered in a cardboard tube by Royal Mail.

Boxed Canvas
Giclee archival print on to 330gsm cotton canvas.
Hand stretched on to a 1" depth wooden frame
Supplied with a metal hanging plate ready ...

WFA Battlefield Tours 2012-2018

WFA Tours: dates announced for 2014

• 4 - 7 July 2014: WFA Poets Tour - Poets at Ypres
• 22 - 25 August 2014: WFA Archaeology Tour
• 17 - 20 October 2014: WFA Chairman's Tour – The Aisne – Four Years of War (slight change to dates originally advertised)

Booking arrangements and the detailed itineraries will be announced later this year.

2013 Tours Status

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Do you Know? The Butte de Warlencourt

Update July 2013: a new Centenary project for the Butte .

The Butte de Warlencourt, a prehistoric burial mound on the side of the Albert to Bapaume Road, was, during the 1916 Battle of the Somme, a position of great strength for the Germans. It was fortified with barbed wire, riddled with tunnels and defended by machine guns and mortars and stood as a...