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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...

Our Thirty-second 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 2012 all members of the WFA celebrated our thirty-second anniversary. During these thirty-two 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 enter...

Bulletin No 95 March 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...

Stand To! No 96 January 2013

Stand To! No 96, 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 the featured article from St...

WFA Battlefield Tours 2012-2018

WFA Tours announced for 2013

• Technology in the Great War tour (the role of the Royal Flying Corps, RNAS and RAF) - 12 to 15 July ( please note change of date to that originally advertised)
• Poets at Arras 5 to 8 July (now fully booked for 2013 )
• Archaeology in the Great War - 9 to 12 August (see report below on last year's tour) now booking for 2013
  
• Chairman'...

Do you Know? The Butte de Warlencourt

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 sentinel in front of the major German trenches called ...

WFA Online Shop

The WFA Online Shop is now available for you to purchase your WFA Branded goods, Trench Maps and other items.

If you wish to receive any additional information on any product, please contact Fiona McGrath .

Contribute to the WFA Website

Would you like to contribute to the WFA website?

The Editor welcomes your contributions to the WFA website for the following:

Your photographs of:

• contemporary shots of battlefields and memorials;
• then and now photographic comparisons;
• Great War artefacts and their stories;
• individuals in the Great War and their stories.

Your videos - visits to the battlefields...

Give a gift of WFA Membership

If you know someone who is interested in the Great War, why not give a year's membership of the WFA as a present? From only £26 a year (UK single rate), membership makes an ideal gift.

Some 6,000 WFA members throughout the world are involved in the many different aspects of 'Remembering' The Great War. These include our members' own research into f...