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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! 100 Bumper edition coming in May 2014

I wonder if, when John Giles founded the WFA on 11 November 1982, that he had planned for the 100th edition of the association's journal to coincide with the 100th anniversary year of the start of the Great War – the war which The Western Front Association seeks to remember. If he did plan it he was a genius and if not, well, like the most 'succe...

The Third WFA President's Conference - 5 July 2014

A World at War 1914-18

1914: The BEF and the German Imperial Armies

Five key speakers:

• The German armies face the BEF in 1914

- Dr Robert Foley

• The Eastern Front 1914

- Dr Peter Lieb

• Command Amidst Chaos: leadership in the BEF

- Dr Spencer Jones

• Douglas Haig as Corps Commander in 1914

- Prof Gary Sheffield

• Remembrance and False Memory: what everyone kno...

Bulletin No 98 March 2014

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 99 January 2014

Stand To! No 99, 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 ...

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

Update February 2014: a further analysis of the records has been published, plus a manual lookup request (fee required) . You can also read some of the feedback we have received from those who have used the WFA's lookup service.

Introduction

The Western Front Association (WFA) is delighted to announce that it has secured the safe storage and preservation of a...

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 ...

WFA Battlefield Tours 2012-2018

WFA Tours: dates announced for 2014

• 3 - 6 July 2014: WFA Poets Tour - Poets at Ypres
• 22 - 25 August 2014: WFA Archaeology Tour now fully booked reserve list only booking (21 Feb 2014)
• 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 itinerari...

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...