The Western Front Association. Latest News
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Project Hometown helps to find Herbert Coe after 100 years
As members will be aware, a project to enhance the WFA's Pension Cards is currently underway - this is called 'Project H…
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Project Hometown: How to help find soldiers from a particular town
Many members of The Western Front Association undertake research into war memorials, or into the fatalities incurred in …
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Ian Passingham - Obituary
I think everyone who knew of him would have been shocked by the news of Ian Passingham’s death on 19 March, after a long…
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Bored with Lockdown? Here's an interesting 'diversion'
Members of The Western Front Association who are currently finding the 'lockdown' tedious may be interested in a new pro…
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Project Alias and Project Capture - how WFA members are working on the Pension Records
When Project Alias was first announced in early February, it was originally thought that it may be possible to get toget…
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Talbot House needs your help
Due to open on Thursday, 16 April, but unable to open its ambitious new permanent exhibition due to the Coronavirus Covi…
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Bulletin 116 : April 2020 out now
Bulletin arrived through member's letterboxes this morning and is going out to Digital Members right now. The followi…
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The Colin Hardy Memorial Prize for Young Historians Aged 16 – 19 2020
The Colin Hardy Memorial Prize Supported by The Western Front Association is now open for 2020. Essays and project rep…
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Rob Thompson has been awarded a Western Front Association Hero Award for his contributions to the WFA over many years.
Rob Thompson has spoken at The Western Front Association AGM and National Conferences as well as speaking at many Branch…
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Help save Talbot House
The wonderful and iconic Talbot House, a living memorial to the men who lived and served on the Western Front out of Ypr…
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March Trench Lines
March Trench Lines provided the then latest regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and notified members of that all national an…
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Are you confined to barracks with Covid 19? Here's a suggestion
Many Western Front Association members may be having to 'self isolate' at the moment, and this must be a real strain. …
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Benefits of Membership
The Western Front Association was formed in 1980 to maintain interest in the period 1914-1918, to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during the Great War. It does not seek to glorify war and is non-political. For a modest annual subscription, our members receive a wide range of benefits. In particular, belonging to the WFA provides you with the opportunity of meeting like-minded people to learn, share, explore and exchange information and knowledge in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. You will also receive our regular, high-quality publications Stand To! and Bulletin in total six times a year.
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The Western Front Association. Branch Events
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CANCELLED: Dr David Kenyon: Bletchley Park & D Day
06 Jun 2020 14:30 WessexDr David Kenyon is a British archaeologist and military historian. He was one of the military advisors on the film War H…
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Cancelled....... "They Shoot Spies - the untold story of the first female agents" by Dr Viv Newman
08 Jun 2020 18:30 Staffs (North) & Cheshire (South)In 2004, Dr Viv Newman was awarded a PhD for her thesis "Songs of Wartime Lives: Women's Poetry of the First World War" …
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CANCELLED - The actions of the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment in Mesopotamia - Nigel Atter
08 Jun 2020 19:00 Lincoln & North LincolnshireDue to the Coronavirus, all meetings have been cancelled until further notice. Please check the website for further inf…
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CANCELLED : POW camps in the South West - Colin Chapman
10 Jun 2020 19:30 SomersetPOW Camps in the South West - Colin Chapman Colin Chapman is the President of the Bristol and Avon Family History Soci…
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Postponed : Aristocrats Amongst Servicemen ~ by Andrew Thornton.
10 Jun 2020 19:45 Heart of EnglandAristocrats Amongst Servicemen : Stories of the Chums of the Old Contemptibles' Association Andrew's talk will be abou…
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CHECK DETAILS : 'Aftermath' a talk by Professor John Derry
12 Jun 2020 19:00 Midlands (East)Due to the Coronavirus, all meetings have been postponed or cancelled until further notice. Please check with us before …
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CANCELLED : 'Aerial Photography in the Great War' with Alan Wakefield
12 Jun 2020 19:15 SussexAlan Wakefield will be giving at talk on Aerial Photography in the First World War.
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Cancelled: The 46th (North Midland) Division by Prof John Bourne
13 Jun 2020 14:30 YorkshireThe 46th Division was the first Territorial formation to deploy to France. It was sorely used in 1915 and 1916 and rest…
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CHECK WITH THE BRANCH : Sir William Robertson Architect of Victory? - Talk by Ross Beadle
15 Jun 2020 20:00 Southend on SeaHaig gets all the attention, but he was only half of the double act that set British war plans from December 1915 to Feb…
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CANCELLED 'The Exploits of the SMS Emden' with John Chester
20 Jun 2020 14:00 BirminghamThe exploits of the SMS Emden In 1914 when war broke out, the German Eastern Asiatic Squadron was based in the port of…
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The Western Front Association. National Events
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In Haig's Shadow: The Letters of Brigadier-General Hugo De Pree and Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig
08 Jun 2020 20:00Hugo De Pree was Douglas Haig's nephew and close friend, and a distinguished army officer in his own right. Recently Pro…
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Remember: On This Day. 04 Jun 1915
The Western Front Association. Featured
Ancestry Pension Records
As members of The Western Front Association will know, in 2012 the WFA stepped in to save from destruction over six million pension records of men who served in the Great War. Below are various articl…
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The Latest WWI Podcast
The Western Front Association's podcasts are an eclectic mix of themed interviews with experts in their particular fields which shine a light into areas of the first world war which are sometimes over…
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World War I Book Reviews
Book Reviews by academics, amateur historians, WFA members and keen readers.
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World War I Articles
Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. All are examples of the kind of work featured in Stand To!
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