• Pension Records

    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 articles...

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  • TrenchMapper (Public)

    TrenchMapper

    This portal enables users to study thousands of trench maps from the First World War. To benefit from the full capabilities of this, members can use the full version in the members area of the website...

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  • The Imperial Western Front: Free Online Course

    The Imperial Western Front: Free Online Course

    The Western Front Association in partnership with the University of Kent has produced a four-week course focused on the imperial dimension to the war on the Western Front.

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  • Stereoscope

    Stereoscope

    Stereoscopic, or 3D, photography was very popular at the time of the Great War. Use the Filter function to select your area of interest from the thousands of images from the conflict that are available here...

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  • From Lemnos to the Western Front: A scholar’s perspective on Canadian nurses in the Great War

    From Lemnos to the Western Front: A scholar’s perspective on Canadian nurses in the Great War

    Mark your calendars for Saturday, 1 November 2025, when The Western Front Association and the Gallipoli Association j...

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  • After 108 years, soldiers of the Essex and Bedfordshire Regiments laid to rest

    After 108 years, soldiers of the Essex and Bedfordshire Regiments laid to rest

    This morning, Wednesday 16 July 2025, at the Loos British Cemetery Extension, a solemn burial service was held for so...

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  • Menin Gate restoration complete

    Menin Gate restoration complete

    The comprehensive two-year restoration of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium, has been complete...

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  • Oxford College receives approval to add foreign soldiers to WWI memorial

    Oxford College receives approval to add foreign soldiers to WWI memorial

    The BBC reports that The Queen's College, Oxford, has received permission from Oxford City Council to add five additi...

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  • HMS Vanguard: Ship's bell recovered over a century after sinking

    HMS Vanguard: Ship's bell recovered over a century after sinking

    A recent report by the BBC provided the news of the bell from WW1 Battleship HMS Vanguard has been brought to the sur...

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  • Young Historians Shine in The Western Front Association’s Malcolm Doolin Award for Local History Research 2025

    Young Historians Shine in The Western Front Association’s Malcolm Doolin Award for Local History Research 2025

    The Western Front Association is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Malcolm Doolin Award for Local History Res...

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  • I Was There! The Horror of Loos - I saw a football in No Man's Land, by Patrick Macgill

    I Was There! The Horror of Loos - I saw a football in No Man's Land, by Patrick Macgill

    The Western Front Association's 'I Was There!' project continues with the latest episode recently published This vide...

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  • Burial and re-dedication ceremonies in July

    Burial and re-dedication ceremonies in July

    The JCCC (otherwise known as 'The War Detectives') have announced the following ceremonies will be taking place in Ju...

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Benefits of Membership

The Western Front Association was formed in 1980 with the purpose of furthering interest in the history of the First World War of 1914-1918. We also aim to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all those who served, on all sides, across all theatres and fronts, on land, at sea and in the air and at home, during the Great War. The Western Front Association is non-political and does not seek to glorify war. For a modest annual subscription, our members receive a wide range of benefits including our regular, high-quality publications Stand To! and Bulletin six times a year, access to the Stand To! archive, Gun Fire Archive, Military Factsheets and Pension Records database. In particular, belonging to The Western Front Association provides you with the opportunity of meeting like-minded people to learn, share, explore and exchange information and knowledge of the First World War in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

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  • The U - Boat Campaign 1914 – 1918 – Dr Graham Kemp

    The U - Boat Campaign 1914 – 1918 – Dr Graham Kemp

    19 Jul 2025 14:00 Birmingham

    The U - Boat Campaign 1914 – 1918 – Dr Graham Kemp The Inside Story' This final talk in series on commerce raiders, s...

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  • Alan Wakefield presents 'Twisting the Dragons Tail - the Zeebrugge Raid 22/23 April 1918

    Alan Wakefield presents 'Twisting the Dragons Tail - the Zeebrugge Raid 22/23 April 1918

    19 Jul 2025 14:40 Ox & Bucks

    Alan discusses an operation that did not achieve its aims fully, but provided the Allies with both a moral boast and...

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  • Robert Keable, utterly immoral WW1 chaplain? by Simon Keable-Elliott

    Robert Keable, utterly immoral WW1 chaplain? by Simon Keable-Elliott

    21 Jul 2025 19:45 Tyneside

    The story of Rev Robert Keable’s time in France as a chaplain to the appallingly treated men of the South African Nat...

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  • Royal Naval Response to U Boat Campaign

    Royal Naval Response to U Boat Campaign

    01 Aug 2025 19:30 Wales (South)

    Royal Naval Response to U Boat Campaign This ZOOM talk by Graham Kemp covers RN response to U Boats, from convoys, Q...

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  • Branch Away Day  Fusiliers Museum, Bury, Lancashire

    Branch Away Day Fusiliers Museum, Bury, Lancashire

    02 Aug 2025 12:00 Wales (North)

    The Branch Away day gives members & non members a chance to visit a museum or site with a Great War connection. D...

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  • 'Forward into this Valley of the Shadow of Death by Sean Corkerry'

    'Forward into this Valley of the Shadow of Death by Sean Corkerry'

    04 Aug 2025 19:30 Lancashire (North)

    On the 111th anniversary of Britain's entry into the Great War, Lancaster Historian Shaun Corkerry examines the slide...

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  • Follow a Supply Column through mobilisation - by Roy Larkin

    Follow a Supply Column through mobilisation - by Roy Larkin

    05 Aug 2025 19:30 Chesterfield

      Follow a Supply Column and others through mobilisation andthe total chaos of the opening weeks of the Great War wit...

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  • London's Buses That Stayed at Home, Roy Larkin

    London's Buses That Stayed at Home, Roy Larkin

    08 Aug 2025 19:30 Midlands (East)

    A welcome return for Roy who will be giving his new talk on the varied work of the London General Omnibus Company in...

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  • “What Tommy did next” Rehabilitation for limbless men during and after the Great War

    “What Tommy did next” Rehabilitation for limbless men during and after the Great War

    09 Aug 2025 14:30 Wolverhampton

    About this talk: Over one million British men were left disabled by disease or injury as a result of the First World...

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  • South African Native Labour Corps by Simon Keable-Elliott

    South African Native Labour Corps by Simon Keable-Elliott

    11 Aug 2025 19:00 Staffs (North) & Cheshire (South)

                                            A talk on the South African Native Labour Corps.                 About the Ta...

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  • Houston Wallace and Nine Brave Men Memorial Re-dedications

    Houston Wallace and Nine Brave Men Memorial Re-dedications

    22 Jul 2025 11:00

    On 22nd July 2025, a re-dedication ceremony will be held in Bazentin, in the Somme region of France, to commemorate t...

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  • WFA Battlefield Tour: Cambrai 1917 and 1918

    WFA Battlefield Tour: Cambrai 1917 and 1918

    19 Sep 2025 11:00

    The Western Front Association is delighted to offer a Battlefield Tour which will focus on the battles at and around...

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  • Join us in Dundee in September for the Scottish National Conference 2025

    Join us in Dundee in September for the Scottish National Conference 2025

    20 Sep 2025 10:00

    Join us for a day of engaging presentations by renowned historians and experts in First World War history at Discover...

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  • Courage without Glory – Gallipoli and the Western Front in 1915

    Courage without Glory – Gallipoli and the Western Front in 1915

    01 Nov 2025 10:00

    A joint conference between the Gallipoli Association and The Western Front Association. Speakers: Sir Hew Strachan:...

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John Beresford Bryson was killed in action on this day in 1916. John was from New South Wales, Australia, the son of James and Emily Bryson, of Huskisson. A mechanical dentist before the war, he enlisted on 15 August 1915 and he embarked from Australia on 2 November 1915. He was promoted to Corporal on 8 May 1916 and disembarked in Marseilles on 26 June....

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19 July 1916 : Corporal John Beresford Bryson
Pension Records

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 art...

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The Latest WWI Podcast

The Latest WWI Podcast

The Western Front Association's podcasts 'Mentioned in Dispatches' with Dr Tom Thorpe are an eclectic mix of relaxed discussions with all kinds of contributors: experts in their particular fields,...

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World War I Articles

World War I Articles

Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you wo...

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‘I Was There!’ – The Great War in Their Own Words

‘I Was There!’ – The Great War in Their Own Words

The Western Front Association is pleased to present audio narrations of personal accounts from I Was There! magazine, bringing to life the voices of those who experienced the Great War first-hand...

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