• 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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  • Can you help schools research their local First World War history?

    Can you help schools research their local First World War history?

    Volunteer as a research link for the Malcolm Doolin Award 2025 The Western Front Association runs an annual competiti...

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  • Royal Naval Division memorial to be rededicated in London

    Royal Naval Division memorial to be rededicated in London

    Image: Royal Navy The national memorial to the Royal Naval Division will be rededicated at Horse Guards Parade on T...

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  • Newly discovered letters reveal Rudyard Kipling’s search for his son

    Newly discovered letters reveal Rudyard Kipling’s search for his son

    Recently unearthed letters from 1915 have cast a fresh light on author Rudyard Kipling's desperate search for his son...

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  • A name for the fallen: how the MOD's ‘war detectives’ identified two Scottish soldiers

    A name for the fallen: how the MOD's ‘war detectives’ identified two Scottish soldiers

    Lieutenant James Grant Allan (left) and Lance Corporal Gordon McPherson. (Image: MOD) More than 110 years after the...

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  • The Western Front Association Calendar 2026 is now available

    The Western Front Association Calendar 2026 is now available

    We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Calendar from The Western Front Association is now available. As ever, thi...

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  • I Was There! Another chapter (playlist) completed: The Gallipoli Campaign is over !

    I Was There! Another chapter (playlist) completed: The Gallipoli Campaign is over !

    In the last few weeks, we've reached two milestones with the 'I Was There!' project. Episode 100 was published in ear...

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  • Artefacts from HMHS Britannic retrieved for display in Greek museum

    Artefacts from HMHS Britannic retrieved for display in Greek museum

    A new expedition has recovered objects from Titanic’s sister ship, sunk by a German mine when serving as hospital shi...

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  • New Collecting Project at Imperial War Museum: can anyone help the IWM

    New Collecting Project at Imperial War Museum: can anyone help the IWM

    As part of a drive to develop its collections to cover subjects identified as currently underrepresented, the Imperia...

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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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  • 'Kitchener's Mob: Kitchener's Army to the Somme 1914-16' by Prof Peter Doyle FGS FRHistS

    'Kitchener's Mob: Kitchener's Army to the Somme 1914-16' by Prof Peter Doyle FGS FRHistS

    30 Oct 2025 19:20 Kent (North West)

     Some of Kitchener's Mob on the Somme About the talk: For many people, Kitchener's Army is synonymous with the raisin...

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  • Riding the Rouge Zone

    Riding the Rouge Zone

    30 Oct 2025 20:00 Thames Valley

    Tom Isitt: Riding in the Zone Rouge Tom Isitt will talk about a mad bicycle race in 1919 across the battlefields of t...

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  • The Great War,  And The Birth of Modern Horror

    The Great War, And The Birth of Modern Horror

    01 Nov 2025 13:30 Yorkshire (West Riding)

    At our meeting today we welcome Mr Andy Moody, who will be talking to us about the Horrors of Modern Warfare, and all...

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  • The Murphy Family of Cork and Terryglass in the Great War by Gerard O'Meara

    The Murphy Family of Cork and Terryglass in the Great War by Gerard O'Meara

    01 Nov 2025 14:00 Cork

      Brigadier General Cyril Francis de Sales Murphy was born in Cork on 17 May 1882. A graduate of the Royal Military C...

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  • 'Conscription in Britain and the Dominions' by Paul Cobb

    'Conscription in Britain and the Dominions' by Paul Cobb

    02 Nov 2025 14:00 Wiltshire

    This month the branch will have a new talk presented. The subject is 'Conscription in Britain and the Dominions' and...

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  • 'The Mesopotamia Campaign from the Fall of Kut to the capture of Baghdad, 30 April 1916 to 11 March 1917'. - by Tony Bolton

    'The Mesopotamia Campaign from the Fall of Kut to the capture of Baghdad, 30 April 1916 to 11 March 1917'. - by Tony...

    04 Nov 2025 19:30 Chesterfield

      'The Mesopotamia Campaign from the Fall of Kut to the capture of Baghdad, 30 April 1916 to 11 March 1917'.   The c...

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  • Where the money went - The financial cost of war by Roy Larkin

    Where the money went - The financial cost of war by Roy Larkin

    05 Nov 2025 19:30 Cambridgeshire

    Where the money went - The financial cost of war by Roy Larkin. This presentation will discuss logistics, how much it...

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  • ‘Gunners definitely, but not necessarily Arsenal fans’: The Field Artillery Brigades of the Four London Territorial Force (TF) Divisions 1914-1918’ a talk by Simon Shepard

    ‘Gunners definitely, but not necessarily Arsenal fans’: The Field Artillery Brigades of the Four London Territorial F...

    06 Nov 2025 19:15 Middlesex

    As war broke out in 1914 several of the artillery bridges of the London TF Divisions were on their way to their annua...

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  • Welsh Warrior at Ypres 1914: Captain Hubert Rees

    Welsh Warrior at Ypres 1914: Captain Hubert Rees

    07 Nov 2025 19:30 Wales (South)

    Welsh Warrior at Ypres 1914: Captain Hubert Rees a talk by Peter Hart Peter Hart's Welsh Warrior at Ypres 1914: Capta...

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  • Skipton's POW Camp and its German prisoners by Anne Buckley

    Skipton's POW Camp and its German prisoners by Anne Buckley

    08 Nov 2025 14:00 Yorkshire

    This talk is based on Prof Anne Buckley's research and her translation of Kriegsgefangen in Skipton, a memoir written...

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  • ONLINE: The War Detectives: The work of the JCCC

    ONLINE: The War Detectives: The work of the JCCC

    27 Oct 2025 20:00

    The presentation will be live and online. The Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) Commemorations Team, als...

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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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  • ONLINE: Almost cruelly severe: Charles Holden's work for the Imperial War Graves Commission by Prof Mark Connelly

    ONLINE: Almost cruelly severe: Charles Holden's work for the Imperial War Graves Commission by Prof Mark Connelly

    03 Nov 2025 20:00

    The presentation will be live and online. Charles Holden was unique among the IWGC’s architects for he was the only o...

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  • Passchendaele Remembrance Ceremony and Torchlight Procession

    Passchendaele Remembrance Ceremony and Torchlight Procession

    10 Nov 2025 18:30

    On the 10th November 1917, the village of Passchendaele was taken by troops of the Canadian Corps and this marked the...

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  • ONLINE: Le Cateau - A complete re-evaluation by Phil Watson

    ONLINE: Le Cateau - A complete re-evaluation by Phil Watson

    10 Nov 2025 20:00

    The presentation will be live and online. The verdict of history is largely based on the Official History and the wor...

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  • Ypres Poppy Parade and Remembrance Ceremony

    Ypres Poppy Parade and Remembrance Ceremony

    11 Nov 2025 08:45

    The annual Remembrance ceremony in Ypres this year will commemorate the 107th Anniversary of the Armistice on Tuesday...

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  • The WFA Commemoration Event at the Cenotaph 2025

    The WFA Commemoration Event at the Cenotaph 2025

    11 Nov 2025 10:00

    Members are invited to join us at the Cenotaph on 11 November. This is a Western Front Association event, and members...

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  • Vimy Ridge - Remembrance Day Commemoration - 11th November 2025

    Vimy Ridge - Remembrance Day Commemoration - 11th November 2025

    11 Nov 2025 11:00

    Canadian students will be holding an act of remembrance at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, on Tuesday 11th Novem...

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  • Lochnagar Remembrance Ceremony - 11th November 2025

    Lochnagar Remembrance Ceremony - 11th November 2025

    11 Nov 2025 12:00

    The Friends of Lochnagar invites everyone to an Armistice Day remembrance Ceremony at Lochnagar Crater which will com...

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  • Beaumont Hamel - 51st (Highland) Division and Hawthorn Crater Remembrance

    Beaumont Hamel - 51st (Highland) Division and Hawthorn Crater Remembrance

    13 Nov 2025 10:30

    On the 13th November 1916, in one of the final engagements of the Battle of the Somme,after which the 51st (Highland)...

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Charles Dixon was killed in action on this day in 1914. Charles Dixon was born in Burnley, Lancs in 1888.   Charles originally joined the Army in early 1904 and was a reservist still living in the town (37 Old Hall Street) at the time of his re-enlistment in Preston in August 1914. Arriving in France (Le Havre) with the 1st Battalion on 22nd August...

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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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