I Was There!

These videos have been created from the original series of magazines that were published between 1938 and 1939. The original magazine was published in 51 weekly instalments and came to a conclusion just after the start of the Second World War.

Digital PDF files of the original magazines are available to members of The Western Front Association in our Searchable Magazine Archive and accompany these narrated episodes which we continue to turn out on a weekly basis. 

We encourage members to both watch the narrated episodes below and read the original magazine format in the archive. The narrations continue to be released in batches, and are 'filtered' to enable groups of videos on a similar theme to be located. Please select a topic from the 'drop down' below to find accounts both chronologically (starting with the outbreak of the war, and progressing through the various campaigns by year) and also by 'theme'.

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Iwt7
17 July 1914

My First Days at War, by Sir Roger Keyes | 17 July - 6 August 1914 | Episode 7

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Iwt5
1 August 1914

Thunder over Paris, by Sir Philip Gibbs | 1-3 August 1914 | Episode 5

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Iwt6
1 August 1914

Berlin a-Tiptoe for War, by H W Nevinson | 1-6 August 1914 | Episode 6

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Iwt3
2 August 1914

The Clock Ticks at the Admiralty, by Rt Hon Winston Churchill | 2-4 August 1914 | Episode 3

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Iwt1
4 August 1914

Asquith Speaks the Words of Fate, by Countess Margot Asquith | 4 August 1914 | Episode 1

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Iwt2
4 August 1914

When the Foreign Office Blundered, by Hon Harold Nicolson | 4 August 1914 | Episode 2

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Iwt4
4 August 1914

At the Eleventh Hour, by Michael Macdonagh | 4-8 August 1914 | Episode 4

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Iwt8
9 August 1914

Birth of a World Song, by George C Curnock | 9-18 August 1914 | Episode 8

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Iwt9
17 August 1914

My Road to Adventure, by Captain Arnold Gyde | 17-22 August 1914 | Episode 9

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Iwt10
21 August 1914

Our Troops Reach Mons, by Georges Licope | 21 August 1914 | Episode 10

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Iwt11
22 August 1914

I fired the First Shot! by Sergeant Thomas | 22 August 1914 | Episode 11

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Iwt12
23 August 1914

How I lived through the first hours at Mons, by Maj Corbett Smith | 23 August 1914 | Episode 12

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Iwt13
23 August 1914

I Walked with Fear, by Lt-Col Osburn | 23 August 1914 | Episode 13

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Iwt14
23 August 1914

Long Lines of Death, by Corporal John F Lucy | 23 August 1914 | Episode 14

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Iwt15
23 August 1914

Terror and Tribulation of those Fateful Days, by Capt A Gyde | 23-25 August 1914 | Episode 15

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Iwt25
23 August 1914

Sleep-Walkers of the Great Retreat, by Cpl B J Denore | 23 August - 5 September 1914 | Episode 25

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Iwt16
25 August 1914

How We Saved Haig's Corps at Landrecies, by Capt R Wolrige Gordon | 25 August 1914 | Epsiode 16

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Iwt17
25 August 1914

Affair of Mattresses in Landrecies, by Brig-Gen John Charteris | 25 August 1914 | Epsiode 17

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Iwt26
25 August 1914

They Were Going to Shoot Me!, by Paul Maze | 25 - 28 August 1914 | Episode 26

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Iwt18
26 August 1914

Horses Honoured in their Country's Service | August 1914 and After | Episode 18

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