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 regular 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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1 March 1916

Laughing Prelude to the Somme Tragedy, by Guy Chapman, O.B.E., M.C. | March 1916 | Episode 107

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20 April 1916

A Poet's Memories of Trench War, A Dirty, Wearisome Place, by Edmund Blunden | April 1916 | Episode 109

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28 April 1916

I Saw Fields of Death at Kemmel, by Lt-Col R G A Hamilton | 28 April - 2 May 1916 | Episode 112

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3 June 1916

When the Princess Pat's Fought Back to Back, by Lord Beaverbrook | 1-3 June 1916 | Episode 114

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1 July 1916

I Saw Thiepval Masked with a Wall of Corpses, by Brig-Gen F P Crozier | 1 July 1916 | Episode 121

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1 July 1916

I Filmed the Somme Advance, the Courage of a Camera Man, by Lt G H Malins | 1 July 1916 | Episode 123

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1 July 1916

I Saw Tragedy on a July Somme Dawn, by Yeoman Warder A H Cook | 1 July 1916 | Episode 124

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1 July 1916

The Cost of a Few Craters - a Frenchman at La Boisselle, by Paul Maze | 1 - 12 July 1916 | Episode 125

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1 July 1916

14 Days in No Man's Land - Ordeal on the Somme, by Pte. A. Matthews | 1-14 July 1916 | Episode 126

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7 July 1916

A Brass-Hat Blunder, by Llywellyn Wyn Griffith | 7 July 1916 | Episode 122

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