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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Iwt19
26 August 1914

The Unseen Killers at Le Cateau, by Pte R G Hill | 26 August 1914 | Episode 19

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Iwt20
26 August 1914

Stragglers of '14 - Lost for a Week! by Pte Frank Richards | 26-27 August 1914 | Episode 20

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Iwt22
27 August 1914

Laughing Dawn of Despair, by Frederic Coleman | 27 August 1914 | Episode 22

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Iwt23
27 August 1914

Epic Story of St Quentin: Tom Bridges Saved Two Regiments, by Lt-Col Osburn | 27 August 1914 | Episode 23

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Iwt24
27 August 1914

Toy Drum and Tin Whistle, by Lt-Gen Sir Tom Bridges | 27 August 1914 | Episode 24

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Iwt21
28 August 1914

The True Story of "The Angels of Mons", by Arthur Machen | August - September 1914 | Episode 21

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Iwt27
28 August 1914

The Ending Days: Red Reaping and Red Tape, by Capt E J Needham | 28 August - 5 September 1914 | Episode 27

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Iwt28
28 August 1914

Heligoland: A Stoker's Saga, by 'Clinker Knocker' | 28 August 1914 | Episode 28

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Iwt29
1 September 1914

The Immortal Story of 'L' Battery, an Epic of the Retreat, by Gunner Darbyshire | 1 September 1914 | Episode 29

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Iwt30
5 September 1914

Locusts of steal, from the Diary of a Casualty, by the Hon Aubrey Herbert | 5-19 September 1914 | Episode 30

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Iwt31
10 September 1914

The Day We Forced the Passage of the Marne, by Dr A A Martin | 10 September 1914 | Episode 31

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Iwt32
11 September 1914

Aerial Adventure on Aisne and Marne, by Lt Col L A Strange, DSO, MC, DFC | 11-13 September 1914 | Episode 32

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Iwt33
13 September 1914

Death Called My Comrades - Holocaust in a Wood on the Aisne by Cpl J F Lucy | 13-14 September 1914 | Episode 33

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Iwt34
14 September 1914

Devil's Orchestra - Personally Conducted on the Aisne, by Dr A A Martin | 14-15 September 1914 | Episode 34

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Iwt35
17 September 1914

German White Flag Treachery - I Shall Never Forget It! by Capt E J Needham | 17 Sept 1914 | Episode 35

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Iwt36
18 September 1914

I Saw Rheims Catherdral Burn, by G Ward Price | September 1914 | Episode 36

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Iwt37
22 September 1914

'Suicide Squadron' - One U-Boat sinks Three Cruisers, by Cmdr Austin Tyrer | 22 September 1914 | Episode 37

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Iwt38
25 September 1914

We Brought Succour to Belgium, by May Sinclair | 25 September - 13 October 1914 | Epsiode 38

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Iwt39
4 October 1914

Doom over Antwerp - I Witness a Nation's Exodus, by J M N Jeffries | 4-6 October 1914 | Episode 39

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Iwt40
4 October 1914

Antwerp Adventure - Shells and Burning Oil, by Rev. Canon H. Clapham Foster | 4-8 October 1914 | Episode 40

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