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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Iwt41
14 October 1914

Lightning Glimpses in the Breaking Storm by Capt C A L Brownlow, DSO | 14 October - 11 November 1914 | Episode 41

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18 October 1914

Diary of 5 Dreadful Days when we lost Zonnebeke, by Lt Col RGA Hamilton | 18-22 October 1914 | Episode 42

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22 October 1914

Cabaret of Death! Shelled by Friend and Foe, by Capt E J Needham | 22-23 October 1914 | Episode 43

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Iwt44
31 October 1914

The War was Nearly Lost - I Helped to Smash the Prussians, by Pte HJ Polley | 31 October 1914 | Episode 44

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Iwt45
31 October 1914

French's 'Worst Half-Hour', by Captain H FitzM Stacke MC | 31 October 1914 | Episode 45

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31 October 1914

Blood Bath of London Scots, by Pte Herbert de Hamel | 31 October - 1 November 1914 | Episode 47

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1 November 1914

I Saw the Tragedy of Coronel, by J D Stephenson | 1 November 1914 | Episode 46

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Iwt48
9 November 1914

New Light on the Emden: Story of a Famous Sea Fight, by Lewis R Freeman | 9 November 1914 | Episode 48

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11 November 1914

The Stark Horror of Sanctuary Wood, by Corporal John Lucy | 11 November 1914 | Episode 49

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Iwt52
30 November 1914

I Fought at Ypres from the Sky, by Lt-Col L A Strange DSO MC DFC | November - December 1914 | Episode 52

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Iwt50
8 December 1914

Revenge! I Saw von Spee Meet his Doom, by Commander Barry Bingham | 8 December 1914 | Episode 50

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Iwt51
16 December 1914

British Pluck and Luck at the Hartlepools - The First Bombardment in 250 years | 16 December 1914 | Episode 51

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Iwt53
25 December 1914

The Historic Christmas Truce of 1914, by Capt Sir Edward Hulse Bt | 25 December 1914 | Episode 53

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Iwt54
1 January 1915

Sergeant who Went the Wrong Way, by Pte Frank Richards DCM, MM | January 1915 | Episode 54

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Iwt55
1 January 1915

My Four Years in a Frenchwoman's Cupboard, by Trooper Patrick Fowler | January 1915 | Episode 55

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Iwt56
24 January 1915

I Saw Beatty Triumph - The Blücher Sunk, by an Officer of HMS Aurora | 24 January 1915 | Episode 56

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Iwt57
4 February 1915

What Happened to Me at 'Plug Street', by Rifleman Aubrey Smith, MM | 4 February 1915 | Episode 57

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9 March 1915

Terrier's First Blood in Sodden Fields, by William Linton Andrews | 9-10 March 1915 | Episode 58

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10 March 1915

Heartbreak Battle - or the Horror of Neuve Chapelle, by Wilfred Ewart | 10 March 1915 | Episode 59

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17 March 1915

My Last Hours in the Irresistible - A Heroic Story, by L-Cpl Powell RM | 17-18 March 1915 | Episode 61

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