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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24 March 1915

At the Crack of Dawn - Air-Raiding before Breakfast, by Fl-Lt Harold Rosher | 24 March 1915 | Episode 60

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10 April 1915

A Gallant Turk in Defeat in Mesopotamia, by Edgar Stern-Rubarth | 10-14 April 1915 | Episode 102

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22 April 1915

Canadian Courage and Self-Sacrifice at 2nd Ypres, by Lord Beaverbrook | 22-28 April 1915 | Episode 68

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22 April 1915

I Saw the Agony of the First Gas Attack, by Anthony R Hossack | 22 April 1915 | Episode 69

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23 April 1915

Through Death Valley with the ANZACs, by Private Fred Fox, AIF | 23-25 April 1915 | Episode 62

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23 April 1915

A Poet Encounters Tragedy, at 2nd Ypres, by Lt-Col John McCrae MD | 23-25 April 1915 | Episode 67

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25 April 1915

Dauntless in the Face of Death - landing on Gallipoli, by Major A H Mure | 25 April 1915 | Episode 63

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25 April 1915

'My Own Dark Hours' as C-in-C at Gallipoli, by General Sir Ian Hamilton | 24-25 April 1915 | Episode 64

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26 April 1915

Heroic Fiasco of 'Y' Beach on Gallipoli, by Sir Ian Hamilton | 26 April 1915 | Episode 65

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27 April 1915

When our Dead Clogged our Trenches, by 'Anzac' | 27 April 1915 | Episode 66

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30 April 1915

I Saw the Enemy's Flag Hauled Down in SW Africa, by Lt-Col H F Trew | 26 Apr - 12 May 1915 | Ep 104

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1 May 1915

Retreating on Ypres the Dead, and the 'Secret Gun', by Stanley Casson | 1-3 May 1915 | Episode 70

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1 May 1915

Bluffing the Turks in 'Mespot' - How a Force of 88 took Amara!, by Conrad Cato | May 1915 | Episode 103

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1 May 1915

I Journeyed into German West, Amidst Hideous Danger, by Lt-Col Deneys Reitz | Apr-May 1915 | Ep 105

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7 May 1915

I Went Down with the Lusitania, by Viscountess Rhondda | 7 May 1915 | Episode 71

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9 May 1915

A Gunner at Festubert with the Shell Shortage, by Major Franklin Lushington | 9 May 1915 | Episode 77

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9 May 1915

Sheep to the Slaughter - Failure at Festubert, by W Linton Andrews | 7-9 May 1915 | Episode 78

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20 May 1915

Gallipoli - Snipers' Paradise and Soldiers' Hell, by A. P. Herbert | May - June 1915 | Episode 72

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25 May 1915

I Was a Boy at Gallipoli - a Young Terrier's Story, by Pte Fred Wilson | 10-25 May 1915 | Episode 75

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30 May 1915

Moving Letters from an Anzac Dugout, by General Sir John Monash | 30 May - 27 June 1915 | Episode 73

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