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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Iwt74
31 May 1915

Mountains of Dead in Valleys of Myrtle, by the Hon Aubrey Herbert | May - June 1915 | Episode 74

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Iwt83
31 May 1915

I was in London's First Air Raid, by Sylvia Pankhurst | 31 May 1915 | Episode 83

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31 May 1915

I was London's First Zeppelin Raider, by Major Erich Linnarz | 31 May 1915 | Episode 84

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Iwt79
16 June 1915

With the H.A.C. at Hooge - through Terror-stricken Fields, by H S Clapham | 16 June 1915 | Episode 79

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Iwt76
28 June 1915

Men into Beasts - The Horrors of Anzac, by Digger Craven | 28 June 1915 | Episode 76

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4 July 1915

My Escape from an English Prison Camp, by Gunther Plüschow | 4-12 July 1915 | Episode 80

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Iwt81
30 July 1915

First Use of Liquid Fire - I Saw Men Consumed by It, by Pte. A. P. Hatton | 30 July 1915 | Episode 81

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Iwt94
6 August 1915

Gallipoli - Dark Night of the Suvla Landing, by Compton Mackenzie | 6-7 August 1915 | Episode 94

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13 August 1915

Outwitted by the British Secret Service, by Captain von Rintelen | 13-17 August 1915 | Episode 82

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21 August 1915

How I Won My VC on Hill 70, by Trooper Frederick Potts VC | 21 August 1915 | Episode 95

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30 August 1915

I Had to Shoot my Friends - Carnage on a Gallipoli Farm, by Digger Craven | 9-30 August 1915 | Episode 96

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Iwt97
5 September 1915

12 Hours Trapped in a Submarine - I Blew Up Our E7, by Ch Petty Off Bob Sims | 5 September 1915 | Episode 97

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6 September 1915

Night Fire & Scorching Sun in Gallipoli, by John Cropton | August - September 1915 | Episode 98

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25 September 1915

Prelude to Loos: from Café to Ditch of Death, by Sir Philip Gibbs KBE | 25 September 1915 | Episode 86

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Iwt87
25 September 1915

With the Guns at Loos, by F.O.O. (Major C. J. C. Street) | 24-25 September 1915 | Episode 87

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Iwt88
25 September 1915

The Horror of Loos - I saw a football in No Man's Land, by Patrick Macgill | 25 September 1915 | Episode 88

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Iwt91
25 September 1915

An Author Lives Great Tragedy - a Ghastly Memory of Loos, by Robert Graves | 25 September 1915 | Episode 91

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Iwt89
27 September 1915

Loos - The Hopeless Maze of Battle, in Clay and Blood, by John Easton | 27 September 1915 | Episode 89

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27 September 1915

Loos - The Enemy Attacks - We Were in a Tight Corner, by John Easton | 27 September 1915 | Episode 90

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5 October 1915

My Sad Farewell to Gallipoli, by General Sir Ian Hamilton | 5-17 October 1915 | Episode 99

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