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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Mountains of Dead in Valleys of Myrtle, by the Hon Aubrey Herbert | May - June 1915 | Episode 74
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I was in London's First Air Raid, by Sylvia Pankhurst | 31 May 1915 | Episode 83
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I was London's First Zeppelin Raider, by Major Erich Linnarz | 31 May 1915 | Episode 84
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With the H.A.C. at Hooge - through Terror-stricken Fields, by H S Clapham | 16 June 1915 | Episode 79
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Men into Beasts - The Horrors of Anzac, by Digger Craven | 28 June 1915 | Episode 76
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My Escape from an English Prison Camp, by Gunther Plüschow | 4-12 July 1915 | Episode 80
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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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Gallipoli - Dark Night of the Suvla Landing, by Compton Mackenzie | 6-7 August 1915 | Episode 94
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Outwitted by the British Secret Service, by Captain von Rintelen | 13-17 August 1915 | Episode 82
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How I Won My VC on Hill 70, by Trooper Frederick Potts VC | 21 August 1915 | Episode 95
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I Had to Shoot my Friends - Carnage on a Gallipoli Farm, by Digger Craven | 9-30 August 1915 | Episode 96
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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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Night Fire & Scorching Sun in Gallipoli, by John Cropton | August - September 1915 | Episode 98
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Prelude to Loos: from Café to Ditch of Death, by Sir Philip Gibbs KBE | 25 September 1915 | Episode 86
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With the Guns at Loos, by F.O.O. (Major C. J. C. Street) | 24-25 September 1915 | Episode 87
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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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An Author Lives Great Tragedy - a Ghastly Memory of Loos, by Robert Graves | 25 September 1915 | Episode 91
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Loos - The Hopeless Maze of Battle, in Clay and Blood, by John Easton | 27 September 1915 | Episode 89
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Loos - The Enemy Attacks - We Were in a Tight Corner, by John Easton | 27 September 1915 | Episode 90
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