Recent and the latest news from the Western Front Association
Report on the 2025 joint WFA-Gallipoli Association conference
The Gallipoli Association and The Western Front Association welcomed a sellout crowd in the RAF Club, Piccadilly on S...
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Latest 'I Was There!' episodes available
As the WFA's 'I Was There!' project progresses through the 1915 accounts, we have a few more episodes to share which...
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The Surrey town that fell silent three years before the king’s decree
Having recently observed Armistice Day 2025, many of us have just participated in the ritual that defines our collect...
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Dr. Tim Cook Has Passed Away
Dr. Tim Cook, one of Canada’s most distinguished military historians, passed away on 26 October 2025 at the age of...
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Photo essay: RND war memorial rededicated in London
The Royal Naval Division war memorial on Horse Guards Parade in London has been rededicated following restoration wor...
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11 November 2025: photos from the Cenotaph, Whitehall
On Armistice Day, 11 November 2025, The Western Front Association once again led the service of remembrance at the Ce...
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Arrangements for the Armistice Day Ceremony: 11 November 2025
We are pleased to say that once again The Western Front Association will lead the commemorations on 11 November at th...
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First World War soldiersʼ bottled messages found on Australian beach aft...
A chance discovery on a Western Australian beach has brought voices from the First World War back to life, as message...
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Can you help schools research their local First World War history?
Volunteer as a research link for the Malcolm Doolin Award 2025 The Western Front Association runs an annual competiti...
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Royal Naval Division memorial to be rededicated in London
Image: Royal Navy The national memorial to the Royal Naval Division will be rededicated at Horse Guards Parade on T...
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Newly discovered letters reveal Rudyard Kipling’s search for his son
Recently unearthed letters from 1915 have cast a fresh light on author Rudyard Kipling's desperate search for his son...
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A name for the fallen: how the MOD's ‘war detectives’ identified two Sco...
Lieutenant James Grant Allan (left) and Lance Corporal Gordon McPherson. (Image: MOD) More than 110 years after the...
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