February 2020 news from The Western Front Association
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Project ALIAS: what is it and how is it going?
Nearly one hundred WFA members have so far volunteered to get involved with 'Project Alias', and the work is progress...
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Did you work at the Ministry of Pensions?
Do you know anyone who worked for the Ministry of Pensions, the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance or the DH...
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Special Edition Anniversary coasters
The Western Front Association is 40 years old this year. This is quite an achievement for an organisation run on volu...
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Trench Lines February 2020
February Trench Lines has just been sent out. This is our eNewsletter. We share one or two top stories, a choice arti...
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Project ALIAS - early results and discoveries
After launching an appeal for volunteers to work on Project ALIAS in mid-February, just over a week into the scheme i...
Read More![The latest edition of the journal of The Western Front Association Stand To! 117 is out now.](/media/9533/screenshot-2020-02-20-at-150850.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132266849364700000)
The latest edition of the journal of The Western Front Association Stand...
Members have just received their latest edition of our journal, Stand To! The contents are listed below. Members al...
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A major new project to 'find' soldiers who served in WW1
We are excited to announce a project which will massively assist present and future generations of historians searchi...
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25 February : Memorial Service for Sir Michael Howard
The Memorial Service for Sir Michael Howard 25 February The Chapel King's College London Professor of the History o...
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Geoff Longmore 1942-2019 RIP
In the 37-year history of the Wolverhampton Branch of the Western Front Association, the contribution of Geoff and C...
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Un-indexed Pension Cards.
It has recently come to light that a relatively small number of drawers of cards have not been indexed (or tagged). T...
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