Out now, the first Bulletin of 2023 (though dated December 2022) is richly packed with news and articles, photographs, charts and tables. Find out about various exciting projects The Western Front Association is undertaking, get news from the branches, read a few articles and book reviews too. 

UNKNOWN WARRIOR REMEMBERED Platform 8, Victoria Station 8pm 10 November 2022 WFA London Branch

Only available to members, Bulletin is our sister publication and comes out three times a year. Our journal, Stand To! is now published four times a year. Print copies are delivered to your door, or if you prefer a PDF can be sent to you as part of your 'Digital Membership'. 

Prof. Gary Sheffield, Hon. President of The Western Front Association

 

Bulletin January 2023

 

Contents

The President’s Column..................................2/3 

Remembering Correlli.......................................3 

The Cenotaph, 11/11 .....................................4/6 

Guards’ Chapel...............................................7/9 

Schools Attend Cenotaph ...........................10/13 

Unknown Warrior ........................................... 14 

Live Streaming Cenotaph................................15 

The Cenotaph Experience...........................16/18 

European Reports ......................................19/21 

Education Matters ......................................22/23 

Malcolm Doolin Award ..............................24/25 

1st Indian VC – Student Essay ...................26/28 

News from the Somme...............................28/30 

Digital/Development Reports.....................32/34 

Parade Marshal Retires ....................................35

WFA Mons & Ypres Tours .........................36/39 

Stereoscope News.......................................40/42 

WFA/NAM October Gas Conference ................43/45 

All Quiet on the Western Front: Film Reviews........................46/48 

The Searchers: Book Review ......................49/53

Ten Great War Silk Postcards ......................54/57 

Legion of Frontiersmen..............................58/62 

British Great War Dead ..............................63/65

Branch Lines/News/Trips ...........................66/73 

Branch Contacts/Meetings..........................74/80 

Silent Witnesses/Anthony Seldon...................IBC 

Western Front Way ...................................... OBC 

Rudyard Kipling, with his wife, Carrie, attends the ceremony in August 1930 at Dudd Corner Cemetery, where the name of their son, John, was commemorated on the wall of the Loos Memorial to the missing.