News from The Western Front Association in 2025.
Now open: WFA 2025 Masters Grant Scheme
The Western Front Association Masters Grant Scheme for 2025 is now open. The scheme provides students undertaking a r...
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Honouring Lance Corporal John Street: A Long-Awaited Burial in France
On 10th April 2025, after over a century, Lance Corporal John Street of the 1st Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Lanca...
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I Was There! The latest edition 'Mountains of Dead in Valleys of Myrtle'
The long term project to record (and animate) the 1939 publication ‘I Was There!’ continues with our band of voluntee...
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Newly published: All back copies of Bulletin available to members online
As previously announced, we have been undertaking a major piece of work to scan and digitise all back-copies of the W...
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Fully funded PhD on War, Commemoration and International Relations – app...
The University of Chester, in collaboration with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, is offering a rare fully fun...
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New member resource: WW1 Orders of Battle (ORBATs)
We’re pleased to announce the addition of a significant new resource to The Western Front Association website: a sele...
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Archaeologists uncover World War I training camp in Bexhill
Image: Archaeology South-East On 15 January 2025, BBC Sussex reported on an archaeological excavation at Cooden Cam...
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Campaign for RNAS memorial
Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917), the first pilot to land an aircraft on...
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I Was There! Newest episode published
The latest video from the 'I Was There!' series has just been published. In this series of videos we are 'voicing' th...
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Piecing together the past: The men of Wadham College, 1915
Officers Training Corps, Wadham College. (Image: Adrian Maasz) A sepia-toned photograph, purchased from a charity...
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