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The Western Front Association Masters Grant Scheme for 2025 is now open. The scheme provides students undertaking a r...

On 10th April 2025, after over a century, Lance Corporal John Street of the 1st Battalion, The King’s Own Royal Lanca...

The long term project to record (and animate) the 1939 publication ‘I Was There!’ continues with our band of voluntee...

As previously announced, we have been undertaking a major piece of work to scan and digitise all back-copies of the W...

The University of Chester, in collaboration with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, is offering a rare fully fun...

We’re pleased to announce the addition of a significant new resource to The Western Front Association website: a sele...

Image: Archaeology South-East On 15 January 2025, BBC Sussex reported on an archaeological excavation at Cooden Cam...

Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917), the first pilot to land an aircraft on...

The latest video from the 'I Was There!' series has just been published. In this series of videos we are 'voicing' th...

Officers Training Corps, Wadham College. (Image: Adrian Maasz) A sepia-toned photograph, purchased from a charity...

Despite the bitter fighting which had been going on for over four months, a remarkable armistice was observed in many...

We are delighted to be able to announce a major new 'perk' of membership of The Western Front Association. Using the...