Recent and the latest news from the Western Front Association
End of 2024 TrenchMapper update
The volunteers who have diligently been working on TrenchMapper over the year have - between them - expanded the Tren...
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It’s official: Gallipoli soldier’s recovery a miracle
The Archbishop of Liverpool has formally recognised the 1923 recovery of Liverpool man John “Jack” Traynor as a mira...
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Sopwith 1½ Strutter takes flight
Sophie being filmed for STV News. (Aviation Preservation Society Scotland) First World War aviation is often oversh...
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The wreck of HMS ‘Stephen Furness’: A century-old mystery solved
Photo postcard by Gibson featuring the steamer Stephen Furness (1910-1917) After over a century of uncertainty, the...
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Railway workers’ WWI plaque finds new home at Birmingham New Street
Elizabeth Graham, station manager at Birmingham New Street and Andrew Hall, railway chaplain with Saltley memorial p...
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Coventry saves a piece of WWI history
Coventry Transport Museum's Maudslay Lorry with the three of the men who helped restore it - (from left) Peter Goult...
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Watch 'the greatest World War I film ever' before leaving Amazon Prime V...
We recently undertook an informal 'online poll' of WFA members to see which was considered the best WW1 film ever mad...
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I Was There! Chapter 9 commences 'Gallipoli Bombardment and Landing'
Our work on the 'I Was There!' series of magazines continues, with a brand new 'chapter' having been commenced as 'Pl...
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Armistice Day 2024 at the Cenotaph: Photos and video
On Monday 11 November 2024, The Western Front Association marked Armistice Day with a commemorative ceremony at the C...
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Cenotaph 2024: Live Stream of the WFA's commemorations
Whilst we would like as many members as possible to attend the Armistice Day commemoration this year at the Cenotaph...
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At the Crack of Dawn - Air-Raiding before Breakfast, by Fl-Lt Harold Ros...
The Western Front Association's widely acclaimed series of accounts extracted from 'I Was There!' continues with the...
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'Hidden' bridge at Aldershot is now a listed building
When most of us think about portable military bridges (which, we accept, is perhaps not a frequent thought that pops...
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