Recent and the latest news from the Western Front Association
Applicants wanted for the role of Treasurer for 2020/2021
We have a vacancy for an Honorary Treasurer and applications from qualified candidates are urgently invited. Candidates …
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Jon Cooksey
It is with great sadness that we have to report the sudden passing of the editor of 'Stand To!', Jon Cooksey. Our condo…
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Help Request to tell the story of the Latin American volunteers in the Grea…
Tomas Pizarro-Escuti, a 4th-year undergraduate student at the University of Aberdeen is undertaking research for his dis…
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The latest release of Pension Records is now available
Members of The Western Front Association will be delighted to learn that another two sets of Pension Record Cards have n…
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Project Hometown helps to find Herbert Coe after 100 years
As members will be aware, a project to enhance the WFA's Pension Cards is currently underway - this is called 'Project H…
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Project Hometown: How to help find soldiers from a particular town
Many members of The Western Front Association undertake research into war memorials, or into the fatalities incurred in …
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Ian Passingham - Obituary
I think everyone who knew of him would have been shocked by the news of Ian Passingham’s death on 19 March, after a long…
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Bored with Lockdown? Here's an interesting 'diversion'
Members of The Western Front Association who are currently finding the 'lockdown' tedious may be interested in a new pro…
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Project Alias and Project Capture - how WFA members are working on the Pens…
When Project Alias was first announced in early February, it was originally thought that it may be possible to get toget…
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Talbot House needs your help
Due to open on Thursday, 16 April, but unable to open its ambitious new permanent exhibition due to the Coronavirus Covi…
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Bulletin 116 : April 2020 out now
Bulletin arrived through member's letterboxes this morning and is going out to Digital Members right now. The followi…
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Rob Thompson has been awarded a Western Front Association Hero Award for hi…
Rob Thompson has spoken at The Western Front Association AGM and National Conferences as well as speaking at many Branch…
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