Recent and the latest news from the Western Front Association

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...
Read More
Campaign for RNAS memorial
Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC (17 July 1892 – 7 August 1917), the first pilot to land an aircraft on...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
The Historic Christmas Truce of 1914 by Capt Sir Edward Hulse, Bart
Despite the bitter fighting which had been going on for over four months, a remarkable armistice was observed in many...
Read More
Back issues of Bulletin now available to WFA members
We are delighted to be able to announce a major new 'perk' of membership of The Western Front Association. Using the...
Read More
End of 2024 TrenchMapper update
The volunteers who have diligently been working on TrenchMapper over the year have - between them - expanded the Tren...
Read More
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...
Read More
Sopwith 1½ Strutter takes flight
Sophie being filmed for STV News. (Aviation Preservation Society Scotland) First World War aviation is often oversh...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More
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...
Read More