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News and updates from The Western Front Association

Hilda Leyel
3 February 2019

The Women of Westfield - picking up the pieces after the First World War

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Tutorial Image 3 Capture
18 December 2018

A Brief Guide showing how to use The WFA's Library Edition of Fold3

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5 December 2018

Announcing the launch of FREE member access to the digitised Pension Records

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Pension Cards Latest News 10 Nov
9 November 2018

PENSION RECORDS LATEST: Further Release of 1.5 million Pension records

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28 October 2018

Further sets of Pension Records saved by The Western Front Association being made available on Ancestry

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Lest We Forget Viewing Book
24 October 2018

How to contribute your First World War artefacts to the Lest We Forget Archive

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Brigadier Jim Tanner
16 October 2018

PODCAST : Hear about the capture of the Riqueval Bridge explained by a military man

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Riqueval Bridge Collage V
8 October 2018

Commemorating the attack on Riqueval Bridge : one of the greatest battles fought by the British Army

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Royal Navy Pension Records I
1 October 2018

Release of Naval and Mercantile Marine Pension Records by Ancestry

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Riqueval Bridge Crossing
4 September 2018

Commemorating the Capture of Riqueval Bridge : 29 & 30 September

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Major Octavius Darby Griffith
12 June 2018

The mystery of an unknown Major of the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment resolved

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Stand To War Art
5 June 2018

Stand To! Online

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Soutat Al 1
30 May 2018

Graves of two Unknown Soldiers re-dedicated

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22 Hermonville Military Cemetery Capture
29 May 2018

READ THE STORY: The 'Unknown Major' no more

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Sir Hew Strachan
17 April 2018

INTERVIEW: Sir Hew Strachan Patron of The Western Front Association

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Stand To 1 To 108
3 April 2018

INTERVIEW: Jon Cooksey, Editor 'Stand To!' for over 10 Years

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The Worshipful The Mayor Lt Col Bob Wyatt Mbe Td 1931 2019
30 March 2018

It is with great sadness that we mark the death of Bob Wyatt

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Hawthorn Ridge
27 March 2018

The Formation of the Hawthorn Ridge Crater Association

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Raf Crail Plane 1918
20 March 2018

Remember RAF 100

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No Parade Parade Border
13 March 2018

'No Parades' – A song for the end of the World War I

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