Pension Records
As members of The Western Front Association will know, in 2012 the WFA stepped in to save from destruction over six million pension records of men who served in the Great War. Below are various articles explaining the background to these records.
Members of The Western Front Association can access these records as part of their membership package.
8 January 2020
'1917' - using the Pension Records to track down the characters in the film (if they'd been real!)
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3 October 2019
Finding Horace: A two minute search of the WFA's Pension Records provides the answer
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1 October 2019
How to use the 'Browse' function on Fold3 when researching the WFA Pension Records
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24 January 2019
Official correspondence following a death in the Great War – Private Cornelius Hayes, Cheshire Regiment
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19 October 2018
Further sets of Pension Records saved by The Western Front Association available on Ancestry
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20 February 2014