Search | The Western Front Association

Search results for Rawlinson.

Some Prominent British Generals and their Fortunes in the Great War

/world-war-i-articles/some-prominent-british-generals-and-their-fortunes-in-the-great-war/

[This article first appeared on The Western Front Association's old website and was published in September 2009]. Introduction At first sight, the neophyte amateur war historian may find the nomenclature of the war of 1914-1918 rather confusing. For many years, it was called the Great War and then, from 1939 on, when the Second World War broke…

19th July 1919 Peace Day in Britain

/world-war-i-articles/19th-july-1919-peace-day-in-britain/

This article first appeared in Bulletin 114, the internal news and information magazine for members of The Western Front Association. [Available in print or digital formats]. Comprising a military procession that wound its way for seven miles through central London, crossing and re-crossing the Thames, where warships formed a Naval Pageant, alon…

British Divisional Commanders During the Great War - First Thoughts

/world-war-i-articles/british-divisional-commanders-during-the-great-war-first-thoughts/

[This article first appeared some years ago in Gun Fire Edition 29. Although these are not dated, it is likely Gun Fire Issue 29 was published around 1995. All of these magazines are now available to WFA members' via the Member Login. Joining the Western Front Association gives you access not only to the 59 editions of Gun Fire but also to all 110+…

In Flanders Fields by Leon Wolff

/world-war-i-book-reviews/in-flanders-fields-by-leon-wolff/

In the history of the Great War, are there two names more freighted with the encumbrance of ‘mud, blood and futility’ than Ypres and Passchendaele? Yet, when reading Leon Wolff’s In Flanders Fields, notably the latter chapters which focus on what became known as the Battle of Passchendaele, it is difficult not to give way to such sentiments. Wolff…