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INTERVIEW: Sir Hew Strachan Patron of The Western Front Association

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Stand To! 1 to 122 Full Contents Listing

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Stand To! 1-121 Content Stand To  1 Spring 1981 Editorial Notes (Peter T. Scott) Serving members of the Western Front Association Early Days, New Paths and Acknowledgements Inaugural Meeting: John Terraine's Address. Historian John Terraine berates those who indulge in ‘purely tragic pilgrimages to the Western Front’. The Loving Care of the…

Mr Standfast by John Buchan

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Whilst John Buchan was not a combatant in the Great War, he was a significant figure in the nascent business of propaganda. In 1917 Buchan was appointed director the newly created Dept. of Information and subsequently was director of intelligence in the fully-fledged Ministry of Information. Concomitant with undertaking these roles, Buchan wrote Mr…

The Unknown Warrior: A special magazine for members from The Western Front Association

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On the evening of 10 November 1920 a train pulled into Platform 8 of London’s Victoria Station. An honour guard and deep reverence surrounded the arrival of the Unknown Warrior, somebody’s father, somebody’s son, a nameless everyman from the Western Front. The event itself has stirred the imagination ever since. The Warrior’s burial next day at We…

Bulletin 119 March 2021

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Just out, the member magazine of The Western Front Association. Bulletin. Issue No. 119. March 2021. Front and Back Cover: The work of the Royal Army Medical Corps: First Aid in the trenches, R.A.M.C. orderlies gathering the wounded in a British trench after a successful advance. Illustration by Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) used in The Sphere, Lo…