World War I Articles | The Western Front Association

Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some are were first published in Stand To! or Bulletin, others have been researched and written for the web. If you would like to contribute an article please get in touch.

Lieutenant-Commander Frederick 'Sep' Kelly - Olympic Gold 1908, Performer and Compose…

Frederick 'Sep' ‘Cleg’ Kelly, the Olympic gold medal rower, pianist and officer in the Royal Naval Division who was kill…

The Battle of Mughar Ridge: One soldier's story

By the autumn of 1917, the allied forces had advanced from Egypt and were on the verge of advancing into Palestine. Two …

Letters to the Unknown Warrior

Letters from students to the Unknown Warrior. On the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abb…

Two brothers, but in different armies

It is not unusual to find brothers who were killed in the Great War. It is, however, unusual to find brothers who fought…

Died one day, buried two day later by his father

On 8 November 1915 a young officer - 2/Lt Kenneth Wilcox - was killed whilst serving in the 8th Queen's (Royal West Surr…

The loss of Royal Navy monitor 'M-15'

HMS 'M-15' was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was sunk off Gaza by German Submarine UC-38 on 11 Nov…

Billy Brewer, the Wiltshire footballer

William Arthur Brewer was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire and was the son of George and Sarah Brewer of 81, Wood Lane, Chi…

The Aristocrats' Cemetery at Zillebeke

(This article is taken from Stand To! No 90, published Dec 2010/January 2011. You can receive copies of Stand To! by bec…

The youngest Colonel?

We often think of ‘young soldiers’ in the Great War, we often think in terms of those who were killed aged 17 or younger…

The British Invasion or 'The Western Front without the Trenches'

[This article first appeared in Bulletin No. 117 Pages 21-24. Western Front Association members received both this maga…

Death on the shoreline: The foundering of HMHS Rohilla off Whitby

For the vast majority of members of the British public, the outbreak of the First World War was not something that – at …

The Camera Returns No.101 : Cambrai, 9 October 1918

By Bob Grundy and Steve Wall [This article first appeared in Stand To! Issue 119 October 2020. Members receive Stand T…