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.

The Arras and Loos Trenches at Blackpool

One of the lesser-known legacies of the First World War is the impact it had on charity – it is e...

Betty Stevenson – ‘the Happy Warrior’

Within days of the war being declared the YMCA established recreation centres in the United Kingd...

From ceremonial duties to First Ypres and beyond: The 1st Life Guards an...

This is a brief account of one cavalry regiment's war which reached its nadir in unlikely circums...

George Horey's Parents’ Pilgrimage to the Somme 1923

Some of the most moving photographs in the 40-year archive of The Western Front Association are t...

Childhood memories of Gallipoli in the 1920s

The passion of members of the Western Front Association is such that few fail to recognise an imp...

Battlefield Clearance and a Chinese revolt

“Private Smith, one of the ordnance men in our team, was killed tampering with a 106 fuse. Chines...

The First Canadian Nurses killed by Enemy Action during the First World War

A number of Canadian nurses died on active service, largely as a result of disease. The first Can...

An Original First World War RAF Hangar and the story of 'RFC Bramham Moor'

Anyone driving along the A64 dual carriageway between York and Leeds may have noticed at a signif...

The Great War Memorials to the Bowlby Brothers

Captain Geoffrey Bowlby of the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues) was killed leading his squadron in...

Captain Thorold A. Stewart-Jones at Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915

Son of Edward and Emily Pauline Stewart-Jones. (Born 10 July 1873 in Liverpool) A barrister of...

The Grimson family and the First World War

As with many spheres of life, the arts suffered many losses as a result of the First World War as...

Tragedy and Heroism in the Davidson Family in March 1916

On 28 March 1916, a pharmacist in Montrose, Scotland, dropped dead. The man’s wife duly wrote to...