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.

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...

Sir John Edward Fowler – the Last Repatriation from The Western Front in...

By April 1915 the exhumation of bodies from the Western Front and their repatriation was banned....

Different Truths from the Same Battle

As dawn broke on the morning of 6 May 1915, the men of the 1/6th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusi...

The US 2nd Division at Blanc Mont Ridge by Major General by David T Zabecki

[This article first appeared in the October 1918 edition of Stand To! No. 113] The US 2nd Divisio...

The Loss of the HMT Transylvania 4 May 1917

The liner Transylvania was completed just before the outbreak of the First World War and was to h...

The Manchester United v Liverpool match fixing scandal of 1915

Association football had, despite the outbreak of the First World War, not been suspended by the...

The Irish Struggle for Home Rule by Dr Graham Mayhew

The Irish struggle for home rule and subsequently independence can be traced back to the Act of...

Stereoscope images from the Western Front and elsewhere

Having just published the initial batch of stereoscopic images on The Western Front Association's...

Pension Record Card Project 'Hometown' and The French Connection

While working on The Western Front Association's ‘Big Push’ project, my wife (Management) was add...

A Suitable Woman for the Job

It's rare to find any reference to the background of women who served as military nurses during t...

British Military Nurses and the Great War: a Guide to the Services

Little has been written about British military nurses during the Great War, and few primary sourc...

Blacks v. Whites 29 April 1919 Winchester, Hampshire

Blacks v. Whites Fight at Winchester Camp. A dozen men wounded. This shocking headline appeared i...