World War I Articles

We are delighted to share nearly a thousand articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some were first published in the WFA's publications Stand To! or Bulletin, but the majority have been specially researched and written for the WFA's website.

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Dardanelles To Victory..
26 April 2020

Dardanelles to Victory

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H733 Drax
22 April 2020

The loss of HMT Dane

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First Pension Card
20 April 2020

Stewart McVey: The soldier with TWO aliases

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Dadizeele New British Cemetery
20 April 2020

John Shirley - the soldier with two commemorations

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1Verdun Burning C Francois Wicart
20 April 2020

Memories of Verdun

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Soldiering With The British Salonika Force 1915 1918
14 April 2020

Soldiering with the British Salonika Force 1915-1918

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1917 (1)
8 April 2020

Truth in the Telling

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Flanders & Gallipoli The Challenges Of Mixed Terrain, 1915
3 April 2020

Flanders and Gallipoli, the challenges of mixed terrain, 1915

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Ww1 Gr Retreat Coal Salvaging
30 March 2020

Crossing the Devastated Zone, 1917: Lessons and Consequences for the British Expeditionary Force

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Capt R Heuman And Company Sgt Maj B Mills And Sgt A W Torrance
27 March 2020

Private Memorials on the Western Front

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20 Liverpool Irish Forty Thieves
25 March 2020

Ernest Brooks and the photograph of The 'Forty Thieves'

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Donald Hodge, Right, Visited The Somme For Many Years. In This Photo He Is With Fellow Veteran Mike Lally
20 March 2020

Four veterans remember the Battle of the Somme

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A7V Sturmpanzer-Kraftwagen
18 March 2020

The Kaiser’s Battle by Martin Middlebrook – how accurate are the statistics?

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Wounded In Ww1
18 March 2020

Operation Michael, The Thirty Worst and an Advanced Dressing Station

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Pension Card For John Cross
12 March 2020

Project ALIAS reveals the man who is listed twice

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The Loos Salient
12 March 2020

WW1 Engineering: the Loos Salient

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Enlistment
5 March 2020

David George Mansell and his war service as 'Evans'

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They Know Practically Nothing The AIF's Learning Between Gallipoli And The Western Front
20 February 2020

They know practically nothing: The AIF's learning between Gallipoli and the Western Front

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La Place des Armes, Guise
17 February 2020

The Story of the Iron Twelve

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Miss Iris Mary Hotblack
14 February 2020

Iris Hotblack and Alan ‘Balmy’ Morton: love letters from the Front

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