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.

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 f...

Died one day, buried two days later by his father

On 8 November 1915 a young officer, 2/Lt Kenneth Theodore Dunbar Wilcox, was killed whilst servin...

The loss of Royal Navy monitor 'M-15' : 11 November 1917

HMS 'M-15' was a First World War Royal Navy M15-class monitor. She was sunk off Gaza by German Su...

Billy Brewer, the Wiltshire footballer : 13 November 1914

William Arthur Brewer was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire and was the son of George and Sarah Brewe...

The Aristocrats' Cemetery at Zillebeke

(This article is taken from Stand To! No 90, published Dec 2010/January 2011. You can receive cop...

The Youngest Colonel?

When we think of ‘young soldiers’ in the Great War, we often think in terms of those who were kil...

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...

Death on the shoreline: The foundering of HMHS Rohilla off Whitby : 30 O...

For the vast majority of members of the British public, the outbreak of the First World War was n...

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. M...

The Ministry of Pensions during and after the Great War

The Ministry of Pensions was a truly monolithic organisation, by the end of 1920 it had 19,121 st...

The 'Old Lag' VC: John William Mariner

In Gun Fire edition number 33, there is a short paragraph in the 'Notes and Queries' section deal...

Spring Forward, Fall Back. The changing of the clocks and the First Worl...

Tonight (31 October 2021), those of us in the UK will be putting our clocks back by one hour as w...