German Memorials on the Western Front

German Memorials on the Western Front

One of the consequences of the German occupation of France during the First World War was that th...

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The loss of HMT Dane

The loss of HMT Dane

Like most youngsters growing up in the 60s and 70s The Great War was a long time ago, and althoug...

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Oddities in the Pension Records

Oddities in the Pension Records

Within the Pension Records that The Western Front Association have saved are hundreds of thousand...

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Stewart McVey: The soldier with TWO aliases

Stewart McVey: The soldier with TWO aliases

One of the many names listed on Le Touret Memorial to the Missing is that of Corporal Stewart McV...

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Memories of Verdun by Francois Wikart

Memories of Verdun by Francois Wikart

The following article is based on the recollections of General Caloni and recollections of the au...

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John Shirley - the soldier with two commemorations

John Shirley - the soldier with two commemorations

The 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles was a regular battalion, which for most of the war was part...

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Talbot House opens ambitious new permanent exhibition

Talbot House opens ambitious new permanent exhibition

In 2004, Harry Patch, ‘the Last Fighting Tommy’, opened the fully restored Concert Hall of Talbo...

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Truth in the Telling  by Alexander Falbo-Wild, Chairman East Coast USA Branch

Truth in the Telling by Alexander Falbo-Wild, Chairman East Coast USA B...

[This article first appeared in the April 2020 edition of Bulletin, No. 116.] There is much to...

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November 1918 in East Africa

November 1918 in East Africa

At the end of September 1918, the German commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck had made a clean break...

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Fighting For The Rufiji River Crossing: The British 1st East African Brigade in action German East Africa, 1 to 19 January 1917

Fighting For The Rufiji River Crossing: The British 1st East African Bri...

In September 1916 the British theatre commander in East Africa, General J C Smuts, had been force...

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Out on a Limb - the road through Tunduru: German East Africa, May to November 1917

Out on a Limb - the road through Tunduru: German East Africa, May to Nov...

In May 1917 the 1st Battalion of the Uganda-based 4th Regiment of the King's African Rifles (1/4...

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The King's African Rifles at Kibata, German East Africa December 1916 to January 1917

The King's African Rifles at Kibata, German East Africa December 1916 to...

When the Great War commenced in August 1914 "A", "B", "C" and "E" Companies of the 1st (Nyasaland...

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