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 Battle for Latema-Reata Nek, British East Africa, 11-12 March 1916

By early March 1916 the British forces in British East Africa (BEA - now named Kenya) had been or...

Crossing the Devastated Zone, 1917: Lessons and Consequences for the Bri...

The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, 14 March – 5 April, 1917, is something of a footnot...

Private Memorials on the Western Front

In 1999, a member of The Western Front Association, Barrie Thorpe, who was the WFA's memorial's o...

Major Willie Redmond MP

William Hoey Kearney Redmond was born on 13 April 1861 to a Catholic father and a Protestant moth...

Ernest Brooks and the photograph of The 'Forty Thieves'

With recent developments in technology, the colourisation of monochrome images from the Great War...

Video: Four veterans remember the Battle of the Somme

The documentary below was produced in 1991 and featured four veterans reminiscing about their tim...

The Kaiser's Battle by Martin Middlebrook - how accurate are the statist...

I am sure that many members of The Western Front Association were introduced to the subject of th...

Operation Michael, The Thirty Worst and an Advanced Dressing Station

March 1918 was arguably the most critical month of the First World war for the British and Common...

The Contemptible Little Army, 1914 -1918

By Alex Saunt (Major Alex Saunt MBE served with the Light Infantry and with the SAS in Libya, Bor...

Pension Record Cards and Ledgers - how they fitted in to the bigger pict...

This is the third of three article intended to show what is available at The National Archives ('...

Project ALIAS reveals the man who is listed twice

As the project to learn more about those men who served in the British Army using a false name co...

Stand To Articles on the Chinese Labour Force during the First World War

Articles Edition of Stand To ! Behind the Lines (2) Chinese Labour Corps - We...