World War I Articles | The Western Front Association

Articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some 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.

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...

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...

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...

Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign

In August 1914 the Volunteer units of the Indian Defence Force were recruited from white and mixe...

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...