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Cavalry in the First World War was rarely used, at least in its traditional mounted role. A famous exception to this is …

In 1926, the French government raised serious concern at the number of free-standing memorials being proposed by the Imp…

There are many books, dramas and films that have brought different aspects of the Great War to the fore over the years, …

In May 2001 HRH the Duchess of Kent officially opened the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, Staffordshire, after a…

This is a story of two great French artefacts – one lost and one found. In an edition of the WFA Bulletin of October 19…

In November 1999, a WFA member called Frank Burns of Scruton, Yorkshire, was invited to address a local branch of Probus…

How many of us have paused to ponder the incongruity of our comfort break in the Grand Place at Ypres? How fine, or blur…

Photography had already established itself as a popular hobby by the time of the Great War, and ‘The Brownie’ series had…

On 22 November 1917, there occurred in Belgium the death of Private Luke Leadbeater. A single man, it would normally hav…

Those who served and died during the First World War remembered.

Thanks to the efforts of the Western Front Association, the pension records of over six million surviving soldiers were …

When asked if the sacrifice in the First World War was shared equally between the highest in society and the lowliest, i…