World War I Articles

We are delighted to share nearly a thousand articles on every aspect of the First World War written by experts in their field. Some were first published in the WFA's publications Stand To! or Bulletin, but the majority have been specially researched and written for the WFA's website.

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The Headstone For Guy Willock
27 October 2024

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Peter The Lamb With A Contingent Of The 11Th Battalion (Oldfrontline.Co.Uk)
24 October 2024

Private Arthur Gurr and the Battle of Boars Head

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Alice Thomson, Circa 1896 Photograph Courtesy Of The Author
11 October 2024

An Unintentional War Heroine

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The Hardest Battle The Canadian Corps’ Second Battle Of Arras
19 September 2024

The Hardest Battle: The Canadian Corps’ Second Battle of Arras 1918

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Innovation And Learning In The Russian Army, 1913 1915
5 September 2024

Innovation and Learning in the Russian Army, 1913-1915

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Ross With Warner Swasey Scope 1940S
29 August 2024

Caught in the Crossfire: Canadian Snipers and Open Warfare

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Unidentified Australian Soldiers
23 August 2024

Hades’ Henchmen: The Australian Tunnelling Companies and ‘Alphabet Company’

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Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter
22 August 2024

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO: Pioneer Battalion Commander on the Western Front

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Carmarthen Journal Report On The Deaths Of WC Lewis And Llewellyn Jones
21 August 2024

Three men of the parish

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The Three Memorials At The Entrance To Collingwood
19 August 2024

Lieutenant Harry Bolton Riley 2nd Canterbury Infantry Battalion

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Between The Wars Italian Military Planning 1913 14
6 August 2024

Between the Wars: Italian Military Planning 1913-14

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From Muriel’S Photograph Album 3
1 August 2024

Muriel the Ambulance Driver

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Walter Tull As A Newly Commissioned Subaltern (1)
1 August 2024

Walking in Walter Tull’s footsteps: The Final Days

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Anticipating The Unexpected France And Britain Go To War
25 July 2024

Anticipating the Unexpected? France and Britain go to War

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Horatio Bottomley
21 June 2024

Horatio Bottomley: media mogul, public orator and fraudster

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Dowding With His MC Ribbon
21 June 2024

He fought on five fronts: The career of Charles Child Dowding DSO + Bar MC

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Verdun The German Capture Of Fort Douaumont 25 February 1916
18 June 2024

Verdun: The German capture of Fort Douaumont 25 February 1916

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German Zeppelin LZ 77, Which Raided Eastern England In 1915 And Was Shot Down By Anti Aircraft Fire Over Revigny In France On 21 February 1916
28 May 2024

The Fear of the ‘Zepp’ and the King Stephen Case

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War Drawings By Muirhead Bone Gordon Highlanders, Officer's Mess
27 May 2024

Not exactly Winnie the Pooh: 'Mullins' An unpublished short story by AA Milne

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Falkenhayn .
23 May 2024

Erich von Falkenhayn and the question of understanding war

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