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.

Daring to be different to help the disabled

At the time of writing this item, Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich finds himself in the headline...

Frontline or Field ambulance? Where were Chaplains best placed to help?

On 25th April 1915 Father William Joseph Finn became the first British military chaplain to be ki...

The Centenary of the lone English oak at Gallipoli

In the Spring of 1922, as part of a unique act of commemoration, the parents of a teenager killed...

Fletching Church: Where Soldiers of the Great War Sleep

St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin is the parish church of Fletching, a charming little village i...

Swanky Syd and the Bunny Girl

Last summer [2021] a friend gave me a copy of Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn M...

Everard Wyrall (1878-1932): Military Historian

Last April [2021] I was asked to supervise a Wolverhampton University MA dissertation on 1/7th No...

TrenchMapper by The Western Front Association

Here we have a series of articles that detail aspects of The Western Front Association's 'TrenchM...

A Lonely Island War Memorial: Stroma in the Pentland Firth

Two miles north-west of John O’Groats lies the island of Stroma. The name translates from Old No...

Horses on the Western Front by Elspeth Johnstone

Horses on the Western Front by Elspeth Johnstone (This article first appeared in Gun Fire pp38-52...

Hooge in the the ‘Wipers Times’

The Wipers Times was published by soldiers fighting in the front line. It was produced by British...

The African American Experience in World War One

There are several reasons why most Americans are not interested in World War One: they came to i...

HMS Zubian: A Tale of Two Halves

On 15 February 1907 the first of the new Tribal Class destroyers, HMS Cossack, was launched and o...