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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Percy Howard Hansen VC
25 September 2011

Brigadier Percy Howard Hansen VC

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German Sturmtrupp Of RIR 259
16 September 2011

Landsknechte v Sportsmen: Operation Kirschblüte - Seicheprey, 20 April 1918

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General Natha Singh And His Sikh Officers
27 August 2011

Kisangire and Kisiju: operations north of the Rufiji River Delta, German East Africa, October and November 1916

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Lt Philip Neame VC
27 August 2011

Lt Philip Neame VC

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A Gold Coast Regiment
16 August 2011

The Fight At Rumbo, German East Africa, 18 April 1917

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Capt Scrimger Carrying Wounded Soldier
2 August 2011

Capt F A C Scrimger VC

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Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1974 054 18, Bespannte Artillerie
3 June 2011

‘In Retreat' - An Extract from a Memoir by Captain R F Petschler MC RE

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Hiring And Firing On The Western Front
7 April 2011

Hiring and Firing on the Western Front

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Sgt G O Mitchell
6 March 2011

Shrapnel and Whizzbangs - a postscript

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1St:2Nd KAR Camp In Germany's East African Bush
29 January 2011

1st/2nd King’s African Rifles at Yangwani and Schaeffer’s Farm: German East Africa, April and May 1917

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Thirty Six CWGC Headstones In The Churchyard
27 January 2011

The Aristocrats' Cemetery at Zillebeke

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Cenotaph 1920
11 November 2010

The story of London's Cenotaph and the WFA's ceremony in 2010

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Courtesy Of Robert Pollock.
1 August 2010

A Suitable Woman for the Job

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Correlli Barnett
24 April 2010

President's Address: Plans for after the Somme?

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A Mixed Group Of Territorial Force Nursing Service Nurses Matron, Sisters And Staff Nurses
7 February 2010

British Military Nurses and the Great War: a Guide to the Services

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Kar Five Officers L R Seth Smith Armstrong Reynolds Winderson And Keneally July 1916 Copyright Harry Fecitt All Rights Reserved
18 January 2010

The Mgeta River, German East Africa 19-24 September 1916

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The Calcutta Volunteer Battery (1)
2 January 2010

Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign

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Ambulance Train Team
2 January 2010

Muddling Through: BEF Ambulance Trains in 1914

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Paul Von Lettow Vorbeck
29 November 2009

November 1918 in East Africa

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Canada 1914
18 November 2009

Identifying the Dead: a Short Study of the Identification Tags of 1914-1918

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