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.

An analysis of the Mercantile Marine index cards

Within the millions of documents the WFA have saved was a small metal set of four drawers that -...

The Crew of Deborah : Tank D51 at Flesquieres, near Cambrai

One of the more remarkable discoveries in recent years is that of tank D51 ‘Deborah’ at Flesquièr...

An overview of the Pension System immediately after the War

The following article by Craig Suddick takes an overview of the pension system immediately after...

Finding Horace: A two minute search of the WFA's Pension Records provide...

The Pension Cards and Ledgers that were saved by The Western Front Association are a valuable res...

How to use the 'Browse' function on Fold3 when researching the WFA Pensi...

The intention behind this article is to explain how to access Pension Ledgers on the WFA's Librar...

Index of counties within regions for Pension Records

This is to is to assist members undertaking Pension Record searches using the 'browse' facility o...

19th July 1919 Peace Day in Britain

This article first appeared in Bulletin 114, the internal news and information magazine for membe...

Aftermath: Ireland

Amongst those commemorated on Lewes War Memorial is Lance-Corporal Sidney Wright 1/6th Battalion...

Following in R C Sherriff’s footsteps – the path to his own ‘Journey’s E...

Crescent Trench - British front line, 31 July 1917 8th Battalion Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) R...

Cyrus Peck, Piper Paul and the Canadian Scottish at Amiens

This article looks at one battalion's action on 8 August 1918, and is largely based on a chapter...

Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915

At the end of April 1915 the Sussex Express carried a cheering report from one of its former re...

The Truth About German Atrocities

Founded on the Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages Parliamentary Recruiting Comm...