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.

Did World War One cause more tension or unity between ethnic components...

The following essay submitted to the 2023 Colin Hardy Memorial Prize was the first runner up. It...

‘To What Extent was the First World War the Main Reason for the Enfranch...

The following essay by Lizzie Kenyon-Muir of Hockerill Anglo-European College in Bishops’ Stortfo...

William Wells: A War at Sea and on Land

A friend has in recent years been researching his family history and knowing of my interest in Wo...

German submarine UC-71: a brief history

The wreck of a German mine laying submarine has recently been located and a 3D recreation of the...

Tom Thomas: a draper's assistant's war

Thomas Thomas was the oldest child of Evan Thomas, a carpenter, and his wife Ann, a shopkeeper. K...

The Profitts…and Loss: A Cornish-Australian family at War.

Porthilly Cove is a small, unspoilt inlet situated on the east side of the Camel estuary that cut...

An unusual Corps name: the Almeric Paget Massage Corps

Perhaps one of the more unusual Corps that served in WW1 is that of the Almeric Paget Massage Cor...

Just another ordinary soldier?

A CWGC stone, of Welsh slate rather than the usual Portland stone, marks the final resting place...

Finding Captain Brooke: The oldest Regimental Medical Officer to be kill...

On 27 May 1918 the Headquarters of the 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment was surrounded during a d...

Budding Bairnsfather, Blighty Magazine and Cheery Tommy Atkins by Robert...

[This article first appeared in the August 2023 issue of Stand To! No. 131]. My dissertation exam...

In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal. The Advance of 9th Battalio...

As far as some Colonels were concerned, the writing of their Battalion War Diaries was regarded a...

A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM

Like so many that have an abiding fascination with the First World War, my interest was kindled w...