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@TheWFA
The WFA promotes an interest in the people, campaigns, events and aftermath on all fronts of the #WW1. Friendly and constructive discussion is encouraged.
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  • @TheWFA
    Western Front Association
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    Aug 30
    John Hodby was escorting limbless soldiers from Roehampton to a match at Stamford Bridge when he was thrown from the bus. Alan Hawkins traced him through a rare civilian pension card – one of the millions the WFA saved from destruction in 2012. westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-ar…
  • @TheWFA
    Western Front Association
    @TheWFA
    Aug 25
    Two German POWs escaped a Japanese camp in 1915, aiming to walk home via China, Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey. Almost 5,000 miles and a year on the run later, they ended up in a POW camp again… in Skipton, Yorkshire. Prof Anne Buckley tells the story: westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-ar…
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  • @TheWFA
    Western Front Association
    @TheWFA
    Aug 12
    Andrew Russell’s New Zealand Division and John Monash’s 3rd Australian Division trained hard for Third Ypres. On 4 October 1917 they took Gravenstafel Spur. On 12 October, at Bellevue Spur, they failed. Chris Pugsley ONZM on why. youtu.be/AdexYa-L7-g
  • @TheWFA
    Western Front Association
    @TheWFA
    Aug 3
    Twenty-six headstones in Row D at Franvillers stand almost touching. All carry the same date: 1 June 1918. Two bombs from a single German aircraft caught ‘B’ Company, 28th Battalion AIF, as it marched out of the line. David Tattersfield names them all: westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-ar…
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  • @TheWFA
    Western Front Association
    @TheWFA
    Jul 27
    Captain Francis Dodgson, a kinsman of Lewis Carroll, fell near Contalmaison on 10 July 1916. The memorial his family raised on the spot went missing in 2024. It has now been recovered, restored and rededicated, 110 years on. #FirstWorldWar #Somme westernfrontassociation.com/news/2026/july…