Western Front Association

@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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Western Front Association @TheWFA 13h

In pictures: Armistice Day 2026 at the Cenotaph.
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The WFA’s annual Service of Remembrance, photographed by Simon Williams 📷

An RAF sentinel stands with head bowed and rifle reversed beside the Cenotaph, its base covered in poppy wreaths.

WFA President Dr Spencer Jones (right) and Chairman Richard Hughes carry the Association's wreaths to the Cenotaph.

An RAF trumpeter sounds the Last Post while standard bearers lower their standards.

Pipers and drummers of the London Scottish in hodden grey kilts march along Whitehall with the Cenotaph behind them.

Western Front Association @TheWFA 4d

Tomorrow we gather at Lutyens’s Cenotaph. One of his final works is far less known: an oak Roll of Honour in Norwich City Hall with 3,544 names. He went over its £500 budget, then waived his fee and paid the difference himself.
Rob Kirk tells its story:
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Western Front Association @TheWFA 4d

On Wednesday, 11 November, The Western Front Association will once again lead the Armistice Day service of remembrance at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, as we have every year since 1994.
WFA members are invited to join us.
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#ArmisticeDay #LestWeForget

Western Front Association @TheWFA Nov 1

‘We were nobody’s children; we had no set role; the Navy distrusted us; the Army ignored us.’
Gilbert Smylie on the airmen at Gallipoli – one of seven RAF Staff College papers in a new article for the WFA website.
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Western Front Association @TheWFA Oct 29

Same ground, 26 years apart. Prof Gary Sheffield compares the BEF’s retreat from Mons in 1914 with the road to Dunkirk in 1940 – what the two campaigns shared, and why 1940 was the harder fight.
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