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​Our Publications
We have made a number of publications available through this website. Click the images / covers below to download. All are in PDF format and will open in another browser window or tab. We hope you enjoy them
Reveille No.4 March 2021 (34 Pages / 2.93 MB Download). The fourth edition of our magazine. Contents: How important were tanks to the British military success in the ‘Hundred Days’? by Geoff Aldridge MA / LONG BEFORE DAYBREAK By ALBERT CLAYTON (Book Review) by Stan Grosvenor MA / Mission Accomplished by Banks Brass Band 29 September 2018 by Peter Sullivan / 2715 Gunner William Stewart, RFA by William Bradshaw / From the Humblest to the Greatest: How Susannah Knight took Chorley's Great War to the World by Adam Cree
Reveille No.3 November 2020 (36 Pages / 6.33 MB Download). The third edition of our magazine. Contents: In The Beginning … (John Giles article) by Stan Grosvenor MA / John Kelly – A Leyland Lad by Doreen Fielding, Queensland, Australia / Baptism Registers on the Web by Stan Grosvenor MA /  St. Anne’s On Sea War Memorial by Charlie O'Donnell / South Ribble World War 1 Memorial by Charlie O’Donnell & Steve Barritt (South Ribble BC, retired) / The Inglis Bridge by Steve Barritt / Penwortham War Memorial & The Time Capsule by Heather Crook / John McNamara Gardens & the VC Paving Stone by Charlie O’Donnell & Steve Johnson (Manager, Surrey Infantry Museum).
Reveille No.2 July 2020 (32 Pages / 5 MB Download). The second edition of our magazine. Contents: “A really good show” – The Battle of Ramadi, 27 – 29 September 1917 by Paul Knight / Great War – Home Front – Votes for Women by Stan Grosvenor MA / A Tommy’s record and Great War myths by Stephen Roberts / Voluntary Aid & Medical Services in Preston during the Great War (Part 1) by Charlie O’Donnell
Reveille No.1 April 2020 (36 Pages / 2.8 MB Download). The first edition of our magazine. Contents: Montague Cleeve By Peter Hart / The Home Front - Lighting Up and Lighting Down by Stan Grosvenor MA FCA / William Ambrose Worthington – The story of an underage soldier By Stephen Roberts / Western Front Association: Project Alias A major scheme to locate men who served using a 'different' name / Chorley’s World War One Garden of Reflection by Stuart A. Clewlow, FRHistS - Local Historian, Chorley / A "New" War Memorial by Charlie O'Donnell / Help save Talbot House
​South Ribble in The Great War Volume 1 (82 Pages / 9.6 MB Download). The stories of 36 people from the South Ribble area during The Great War. Packed with 56 illustrations from our own collection and IWM.
South Ribble WW1 Memorial (166 Pages / 9 MB Download). The story of how the memorial was built and the 2018 review undertaken by Preston and Central Lancashire WFA. Includes full Roll of Honour.
A Comparison of the British Army's Experience on the Western and Italian Fronts: A Case Study of the 8th and 9th Battalions of The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) in the Great War (81 Pages / 2.8 MB Download). MA dissertation by our Secretary Stan Grosvenor MA FCA,
Preston & Central Lancashire WFA
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The WFA was formed in 1980 to maintain interest in the First World War (1914-1918). We work to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of all, from all sides, on all Fronts: on land, at sea, in the air and on the Home Front. The WFA is non-political and does not seek to glorify war.