Western Front
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The principal theatre of operations for British and Dominion forces for the duration of the First World War. Though called the Western Front by French, British and Dominions it was in fact the German western front - their eastern front was in Russia. The narrow war zone of the Western Front ran continuously from the English Channel near Ostende to Belfort on the Swiss border, a distance of approximately 760 kilometres.
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- France
- Nord
- Lindenhoek
- Aire-sur-la-Lys
- Ploegsteert
- Passchendaele
- Ypres
- Poperinghe
- Dickebusch
- Beaurevoir
- Fleurbaix
- Lille
- Fromelles
- Bois-Grenier
- Armentieres
- Bailleul
- Zonnebeke
- Oosttaverne
- Nieppe
- Voormezeele
- Reninghelst
- Ronssoy
- Strazeele
- Messines
- Meteren
- Busigny
- Montbrehain
- Verdun
- Polygon Wood
- Locre
- Kemmel
- Estrees
- Dranoutre
- Menin Road
- Hill 60
- Bouchavesnes-Bergen
- Broodseinde
- Celtic Wood
- Poelcappelle
- Hill 63
- Zillebeke
- Westhoek
- Glencorse Wood
- Deulemont
- Eppe-Sauvage
- Beugnies
- Boutillerie
- Broodseinde Ridge
- Westhoek Ridge
- Wytschaete Ridge
- Ploegsteert Wood
- Passchendaele Ridge
- Abraham Heights
- Bellewaarde
- Bellewaarde Ridge
- Birr Cross Roads
- Potijze
- Hoograaf
- Bosinghe
- Messines Ridge
- Ungodly Avenue
- Hooge Crater
- Hannebeek Wood
- Western Front
- Chateau Wood
- Garter Point
- Hannebeek
- Hellfire Corner
- Hooge
- Inverness Copse
- Nonne Bosschen
- Stirling Castle
- Hyde Park Corner
- Neuve Eglise
- Red Lodge
- Uhlan Trench
- Bohain
- Bony
- St Quentin
- Houplines
- Loos
- Belgium
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- Rothwell, Fred
- Hall, Clare Henry Horace
- Walker, William Douglas Wilson
- McKeown, John Alexander Hunter
- Washington, Alfred
- Avery, Wilfred Percival
- Kerr, Eric John
- Hooks, Francis Thomas
- Langford, Edward
- Hollingsworth, Charles Ashby
- Paton, Herman Eric
- Lenton, Charles William
- Thompson, Maurice Charles
- Marshall, Thomas
- Urry, Charles Edward
- Lyons, John Maher 'Jack'
- Dougharty, Frederick George
- Arthur, George Alfred
- Arthur, Herbert John (Jack)
- Scott, Robert
- Ross, Dudley Bruce
- Gosson, Frank Edward
- Meginess, Frank
- Grant, Allan Herbert
- Mobbs, Edgar Roberts
- Vowels, Phillip Edward Michael
- Lucas, Alfred Darcy
- McGillivray, Andrew
- Rhodes, Frederick
- Downie, James
- Nix, Joseph Clarence
- O'Houlihan, Patrick
- Hunt, Gladstone Montague
- Miller, Patrick Theodore
- Sugars, Joseph Ernest
- Delbridge, William Rawlings Bennetts
- Moffatt, Roy Wallace
- Hyett, Alan Newcombe
- Wells, Geoffrey Erskine
- McIldowie, John
- Robertson, Alexander Christopher
- Reid, John
- Carrick, Peter
- Stuckey, Norman Cecil
- Gregory, Charles Clapham
- Hunter, John
- Bladwell, Reginald Robert
- Butterworth, Emmanuel Robertson
- Crocker, Charles
- Steele, Joseph Harding
- Campling, Albert Edward
- Mackenzie, John Kenneth
- Connell, Michael
- O'Donnell, John H
- Kendall, Hassall Marsden Harding
- Johnstone, Robert Millan
- Ditzell, Fred
- Scott, Cleve James
- Russell, Leslie
- Hungerford, George William
- Burney, Edward Nason
- Dyson, Frederick Arthur
- Thollar, William Henry
- Scott, Thomas
- Scanlan, Hugh McKie
- McWhae, John Wilson
- Stewart, George Pemberton
- Buckland, Godfrey John
- Tremearne, Arthur John Newman
- Drought, Charles Frederick
- Gray, Thomas Oswald
- Mather, Alan James
- Barrett, Benjamin James
- Moffitt, Harry Lowry
- Jeffries, Clarence Smith
- Hall, Arthur Charles
- Branson, Charles Henry
- Falloon, Edward John
- Main, Vivian Neville
- McKinnon, Alexander
- Jentsch, Ernest Augustus
- Kenyon, John Edward 'Darkie'
- Pflaum, Raymond Holstein
- Rae, Albert Norman
- Scott, Frank John
- Clingan, Alexander Stanley
- Whitelaw, Ivan Cecil
- Herbert, Charles Lloyd
- Lauder, Sidney James
- Philpott, Other Beaumont Jeffreys
- Walker, Douglas
- Duff, Robert
- Dawson, Frederick Lionel
- Fenwick, Robert Gladstone
- Cope, Walter Vernon
- Herket, Thomas Henry
- Bourke, John James
- Hodgman, Alan Gunn
- Fuller, Edward
- Allan, Morton McLeod
- Kellaway, Francis James
- Allchurch, Clifford
- Macleod, Shirley Mackenzie
- Forbes, Charles Valney
- Walsh, John Alphonso
- Croshaw, Oswald Mosley
- Rogers, Robert Cornelius
- Campbell, John Alexander
- Bishop, Raymond Charles
- Teitzel, Louis Walter
- Anderson, Norman Ross
- Affleck, Herbert Alexander
- Birks, Frederick
- Reynolds, Herbert Vincent
- Gar, William
- Allen, James Edward
- Allen, Josiah
- Arnold, Guy Hartley
- Barr, Hugh
- Bourke, John Joseph
- Briggs, Henry Francis
- Devlin, Errol Cappie Nepean
- Ellsworth, Norman Griffiths
- McCrae, Geoffrey Gordon
- Tubb, Frederick Harold
- Adams, William Affleck
- Gatliff, Frank Edward
- Flowers, Fred
- Donnelly, John Francis
- Fairweather, Francis Edward
- Barkas, William Augustine
- Hallahan, William Alfred
- Cracknell, Ralph Bertram Webb
- Sampson, Victor Horatio Buller
- Braithwaite, William McCarthy
- Cuckson, William Joseph
- Webb, Thomas Richard
- Tisbury, Charles Frederick
- Walsh, Leslie Gordon
- Cressy, Henry Alfred
- Leister, Leslie
- Cosgriff, Thomas Joseph
- Wailes, Joseph Patrick
- Warren, George Goulburn
- Gatcum, Leslie Harold
- Wilder-Neligan, Maurice
- Priest, Thomas Edward
- Adams, Ralph Harley
- D'Alpuget, Jacques Montague
- Allworth, Parker Roy
- Powell, Edward John
- Coulter, Leslie Jack
- Akers, Charles Alfred
- Collier, Clarence Timbrell
- Argyle, Douglas Roy
- Holmes, William
- Paten, Edward Hunt
- Carr, William Chambers Gilbert
- Reed, Norman Hamilton
- Linton, James
- Backman, Percival Stanley
- Godfrey, John Stewart
- Makin, Henry
- Moore, Frederick Leslie
- Bell, Harold George
- McGee, Lewis
- Simon, Victor George
- Hutchinson, Arthur Justin Sanford
- Evans, John Colvin
- Corney, Hubert Hume 'Hume'
- Coy, Leslie Samuel
- Nancarrow, Claude Eugene
- Alder, Robert
- Ferguson, Leopold Eric Alexis
- Morphett, Arthur Hurtle
- Young, William Lancelot
- Patterson, George Holbrook
- Pringle, Arnold
- Bazeley, Henry Saundry
- Beater, William Aitchison
- Davey, Allan Isaac
- Laing, Elmer Winfrid Drake
- Rowell, Edward Leslie Graham
- Gill, Reginald Henry
- Armstrong, Donald Goldsmith
- Arnold, Rupert John
- Ashdown, Cecil Parker
- Attwell, Arthur Edward
- Baldie, William David
- Barber, Wilfred William
- Barrow, Stanley Joseph
- Bedford, George Frederick
- Bias, John Victor
- Borrows, John
- Boulton, Lachlan Roy
- Cahill, Frederick Joseph
- Callinan, Peter
- Campbell, Douglas Gordon
- Gormlie, Thomas
- Hunter, Robert Clive
- Maguire, Virgil
- Main, Charles Teesdale
- Maning, Henry Anthony Beresford
- Mulholland, Duncan Victor
- Nicol, Donald Brown
- Pierre, Gustave
- Utting, Philip Edward
- Warner, Leslie William