Is anybody a member of the Western Front Association?

Question

I'm working on Westfalls listed on the Commonweath War Graves Commission, and I've come across a particularly unhelpful record. The CWGC site lists T Westfall, with a death date, but neither age nor birth date. So I went looking in the National Archives to see if they have records from the First World War, but apparently, they're scattered across a bunch of pay sites. One that looks promising is called Western Front Association, which says it has access to pension records, but you have to be a member to access the records. Is anybody in WikiTree a member?

Answer 1

I'm not a member of the Western Front Association, but I think with the help of a record on Ancestry it is possible to work out who the CWGC record refers to.

In "UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919" there is the following record (Ancestry doesn't have images from that record set, so it is just a transcription):

Name Thomas Westfall

Birth Place Stoke Newington, Middx.

Residence Stoke Newington, Middx.

Death Date 19 Mar 1915

Death Place France and Flanders

Enlistment Place London

Rank Pioneer

Regiment Royal Engineers

Regimental Number 26672

Type of Casualty Killed in action

Theatre of War Western European Theatre

Comments 11Th Field Coy., R.E.

Given his name and birth place from Ancestry and his mother's initials from the CWGC, I think this is him in the 1901 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X98N-GKZ.

Comments

And here's his medal card which you can download from the National Archives (you have to register to download without payment). https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D5832399