Welcome to the Wales (South) branch of The Western Front Association.
Meetings are held every first Friday of the month between 7.30pm - 9.30pm unless stated otherwise
Venue: Fairwater Conservative Club, 61 Ely Rd, Cardiff CF5 2BY
The venue has ample free, illuminated car parking and is on the ground floor with good access for attendees of all abilities. There is a bar serving hot & cold drinks and food. Our Christmas meeting includes a social event with a small buffet, after the talk.
Members of the Western Front Association and non-members are equally welcome, and we encourage their attendance. It is suggested that attendees might wish to give a small donation towards the cost of the venue, the speaker’s expenses, and the cost of live streaming via Zoom. Those unable to attend in person who join in via Zoom and may wish to help the branch with a donation, can now do so safely via
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Our forthcoming branch meetings have the following talks planned:
| 07-Jun | The War Underground on the Western Front - Pontypridd miners in the RE Tunneling companies | Keith Jones |
| 05-Jul | Fire & Ice in the High Alps: The Italian Front & Britain's Role in the Great War in Italy (ZOOM) | Robert Fleming |
| 02-Aug | A Glorified Trench Raid or Trench warfare's Year Zero … ? The Battle of Neuve Chapelle March 1915 | Ross Beadle |
| 06-Sep | British classical music composers who served in the Great War | Viv John |
| 04-Oct | Verdun: Recovering the Fallen (ZOOM) | Christina Holstein |
| 01-Nov | Rupert Brooke and the 'Glitterati' at Gallipoli | Peter Hart |
| 06-Dec | Military Justice during the Great War | Prof. Lois Bibbing |
Upcoming Branch Events
The War Underground on the Western Front - Pontypridd miners in the RE Tunnelling companies by Keith Jones
Undermining the positions of one’s enemy is one of the most ancient of martial activities. For almost 3000 years before 1914, and even after the invention of gunpowder and the inexorable development of artillery, it was a prime siege-breaking technique; indeed tunnelling is still employed across the world to the present day. The Great War, however,…
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Fire & Ice in the High Alps: The Italian Front & Britain's Role in the Great War in Italy (ZOOM) by Robert Fleming
Robert is an Australian historian, writer and public speaker with over twenty years' experience in museums. As an archaeologist, he primarily worked on fortifications, early military buildings, and colonial mansions in Australia and has been a guest archaeologist on Time Team. He was at the Imperial War Museum for two years, and the National Army M…
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A Glorified Trench Raid or Trench warfare's Year Zero … ? The Battle of Neuve Chapelle March 1915 by Ross Beadle
'A Glorified Trench Raid' or Trench warfare's Year Zero … ? The Battle of Neuve Chapelle March 1915' The first corps level trench to trench attack made by the BEF in the Great War. It was a little disparaged by the French at the time and was central to Alan Clarke's charge that the BEF's soldiers were 'Lions led by Donkeys'. Yet all the key compone…
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