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
British classical music composers who served in the Great War by Viv John
Viv joined the WFA in late 1986. Over the years he’s been secretary, vice chairman and chairman and given talks to the S. Wales branch and others. The Great War was a source or much poetry and prose literature but very few consider music beyond ‘It’s a long way to Tipperary’ and the like. As someone long interested in classical music Viv began t…
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Verdun: Recovering the Fallen (ZOOM) by Christina Holstein
Formerly a long-time resident of Luxembourg, Christina knows the north-eastern part of the Western Front very well, often conducting battlefield tours there. She has also written six notable books (see "Notes" below) on the Battle of Verdun, and has acted as a consultant and historian to numerous BBC documentaries. 'Verdun: Recovering the Fallen' …
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Rupert Brooke and the 'Glitterati' at Gallipoli by Peter Hart
Regarded as a lively, well informed, and amusing speaker, Peter Hart is regular and popular branch speaker. He's a military historian specialising in the Great War and was the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum from 1981 until his retirement. Peter is the author of the magisterial Gallipoli (OUP 2013) as well as many other books on the Great…
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