Welcome to the Cork branch of the Western Front Association.
We hold meetings on the last Saturday of each month, meeting at 2.00pm
We now hold our regular meetings here:
Bishopstown Library
Wilton
Cork City
T12 RR84
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Upcoming Branch Events
Dr George Washington Crile and US Army Base Hospitals in the Great War By Will Bryant
Born in Chile, Ohio, in 1864, Dr George Washington Crile was an American surgeon who served in the Spanish-American War (1898-1899). In January 1915 he took a small group of Lakeside Hospital surgeons, nurses, and technicians to Paris, where for three months they staffed the Ambulance Americaine. During Crile’s service in Paris, several noted su...
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The Cork War Memorial by Barry Linehan
Unveiled on St. Patrick’s Day 1925, the Great War Memorial on the South Mall in Cork City had a difficult birth. The idea was originally proposed by members of the Cork Legion of Ex-Servicemen as a way to honour their comrades who fell in the Great War. However, Cork was a city that had witnessed the death of two Lord Mayors and the burning of...
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