We meet at Sutton Coldfield Town Hall, King Edward Square, Sutton Coldfield, B73 6AB on the third Saturday of every month at 2.00pm.
Branch Website: www.wfabirmingham.org.uk.
'Everyday life of Corporal Vince Schurhoff' with Dr. Jim Beach
20 Oct 2018 14:00Birmingham
Corporal Vince Schürhoff came from a Birmingham business family that was German on his father’s side…
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Birmingham Branch November 11th 2018 Commemorations
11 Nov 2018 14:00Birmingham
Birmingham Branch is holding a Commemoration to remember the Fallen on all sided and all Theatres on…
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'The Secret of Success BEF Transport & Operational Success 1918' with Rob T…
17 Nov 2018 14:00Birmingham
By 1918 two thirds of the troops were spending most of their time on labour duties, exacerbated by t…
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FINGS WOT I SAW :John Chester
19 Jan 2019 14:00Birmingham
' ‘Fings Wot Caught My Eye’ looks at a miscellany of Great War photographs. Many you have probably n…
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Richard Lloyd : “ ESCAPERS ALL – 1914 TO 1918 “
16 Feb 2019 14:00Birmingham
'Escapers All'. The stories of the Officers and Other Ranks who escaped from German captivity 1914/1…
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Gerry Barton : “ CONCIENTIOUS OBJESTORS, S.STAFFS & BLACK COUNTRY 1916 – 19…
16 Mar 2019 14:00Birmingham
The Military Service Act 1916 introduced conscription for the first time and provided an appeal proc…
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Marco Gasic : “ FOLLY & MALICE, HAPSBURG EMPIRE, THE BALKANS WW1 “
20 Apr 2019 14:00Birmingham
Marko Gasic was born in 1957 at Ilkley in Yorkshire of Serbian descent (his Serbian Royalist father …
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: Geoff Spring : “THE BEF ARTILLERY 1918 & GROUND BASED AIR DEFENCE “
18 May 2019 14:00Birmingham
BEF ARTILLERY 1918 & GROUND BASED AIR DEFENCE
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Ross Beadle : 2 THERE IS MORE TO CAMBRAI THAN TANKS “
15 Jun 2019 16:30Birmingham
The great incursion by the tanks into the German lines at Cambrai on 20th November 1917 was all but …
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Giles Penman : PANAMA & THE GREAT WAR, THE PANAMANIAN MEDAL OF SOLIDARITY
20 Jul 2019 14:00Birmingham
Giles Penman : PANAMA & THE GREAT WAR, THE PANAMANIAN MEDAL OF SOLIDARITY
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Dave Wright : “ THE GENESIS OF THE IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION “
17 Aug 2019 14:00Birmingham
Rudyard Kipling referred to the Imperial War Graves Cemeteries as the largest undertaking since the …
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Dr. Derek Clayton : “ 9TH BATTN K.O.Y.L.I. IN THE GREAT WAR “
21 Sep 2019 14:00Birmingham
The 9th (Service) Battalion of the KOYLI was born out of the patriotic rush to answer Lord Kitchener…
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Alan Wakefield : “ CRISIS AT KUT – DEC 1915 – APRIL 1916 “
19 Oct 2019 14:00Birmingham
Alan Wakefield : “ CRISIS AT KUT – DEC 1915 – APRIL 1916 “
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Allison Wheatley : KING EDWARD V1 GRAMMER SCHOOL & B.HAM IN THE FIRST WORLD…
16 Nov 2019 14:00Birmingham
On the eve of war in August 1914, the scholastic calm at King Edward's School, Birmingham was about …
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