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.
'Escapers All - 1914 to 1918' with Richard Lloyd
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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'Conscientious Objectors, S.Staffs & Black Country 1916- 1918' with Gerry B…
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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'Why the Allies Won the First World War' with Professor Gary Sheffield
05 Apr 2019 19:30Birmingham
Why the Allies Won the First World War Gary Sheffield need little introduction to members of the W…
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'Folly & Malice, Habsburg Empire, The Balkans, WWI' with Marko Gasic :
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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'The BEF Artillery 1918 & Ground Based Air Defence The BEF Artillery' with …
18 May 2019 14:00Birmingham
Geoff Spring will give a tal on the BEF Artillery 1918 & Ground Based Air Defence The BEF Artill…
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'There is more to Cambrai than Tanks' with Ross Beadle
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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'Panama & The Great War. The Panamanian Medal of Solidarity' with Giles Pen…
20 Jul 2019 14:00Birmingham
Giles Penman will be giving a talk on Panama & The Great War. The Panamanian Medal of Solidarity…
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'The Genesis of the Imperial War Graves Commission' with Dave Wright
17 Aug 2019 14:00Birmingham
Rudyard Kipling referred to the Imperial War Graves Cemeteries as the largest undertaking since the …
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'9th Battn KOYLI in the Great War' with Dr. Derek Clayton
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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'Crisis at Kut, December 1915 to April 1916' with Alan Wakefield
19 Oct 2019 14:00Birmingham
Alan Wakefield will give a talk on the Crisis at Kut, December 1915 to April 1916
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'King Edward VI Grammar School and Birmingham in the First World War' with …
16 Nov 2019 14:00Birmingham
Alison Wheatley will give a talk on King Edward VI Grammar School and Birmingham in the First World …
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