Welcome to the London (East) branch of The Western Front Association.
Our meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
Upcoming Branch Events
'The Experience of the First World War in the Air: Personal Accounts of the Great War from the RAF Museum’s Archives' with Vernon Creek
Vernon Creek joins us again with more tales from the RAF Museum (last September he talked to us on the subject of 'Observation Balloons on the Western Front'). Just over a decade separated the world's first sustained, powered flight, made by Orville Wright on 17 December 1903, and the outbreak of the First World War. It was during the years 1914...
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'Jutland Can Be Seen from Walthamstow!?' with Chris Hunt
In this talk Chris Hunt takes a look at the events of the great naval battle of the First World War when the battle fleets of Britain and Germany clashed in the North Sea in 1916, with a particular focus on the experience of the men of Walthamstow. This new town in south-west Essex (now north-east London) had no naval tradition, and yet it provi...
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