Welcome to the Worcestershire & Herefordshire branch of The Western Front Association.
We currently meet on the 3rd Friday of the month (with the exception of December) at 19.30 until approx 22.00 at:
St. Peter’s Village Hall
St. Peter’s Drive
Worcester
WR5 3TA
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Parking is available in the Tesco Supermarket WR5 3TA.
After parking, walk up the right hand side of the store and bear left. The hall is at the end of the row.
WFA members and Non members are all welcome.
Upcoming Branch Events
‘Motorcycle Despatch Riders In 1914' by Nick Shelley
In this talk Nick describes the motorcyclists' contribution to the 1914 campaign, using their own words and their own previously unpublished photographs. Some accounts were contemporaneous, others written soon after the war. The talk is illustrated with many unpublished images from various sources. Members and Non-members of The Western Front...
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'Three Gentlemen go to War' by Richard Lloyd
This is the story of two brothers of the Ferrers family of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, and of Eric Walker whose family later owned the house. Francis Ferrers began as a lieutenant with 253 Tunnelling Company but was killed fighting as a Lance Corporal with 6th Lancashire Fusiliers in 1918. Cecil Ferrers remained in Malaya and following th...
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'A Sailor in the Great War' by Pete MacCormac
In this talk, Pete tells the story of his wife's great uncle, Frederick Thomas Yapp who, though born in Worcester in 1889, spent much of his early life in London. Things were tough for the Yapp family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As for many young men in such circumstances, the military was an escape from an austere existence s...
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