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                                                    Essex Branch Members Night
12 Nov 2025 20:00Essex
This month will be given over to short talks / presentations by Bra...
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                                                    Beaumont Hamel - 51st (Highland) Division and Hawthorn Crater Remembrance
13 Nov 2025 10:30National Event
On the 13th November 1916, in one of the final engagements of the B...
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                                                    Laugh or Fly: The Air War on Western Front with Peter Hart
14 Nov 2025 19:00Sussex
We welcome back Author and Historian Peter Hart to our branch for t...
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                                                    From No-Man's Land to Auxiliary Hospital: Evacuating the Great War Wound...
14 Nov 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
This talk takes the audience on the journey of a wounded man from t...
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                                                    Contact- A Fresh Look At The Action At Castenau – Geoff Massey
15 Nov 2025 14:00Birmingham
Contact- A Fresh Look At The Action At Castenau – Geoff Massey...
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                                                    The 2nd Battle at Ramadi
15 Nov 2025 14:00Scotland (Tayside)
Paul Knight. Major Paul Knight PhD VR FRHistS is an Army Reserve of...
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                                                    The Battle of Messines Ridge with Colin Ellender
15 Nov 2025 14:30Ox & Bucks
Colin introduces the Battle of Messines Ridge that started at 3.10a...
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                                                    Great War Military Commanders at the Battle of Omdurman 1898 by Peter Hart
17 Nov 2025 19:45Tyneside
They weren’t always old! Great War generals were once young and the...
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                                                    'From this point the tourist should go on foot': experiencing the Somme,...
17 Nov 2025 20:00Southend on Sea
Unlike Ypres, which although devastated was close to the channel po...
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                                                    ONLINE: “If All the Officers Were First Shot”: the importance of the Fir...
17 Nov 2025 20:00National Event
The presentation will be live and online. Despite historian’s scath...
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                                                    'The Allied Intervention – Northern Russia 1918-1920' with Andy Stuart
20 Nov 2025 19:30London (East)
For much of the First World War, North Russia was the entry point f...
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                                                    'Three Gentlemen go to War' by Richard Lloyd
21 Nov 2025 19:30Worcestershire & Herefordshire
This is the story of two brothers of the Ferrers family of Baddesle...
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                                                    The Pocock Family
27 Nov 2025 20:00Thames Valley
Trevor Hancock : The Pocock Family. From Sparsholt to Bromley via T...
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                                                    The Cork War Memorial by Barry Linehan
29 Nov 2025 14:00Cork
Unveiled on St. Patrick’s Day 1925, the Great War Memorial on the...
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                                                    'Branch AGM 2025 and Members Contributions'
01 Dec 2025 19:30Lancashire (North)
This year we are continuing with the traditional format of the AGM...
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