National Events
All Ireland WFA Conference: The Legacies of War
05 Oct 2019 10:00Antrim and Down
The Antrim & Down, Cork and Dublin branches of the WFA are holding an all-Ireland conference on …
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Clearing the Dead 1919-39
06 Oct 2019 14:00Wiltshire
In October we welcome Peter Hodgkinson who will speak to the branch on 'Clearing the Dead 1919-39'. …
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'Football and the British Army in the Great War: Myth and Reality by Dr Iai…
07 Oct 2019 19:30Lancashire (North)
Football and the British Army in the Great War: Myth and Reality by Dr Iain Adams
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Women in the Great War - Pat Adamson
09 Oct 2019 19:30Somerset
Women in the Great War by Pat Adamson This talk will cover all aspects from the women who took on…
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Top Secret: British Boffins in WW1 by Dave Rogers
09 Oct 2019 19:45Heart of England
Then as now, the Royal Society and its Fellows are among the global scientific elite. They invent an…
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John Green, 'Willie Redmond and the Great War'.
10 Oct 2019 18:30Antrim and Down
John Green, the grand nephew of Willie Redmond, talks about his great uncle's career and death durin…
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'The Robin Hoods' a talk by Jonathan D'Hooge
11 Oct 2019 19:00Midlands (East)
The 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) i…
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The German Defeat and the Myth of the Stab in the Back: by WFA Vice-Presid…
11 Oct 2019 19:30Lancashire and Cheshire
The German collapse in the second part of 1918 came with a rapidity that no senior figure on the All…
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'An Ambulance at Arras' a talk by Alistair Hollington
12 Oct 2019 14:30Yorkshire
The Royal Army Medical Corps' field ambulances were vital for the survival of wounded soldiers, and …
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'The Wombles of the Western Front - Salvage on the Western Front' by Rob Th…
14 Oct 2019 18:30Staffs (North) & Cheshire (South)
Rob Thompson, calls himself an “accidental” military historian who prior to becoming an independent …
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"Munitions Work in the East End" with Nigel Crompton
17 Oct 2019 19:30London (East)
As well as being the Deputy Chair for Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Branch of The Western Front…
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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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Messines Ridge, a new perspective by Colin Ellender
19 Oct 2019 14:30Ox & Bucks
Colin is well known to our Branch and we look forward to him presenting a new perspective of an area…
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Talk: ‘The Fall of the House of Hapsburg – Europe’s Loss’ by Derek Gladding…
21 Oct 2019 19:15Northumberland
Talk; The Fall of the House of Hapsburg – Europe’s Loss’ by Derek Gladding
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Wenlen Peng: The Chinese Labour Corps
25 Oct 2019 19:30Devon and Cornwall
Wenlen Peng discusses the activities of the Corps in the UK and on The western Front
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