From Southern England to the Somme (21st Anniversary Meeting of the East Kent Branch)

As those who have walked the Somme Battlefield will know, it is a land of chalk, similar in many ways to the landscapes of Southern England.

It resonated with British service personnel and intertwined with pre-war British cultural concepts of chalk landscapes and the essence of English national identity. Having seen southern England in France, artists like Paul Nash and memoirists such as Sidney Rogerson, made chalk a key element of English culture and its memory of the war in the 1920s and 1930s.

Members and non-members of The Western Front Association are equally welcome. Any new visitors are guaranteed a friendly atmosphere and a warm welcome from a group of like-minded enthusiasts.