Please note that there is no meeting in January 2025.
The February meeting will be a daytime meeting; details of time and venue to be confirmed.
Welcome to the Lancashire (North) branch of The Western Front Association.
The branch continues to meet every month at The Victoria Institute, 2-4 Brookhouse Road, Caton, Lancaster. LA2 9QT.
Meetings are usually held on the first Monday in the Month. The only exception is when the Monday is a Bank Holiday and we then move the meeting to the Tuesday.
The doors open at 7pm with the talk starting promptly at 7.30pm.
The talks are about one hour long with time for a Q&A session. The meeting finishes with tea/coffee and biscuits with time to chat to the speaker and other attendees.
The branch aims to cover many different aspects of the Great War.
Entrance donations of £5.00 are invited and this includes an entry into the raffle. The prizes are a bottle of wine and several books on the Great War.
New attendees are always given a warm welcome.
Members of the Western Front Association and non-members are invited to join us.
Upcoming Branch Events
'Keeping Open the Highway to India: the Defence of the Suez Canal, 1915 by Dr Adam Prime'
'Keeping Open the Highway to India: The Defence of the Suez Canal, 1915 by Dr Adam Prime' The purpose of this talk is to give an account of not just of the Suez Canal's place in British strategy and the battle itself but also of the soldiers' experiences in Egypt. For the Territorials from East Lancashire this was their first time abroad. For...
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'A Matter of Persistence: The Battle of Festubert 15-25 May 1915 by Dr Michael Woods'
'A Matter of Persistence: The Battle of Festubert 15-25 May 1915 by Dr Michael Woods. Tonight Michael will give his second talk to the branch and this is based on his PhD thesis. The full title is 'A Matter of Persistence: Lessons learned by the British Expeditionary Force and its operational development following the Battle of Festubert 15-25 M...
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'Robert Keable, utterly immoral WW1 chaplain? by Simon Keable-Elliott'
Robert Keable, utterly immoral WW1 chaplain? by Simon Keable-Elliott Simon's talk is about his grandfather's time as a WW1 chaplain in France to the appallingly treated men of the South African Native Labour Corps; and the story of the writing, publication and reaction to Robert Keable's scandalous semi-autobiographical bestselling war novel Sim...
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