News from the Lancashire (North) branch of The Western Front Association.
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 17: May 2016
Lancashire North Branch Despatch issue 17: May 2016 The front page of this Despatch takes on an unusual layout to di...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 16: November 2015
Lancashire North Despatch Issue 16: November 2015 On 18th September 1919 General Sir John Cowans received the acclaim...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 15: May 2015
Residents of North Lancashire, especially Over Kellett, in the 1870s would never know that the young Jack Cowans grow...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 14: Nov 2014
The frontispiece shows the 1/5th Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster (KORL) Regiment marching along Caton Road to La...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 13: May 2014
This edition's frontispiece is a photo taken on the Braemar Castle when bound for France on 22nd August 1914. Leanin...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 12: Nov 2013
This month's frontispiece is thanks to Barrie Bertram's cancelled summer holiday and his interest in the WW1 involv...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 11: May 2013
This frontispiece is especially for our long serving Chairman who is renowned for his interest in “Old Bill”. Read mo...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 10: Nov 2012
Katie Hampson’s sketch of the Menin Gate has been specially commissioned for this 10th Issue of Despatch. A former pu...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 9: May 2012
Lancashire North Despatch Issue 9: May 2012 The frontispiece group photo is of the staff at the Staff College, Quetta...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 8: Nov 2011
Lancashire North Despatch Issue 8: Nov 2011 On 10th November 1920 the frontispiece photo (IWM ref Q111468 ) shows t...
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 7: May 2011
Ninety four years ago in April/May 1917 the battles raged east of Arras. The cover image (IWM ref Q6228) of British...
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