Welcome to the Midlands (East) branch of the Western Front Association.
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We meet at St. Peter's Rooms, Ruddington on the second Friday of every month. Meetings start at 7.00pm, with the talk normally from 7.30pm.
Upcoming Branch Events
Ocean Greyhounds: The Battle of Dogger Bank - 1915, Dr Scott Lindgren
In January 1915, the British Battlecruiser Fleet under David Beatty pursued their opposite numbers of the German 1st Scouting Ground under Franz Hipper, sinking one vessel. This lecture explores the engagement and its background, along with lessons that should have been learned.
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Robert Keable and the South African Native Labour Corps, Simon Keable-Elliott
Simon will be telling the story of Robert Keable’s time as a WW1 chaplain to the South African Native Labour Corps, the story of the corps and of his grandfather's experiences that led him to write the scandalous WW1 novel Simon Called Peter.
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Strange Meetings - The Life of Wilfred Owen in His Own Words, Shaun Higgins
Strange Meetings is a one man performance which documents the final fifteen months of the life of Wilfred Owen, beginning with his admission to Craiglockhart Hospital with shell-shock, his auspicious meeting with (and befriending of) Siegfried Sassoon, the resulting flourish of poetry, his return to France, and his final and fatal battle in Nove...
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