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
The Invisible Corps - Roy Larkin
Roy will be making a return visit to Ruddington to talk his specialist subject, the Army Service Corps. In this talk he will give a brief overview of the Army Service Corps 1914-18, revealing a story of evolution, passing the buck and meddling civilians!
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Three Days In The Great War - Dr Derek Clayton
Derek may be familiar to people as the author of 'From Pontefract to Picardy', which looked at the 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Great War.However, 'Three Days in the Great War' is based on his MA Dissertation and examines the performance of the 49th Division in set-piece attacks on 3 September 1916 at Thiepval, 9 Octo...
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War In The Ukraine 1914 - 1924 - Major John Cotterill
John is well known to branch members and has kindly agreed to deliver his talk on 'War in the Ukraine 1914 - 1924'. Ukraine, of course, remains in the news today, but John's talk will look at Ukraine involvement in the Great War, when it was in the front lines of two of the main combatants, Imperial Russia and Austria-Hungary, and then it compli...
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