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
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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Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry On The Somme 1916 - Stephen Barker
Stephen will be returning to give his talk on 'The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on the Somme 1916' which highlights four significant battles of the campaign in which five Ox and Bucks LI battalions fought. The talk explains the political and military context, yet includes too a significant number of personal stories, anecdotes...
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The Commission's Enquiries Files - Megan Kelleher
The CWGC have recently began releasing digitised versions of their Enquiries, or "E" Files and these records can provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the bereaved. In this talk, Megan will focus on the records relating to the United Kingdom; from changes in commemoration types, to unexpected and exceptional circumstances, examples fro...
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