Forthcoming events of the Midlands (East) branch of the Western Front Association.
The Commission's Enquiries Files - Megan Kelleher
13 Dec 2024 19:30Midlands (East)
The CWGC have recently began releasing digitised versions of their...
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The 6th Lincolns at Gallipoli and the Post War Controversy, Jonathan D'H...
10 Jan 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
When Great Britain entered the Great War in August 1914, only Lord...
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Ocean Greyhounds: The Battle of Dogger Bank - 1915, Dr Scott Lindgren
14 Feb 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
In January 1915, the British Battlecruiser Fleet under David Beatty...
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Robert Keable and the South African Native Labour Corps, Simon Keable-El...
14 Mar 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
Simon will be telling the story of Robert Keable’s time as a WW1 ch...
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Strange Meetings - The Life of Wilfred Owen in His Own Words, Shaun Higgins
11 Apr 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
Strange Meetings is a one man performance which documents the final...
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Tragedy at Quintinshill - May 1915, Grant Cullen
09 May 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which o...
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The 8th Lincolns at the Battle of Loos, Nigel Atter
13 Jun 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
This talk focuses on the actions of the 8th Battalion, the Lincolns...
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"Dear Billie" - Killed on Flying Duty - The Changing Role of the Castle...
11 Jul 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
From a basic training airfield using 'canary cages' in 1915 to an o...
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London's Buses That Stayed at Home, Roy Larkin
08 Aug 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
A welcome return for Roy who will be giving his new talk on the var...
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Nobody's Heroes - 8th East Lancs in the Great War, Stephen Barker
12 Sep 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
Although the talk is about a Lancashire battalion, the presentation...
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The Life and Death of Leigh Roose, Sportsman and Soldier, Spencer Vignes
10 Oct 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
In 1914 Leigh Roose, the first superstar of modern day football, we...
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From No-Man's Land to Auxiliary Hospital: Evacuating the Great War Wound...
14 Nov 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
This talk takes the audience on the journey of a wounded man from t...
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The Enemy Within: Germans in Britain 1914-1918, Tim Lynch
12 Dec 2025 19:30Midlands (East)
When war broke out, thousands of German subjects - many who had nev...
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