Welcome to the Scotland (South) branch of the Western Front Association.
We meet regularly in Edinburgh:
Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace, Haymarket, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR.
Meetings are held on a Sunday at 2.00pm for 2.15pm.
Upcoming Branch Events
The Quintinshill Rail Disaster 22 May 1915 - with David Carter.
David will examine the events surrounding the notorious multi-train rail crash at Quintinshill Junction, near Gretna, when a southbound troop train carrying territorials of the Leith based 1/7th Royal Scots slammed into a local service. With over 220 dead, and a similar number injured, it remains the worst crash in the history of the railways in...
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The Sea Soldiers - Royal Naval Division at War 1914-1918. A talk by Dr Andrew Jeffrey.
Andrew's talk will trace the history of the Royal Naval Division from its baptism of fire at the 1914 defence of Antwerp to Gallipoli, the Somme and the Western Front. It will show how the Sea Soldiers, hastily-formed, half-trained and woefully ill-equipped when they landed at Gallipoli in 1915, were transformed into an elite force fighting at t...
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"The most important naval fortress in the British Empire". The fortification of the Firth of Forth 1880-1977. A talk by Dr Gordon Barclay.
"Yet in 1916 the Forth became the most powerful naval fortress – most powerful whether measured by armament, by garrison, or by any other standard – in the British Empire, and probably, therefore, in the World." General George K Scott-Moncrieff, Director, Fortifications & Works, War Office, 1911-1918. Chambers’s Journal (1922) Gordon's talk...
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