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
07 Dec
"The most important naval fortress in the British Empire". The fortification of the Firth of Forth 1880-1977. A talk by Dr Gordon Barclay.
The Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace, Haymarket, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR
07 Dec 2025 14:00
"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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