Somerset

  Regarded as a lively, well informed, and very amusing speaker, Peter Hart is regular and popular speaker at our branch. Peter is a military historian specialising in the Great War and was the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum from 1981 until his retirement. The airmen lived from safety to dire danger, and back again in a matter of hour...

AGM and The German U boat   We start the evening with a short AGM and this will be followed by a look at the German U Boat. Chairman Ian Steveson will look at some of the little known facts of the German U boat as well as some of the more notorious actions that caused outrage around the world.   Both WFA members and non members alike are equally...

 Chris Copson education officer at The Tank Museum and formerly of The Keep ( Dorset's museum) will take a look at the Gallipoli campaign through the eyes of the 5th Battalion of the Dorset Regiment.  The Battalion suffered severe casualties and deprivation due to the terrain and location, at one stage the battalion was down to approximately 250...