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A Lieutenant at fifteen is the remarkable story of Alfred Davis who was one of the youngest officers to serve in the British Army during World War 1. This talk will explain how he was able to gain a commission at the age of fifteen and what he encountered in his time on the Western Front.  It seem unbelievable that someone as young as Alfred ser...

  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...