Welcome to the Southend on Sea branch of The Western Front Association.
We meet at The Royal Naval Association Building, 73 East Street. Southend, SS2 6LQ on the third Monday of each month at 8.00pm.
Upcoming Branch Events
'From this point the tourist should go on foot': experiencing the Somme, 1919-1939 by Mark Connelly.
Royal Naval Association (Southend) , 73-79 East St, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6LQ
17 Nov 2025 20:00
Unlike Ypres, which although devastated was close to the channel ports and had its transport links rapidly re-established, visiting the Somme was a far more challenging prospect in the years immediately following the war. Nearly fifty miles across from Amiens to St Quentin and close to thirty miles long from Ayette to the Somme river crossings,...
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