Welcome to the Staffs (North) & Cheshire (South) branch of The Western Front Association.
PLEASE NOTE : We will be re-commencing meetings on Monday 13th September 2021 in our new venue Newcastle Congregational Church.
Doors open at 6:45pm and meetings start at 7pm.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Upcoming Branch Events
"Three Days in the Great War" by Dr Derek Clayton
Derek Clayton was born in Yorkshire and attended Batley Grammar School before beginning a long association with the University of Birmingham. He graduated in 1979 with a BA in French and German and went on to teach Modern Languages in three Birmingham schools before retiring in 2015. His fascination with military history began in childhood, but the…
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V Beach 25th April 1915" by Peter Hart
The British landing on 25 April 1915 at V Beach, Helles was a disaster, a case of over-optimistic planning that presumed everything would go well, and that the Turks wouldn't put up much of a fight! Planning that ignored the strong Turkish defenses. A 'cunning plan' of Baldrick proportions in the River Clyde, which was NOT a landing craft, wasn't p…
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"Cogs in the Machinery of War" by Dr Viv Newman
On 15 November 1918, The Times enthusiastically thanked women for 'the invaluable services which they have so freely given to the national cause', in particular the women who, from 1915 had flocked into the munitions factories which had sprung up across the land. Vital 'cogs in the machinery of war', the newspaper acknowledged that munitions worker…
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