Welcome to the Tyneside branch of the Western Front Association.
We meet on the third Monday of each month at 7.30pm for 8.00pm.
VENUE: Allotment Social Club, Benton Road, West Allotment, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE27 0DN.
Upcoming Branch Events
Great War Military Commanders at the Battle of Omdurman 1898 by Peter Hart
They weren’t always old! Great War generals were once young and they fought in their own battles. One of the most murderous was the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898. See how the likes of Haig, Kitchener, Churchill, Townshend, Maxse, and Smith-Dorrien fared when facing thousands of Dervishes. This lecture is based on Peter's book Chain of Fir...
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Churchill's Little Army: The Royal Naval Division in WW1 by Alan Fidler
The oddest formation in the war, Winston Churchill’s idea was to find a role for surplus naval reservists to fight on land in the forthcoming war. He convinced the Admiralty and the government to form a division of Royal Marines supplemented with stokers from the Royal Fleet Reserve. After an abortive intervention in the siege at Antwerp, when m...
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