News from the York Branch of The Western Front Association
Review of 'Yorkshire Deserters on the Home Front' by Andrea Hetherington (M…
One should not confuse the soldiers ‘Shot at Dawn’ with the young men who were court martialled for desertion. Over 80,0…
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Review of 'Theatre and the Great War' by Helen Brooks
When one thinks of the theatre during the war years (1914-18), what themes ran through the productions? Were the product…
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Review of 'Not just trenches: some battles of 1914 we forgot to remember' b…
The First World War was truly global in where conflicts occurred, over 110 areas saw fighting of some kind during the 19…
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Review of 'Meritocracy in the BEF 1914 -18' by Peter Hodgkinson (December 2…
This talk looks at the appointment of Infantry Battalion Commanders before and during the Great War. Until the Cardwell …
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Review of U boat war 1914-18 by Graham Kemp (August 2021)
U boats were not quite the submarines we have come to expect from WW2, in 1914 they were submersible double hulled torpe…
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Review of 'Learning on the job' How Douglas Haig became a battlefield manag…
How Haig was perceived by his contemporaries opposed to how he saw them was the basis for this talk. Once example is th…
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Review of William Leefe Robinson VC and the First Blitz by David Marks (Oct…
Zeppelins were rigid airships, named after the German inventor Count von Zeppelin, with a metallic structural skeleton a…
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Review of 'The Last Post - The Post Office’s work during the Great War' b…
At the outbreak of World War One, Britain had the most advanced undersea telegraph cable system. It wrapped around the w…
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Review of Operation Michael by Rob Thompson (January 2019)
During the German Spring Offensive of March 1918, the maximum distance the German Army advanced was 40 miles compared to…
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Review of Shout at the Devil by Kevin Patience (February 2019)
In April 1914 SMS Königsberg, a light cruiser laid down in 1905 armed with ten 4.1 in Krupp guns and capable of a speed …
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Review of The Aftermath by Prof John Derry (April 2019)
The consequences of the Great War were primarily an intensification of ongoing events, events which involved the decline…
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Review of The BEF – a final verdict? John Bourne (June 2019)
The BEF which went to France in 1914 to support the French Army was not a conscript army (unlike the French & German…
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