News from the York Branch of The Western Front Association
Review of The British Army in Mesopotamia, by Paul Knight (August 2019)
Before Paul took us through the events during the Mesopotamia campaign, he introduced us to a set of people who became i…
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Review of Mountains, Mules & Malaria by Alan Wakefield (Sept 2019)
The decision to join the French troops in Greece was taken by Kitchener & the British Government in 1915 after the f…
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Review of A Field Ambulance at Arras by Alistair Hollington (October 2019)
The Field Ambulance was a mobile front-line medical unit (it was not a vehicle), manned by troops of the Royal Army Medi…
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Review of The Killing of the Iron 12 by Dr Hedley Malloch (November 2019)
The British soldiers who were arrested by the Germans in February 1915 were mainly from the Connaught Rangers and the Mu…
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Review of Frock coats and Brass Hats by Gordon Corrigan (December 2019)
The involvement of politics and the military goes back centuries but Gordon began his talk in 1658 with the dying Oliver…
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