Upcoming Events

A day of magnificent achievement

Seven days after the start of the German Spring Offensive on 21 March, the enemy launched another major assault on the fronts of Third and First Armies. Sometimes overlooked by British historians as being merely an extension of Operation Michael 

A Wood Too Far? – Bourlon Wood, November 1917.

Was Bourlon Wood a Wood too Far? 

The Quintinshill Disaster

The forgotten Railway Disaster of the Great War 

Redipuglia Memorial to Italian 3rd Army

With family coming for the area of the Isonzo region, James is the perfect guide to explain the many Battles of Isonzo 

The Devons on 1st July 1916: The man who predicted where he would be killed

Ross will burst a few myths about the attack by the Devons 

Archaeology of the Great War

Perfidious France and the Campaign in the Cameroons (1914-16)

This talk looks at various campaigns in Africa 

Poets and Poems of the Great War

Alnwick based Alan Crowe will discuss some poets of the Great War 

From Southern England to the Somme (21st Anniversary Meeting of the East Kent Branch)

Comparing the landscapes of the Somme to Southern England. 

Sarajevo 1914

The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the Balkan Origins of the First World War 

More on silver badges

Details to follow 

Four Heroes of Verdun

From No Mans Land To Field Hospital

In todays presentation we will learn what happens if you are are wounded in action, how you are rescued, transported, and treated by the medics, and where you are likley to end up if you are luckey enough to survive all of this.  

Searching For Llandudno's Fallen

Smith Dorrien and the Mons Campaign