Upcoming Events

No bullets & blood

About half of the 1914 workforce became involved the war in a military capacity but the home population as well as the military personnel still needed to be clothed and fed 

Gallipoli Day: An Angry Vicar and a Lasting Legacy.

One mans fight to honour the memory of British Troops who served in Gallipoli 

Invasion Scares from Napoleon to the Kaiser

The Spy Who Disappeared

A true story of espionage, banditry and derring-do in Transcaspia and the Caucasus. 

1917: Russia's Year of Revolutions

Two events that shook the world 

Branch Symposium

The first branch symposium. 

Canadian Pilots of the Great War

The lives of 3 Canadian Pilots including 2 VCs 

The CWGC Non-commemoration project

CWGC "Every name we recover is a person no longer forgotten" 

Malta-Nurse of the Mediterranean

Malta earned the title ‘nurse of the Mediterranean’ 

Maj Phil Watson: The 12th Lancers — from horse to horse-power

A look at the 12th Lancers' evolution from cavalry to armoured cars. 

Mud, blood and bandages

The development of Battlefield Medical Services in WW1 

Life in the Trenches

What was life really like in the trenches? 

Origins of The Schlieffen Plan

Germany's Thinking Behind The Schlieffen Plan, and the subcequent outcome. 

AGM And Wales Versus The Flying Circus

The stories of Welsh pilots and observers who came up against the Flying Circus of Manfred von Richtofen 

The Battle of Le Cateau 26th August 1914

The Battle of Le Cateau on August 26, 1914, was a British rear-guard action, costly but successful.