Upcoming Events

Lessons from the Mud: 55th (West Lancashire) Division at Third Ypres

An introduction to the R. E. Tunnelling Companies 1915 – 1918.

The story of specialist units of skilled miners and engineers, recruited from civilian industries, who fought an "underground war" on the Western Front 

Bristling With Guns

Captured German Artillery in UK Towns and Cities 

Mobilisation 1914

Members' Evening

An informal evening with contributions from branch memebrs 

Chatham Dockyard a Disaster

WW1's worst air raid in Britain  

Maldon In The Great War

A talk about an Essex town and its Great War  

The Work of the Voluntary Aid Detachments (Chauffeuses), 1916-1919

The experiences of the VAD women ambulance drivers during WW1. 

Do we fight the British or the Germans? Boer rebellion 1914-1918

A little known episode of the Great War when with bitter memories of the Boer War  

Women in War and Peace

An exploration of how the Great War led to great social change for women 

The Franco-Prussian War and its consequences

A seminal conflict in the emergence of Imperial Germany, the consequences of which extended to the outbreak of the Great War. 

Commemoration

Evolution of Commemoration post-war. 

Harwich Submarine Flotilla in the Great War

The story of the Royal Navy's first submarine campaign. 

Aussie Magazine and the Australian Corps in 1918-19

A Look at the popular magazine for Australian Troops 

1/25th County of London Cyclists

The 25th London Cyclists, a largely forgotten regiment.