Upcoming Events

Members Night

A chance to display the many talents of our own Essex Branch members 

The All Arms Battle and Manoeuvre Warfare – British Airpower 1917

From Brown Bess to SMLE

Percy Camplin: A Librarian on the Western Front

"Arf a Mo' Kaiser": How Tommy saved Britain's wartime mail order tobacco trade

Tabacco fundraising and the First World War. 

Public Schools and the Junior Officer Corps of 1916

Find out more about public schools in WW1 

German Tanks at Villers-Bretonneux

In April 1918, German and British tanks clashed in the world’s first tank-on-tank battle. 

On 13th November, Beaumont Hamel was English

August 1914 - Following a supply column

the total chaos of the opening weeks of the Great War 

The Indian Army in East Africa, 1914

How the Indian army came to serve in East Africa, the battles around Tanga (and Longido) and the repercussions 

10 Decisions that settled the Campaign to the Marne

How did the German campaign in 1914 go from invasion to retreat in six weeks? 

Mountains, Mules and Malaria—Soldiering with the British Salonika Force 1915-18

Mobilization. The 18 Days 5-22 August 1914

The preparation, organisation and despatch of the thousands of men of the BEF to face the battles to come. 

The French on the Somme

More to it than Tanks: The Battle of Cambrai – Nov-Dec 1917

How important was artillery at the Battle of Cambrai