Upcoming Events

The Essex Regiment In Ireland 1918-1922

The 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment was posted to Ireland post war, into the Irish War of Independence 

October 16th

Cannock Chase located in Staffordshire , became an important training area for the New Zealanders  

The Allied Intervention in the Far East and Siberia, 1918-20

British Railways in the service to the crown

November 1918 - Where the Guns didn't stop

The fighting continued after the Armistice - where and why? 

'Absence from Commemoration in Barnsley 1914-1939'

Barnsley's Lost Memories 

Should Great Britain have declared war on Germany? A debate and Cabinet Exercise

Project 110

A major Branch research project and service personnel stories arising from it 

Pluck Can Make Up For Inches - the Story of Britain's Great War Bantams

Michael will present his one-man play which dramatises the history of World War I’s Bantam battalions 

Soldiers and Horses: Horses and Soldiers

Without the humble horse, the war would have been so much harder for the PBI. Dr Flynn will explain all... 

HM Cordite Factory Gretna – the human and social side

Cambrai 1917

The Great War on the Silent Screen

War films became a popular source of entertainment 

"Stalky's Forlorn Hope: The Story of Dunsterforce and its Commander"

A look at a little known "sideshow" by British troops in the area of the Caspian Sea, with a link to Kipling 

Our Allies, the French

In this talk Bryn considers the relationship with our French allies during the Great War