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070: April 2004

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'Captain Professor - a life in war and peace' by Michael Howard

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You will rarely find an autobiography that is this detailed and self-effacing. We learn 2/3rds into ‘Captain Professor - a life in war and peace’ that he kept a diary while teaching at Yale, you rather suspect that he kept a diary through-out his life.  Howard remarks with the demise of his mother, that between them, father and mother, lived thr...


21 April 1918 : Pte Joseph Underwood

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Parents, Mathew and Elizabeth Underwood (née Gordon), Belford House, Blackrath, Co. Kildare.  In 1911, living with his parents and seven siblings (5 brothers, 2 sisters)  A bricklayer.  Enlisted in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, 23 November 1915 Transferred to the Machine Gun Corps 16 July 1916 Served in France and took part in fighting on the Som...


British Forces in Italy 1917 - 1918

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‘British Forces in Italy 1917 – 1918’, by Dale Hjort. In October 1917 French and British troops were sent to Italy after a German-Austrian armybroke through the Italian front at Caporetto and began an advance almost to the gates ofVenice. Dale Hjort will examine the notable part these forces played in the challengingconditions of the Alpine fron...


'Travels Along The Italian Front' - Tom Isitt

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We shall welcome Tom Isitt to Hatfield Peverel on Wednesday 10th of January to receive his presentation on the Italian Front.  Tom supplements the historic detail of the various actions through the War with fantastic current day photos of the positions held by both sides , often perched on precarious peaks along the mountain ranges on the border...


Peculiarities of the war in Italy with Dale Hjort

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We welcome Dale to our branch for his presentation 'Peculiarities of the war in Italy'. A number of local Ox & Bucks Battalions fought in Italy during 1918 and our photo, with acknowledgement to the CWGC, is of the Boscon Cemetery on the Asiago Plateau where a number of local men are buried.   


CONFERENCE : 1st, 2nd, 3rd March Canada (Pacific Coast Branch)

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We're sure members of The WFA will be excited to learn of details of this conference in Canada. It will be held in Victoria B.C., Canada which runs from Friday evening (1st March) through to Sunday lunchtime (3rd March). Details and registration is available on the Canada (Pacific Coast Branch) website. In brief the conference will run as follow...


The Staffords at Gallipoli in North Persia, Italy and Mesopotamia

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A special day with the Gallipoli Association to remember the important theatres of the First World War, away from the Western Front The service of the Staffords on the Western Front during World War One is familiar to many. Less well known is their contribution to the wider war. Battalions of both the North and South Staffords served in Gallipol...


'48th (South Midlands) Division in Western France & Italy' - A talk by Derek Plews

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Derek's talk takes us to the Western Front and then Italy in the footsteps of the 48th (South Midlands) Division. This is Derek's first visit to the Branch. Our main photograph is of members of the 48th Division at Asiago