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‘Gunners definitely, but not necessarily Arsenal fans’: The Field Artillery Brigades of the Four London Territorial Force (TF) Divisions 1914-1918’ a talk by Simon Shepard

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As war broke out in 1914 several of the artillery bridges of the London TF Divisions were on their way to their annual summer training camps, borrowing horses and guns as they went.  Many were undermanned but several had men with prior war experience to lead them. London provided four TF divisions, drawn from across the city. Simplistically, thi...


Gunners but not necessarily Arsenal fans.

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Lt.-Col Simon Shephard: Gunners definitely - but not necessarily Arsenal Fans Simon will follow the sixteen field artillery brigades of the four London Territorial Divisions from mobilisation in 1914, through training (1915-1916), and onto their campaigns on the Western Front (1915-1918), in Salonika (1916) and Palestine (1917-1918).  The lectur...