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ONLINE : Branch Zoom Meeting 19/09/20
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Email jd@wfa-birmingham.org.uk WFA Branch ZOOM Saturday 19th September Location : Zoom Online : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85713865706?pwd=SHFsWHFLSElyR1VNSld3Sy84bHdjZz09 Meeting ID: 857 1386 5706 : Passcode: 968771 Welcome and Introduction to Zoom meetings JD “remembrance” . A local Soldier remembered. …
The Gallipoli Oak by Martin Purdy and Ian Dawson
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Paperback: 174 pages Publisher: Moonraker Publishing; 1st edition (2013) ISBN-10: 0955447216 ISBN-13: 978-0955447211 A masterful and poetically told story that reads as easily as Michael Morpargo and is just as visual; here however the authors are relating fact rather than fiction. The Gallipoli Oak has everything for the person interested in t…
The Landings at Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli
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One of the most difficult military operations that can be undertaken is that of an opposed amphibious landing on an enemy shore. When asked to give an example of this kind of operation, many people will automatically think of the famous and successful 'D-Day' landings in Normandy in 1944. However, April 2021 marks the 106th anniversary of an earl…
ONLINE: Lt. Col. Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie with Anne Pedley
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Dick Doughty-Wylie was the archetypal Victorian – he joined the Army in 1889 and almost immediately saw action at Chitral and later at Crete, Sudan, the Boer War, Somaliland and took part in quelling the Boxer rebellion in China. In later years, he took on a diplomatic role in life, with his wife, Lily, and it was while he was British consul in Tu…
General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Gallipoli Campaign by Will Bryant
General Sir Ian Hamilton was born in Corfu on 16 January 1853. He saw extensive service in many parts of the British Army and he also took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Mahdist War and the First and Second Boer Wars. After Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army. In March 191…