2019 - Meeting Dates and Speaker Programme

 

 

Next Meeting - Monday, 29th July 2019

Speaker - Ross Beadle

Topic - Sir William Robertson: the Architect of Victory

(image: an American official photographer - image Q69626 IWM)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venue opens at 7:00 p.m. and the meeting commences at 7:30 p.m. For venue directions please click HERE.

 

The 2019 Branch Speaker Programme

Date Speaker Topic
January 28th Rev. Nigel Cave The Bloodiest Battle in the History of the United States: The Meuse-Argonne 1918
February 25th John Doyle The Battle of Mount Sorrel - 1916
March 25th John Stanyard Three VCs in Two Armies
April 29th Alan Robinson The Battle of Verdun
May 27th (BH) Megan Kelleher The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
June 24th Dave Dunham

The Great War - German Air Raids on Britain
July 29th

Ross Beadle

 Sir William Robertson: the Architect of Victory?
August 26th (BH) Adam Lowe The Ruler
September 30th  Nigel Atter "Advance to Victory" - the 2nd Leicesters in Palestine, 1918

October 28th 

Dr Jim Beach

"Untidy Ending to the War" - the Inter-Allied Commission in Teschen, 1919
November 25th Dr Paul Stamper "Legacies of the First World War" - Building for Total War, 1914-1918
December 30th David  Humberston Animals of the Great War

(BH = Bank Holiday)

(TBC = To Be Confirmed)

Note:

Our meetings and speakers are sometimes subject to last minute changes for a variety of reasons, so please check back regularly for updates and/or changes.

 

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