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This page will feature news about the Great War including feedback from visitors, Centenary events and Birmingham branch WFA information.
WFA – BIRMINGHAM BRANCH SPEAKERS 2013
2 p.m Bedford Suite, Sutton Coldfierld Town Hall. For non-members £3 donation on the door
April 20
Bill MacCormack - “A lack of offensive spirit?”. The 46th Division at Gommecourt on July 1 1916.
May 18
Dr Jim Beach - “Sir Cuthbert Headlam”
June 15
Aimee Fox-Godden - “Hopeless Inefficiency? The role of Brigade staff in operations 1916-1918”
July 20
Mike McCarthy - “Ernst Junger. German war hero”
August 17
Pauline and Jim Pedersen - “The War Graves Photographic Project”
September 21
Sue Satterthwaite - “Bonner VC”
October 19
Simon Justice - “Digging for Victory: British entrenchments and Field Fortifications in Defence of the Western Front 1917-1918”
November 16
Dave Rowland - “The Royal Flying Corps at War – the early years”.
December 21
Members meeting - short talks
Somme photo by Tim 'the trenchtrotter'
