Scotland (North) Branch

2009 Programme of Events


 

Unless stated otherwise meetings are held in The Gallery Elgin Library at 2:30 pm.


24th January

The Empire Strikes Back: The Battle of Le Hamel, 4 July 1918.

Derek Bird, Branch Chairman.


21st February

Talbot House: A Haven in Hell, 1915 - ?

Morag Sutherland, Branch Member and Talbot House Volunteer.


14th March

Did He Really Shake Hands With Lenin? The Great War, The Russian Revolution and William Leslie, Elgin War Resister and Radical Socialist.

Bill Kenefick, University of Dundee.


16th May

The Wet Flanders Plain.

Derek Smith, Honorary Branch President.


20th June

Douglas Haig: Architect of Victory.

Walter Reid, Author.


18th July

A Subaltern’s Odyssey: Lt Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly, MC, Royal Field Artillery.

David Cohen, Great War Art Historian.


August

No Meeting


26th September

The Scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet, 1919.

Bill Fulton, Chairman, Essex Branch, WFA.


17th October

British Army Honours and Awards 1914 -1918.

Charles Messenger, Historian and Author.


7th November

Members’ Forum and Auction.

Short presentations and auction of books etc.


 

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