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The Western Front Association was formed to maintain interest in the period 1914-1918.
Regular meetings in Edinburgh
Joined September 2024
NEXT BRANCH MEETING.Sunday 7th September 2025 at 2pm. Location: Scots Guards Club, 1st Floor, 2 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR. Speaker: David Carter .Subject: "The Quintinshill Rail Disaster 1915". Visitors are welcome. Suggested donation £5.00.
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Major W G Barker DSO MC of No 28 Squadron in a Sopwith Camel on the Italian front. Image: IWM (Q 27239)
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Delete one from the capabilities of a First World War fighter aircraft in 1918.
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9th August 1914 - North Sea .The light-cruiser HMS Birmingham encounters German submarine U15 stopped on the surface, with engine trouble - and sinks her by ramming. All 25 German seamen are lost. The first sinking of a German U-Boat by the Royal Navy. Image: IWM (Q 21016)
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France, 9-14 August 1914. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) begins to assemble at Boulogne & Rouen. Initially, a force of 120, 000 men & 53, 000 horses. The main embarkation port is Southampton, but .BEF also embarks from a number of other ports, including Glasgow. (Q50700)
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RT @ron_eisele: A poignant sketch by Winnie the Pooh illustrator E.H. Shepard of WW1, discovered in century old trunk. A French biplane, th….
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RT @RNshiplosses: 9 Aug 1915 // Destroyer HMS Lynx sank after striking a German mine off Wick in northern Scotland. 70 officers and men wer….
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RT @harwich1418: 07 Aug 1917. Squadron Commander Edwin Harris Dunning, DSC. RNAS. Age 25. Jacques Hall, Bradfield. Son of Sir Edwin H….
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RT @Warby315: The latest edition of The Gallipolian has arrived, packed with heartfelt and moving stories about the Gallipoli campaign why….
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RT @RevdPye: 8 Aug 1918, 1st day of Battle of Amiens, British 4th Army, Canadians, Australians & French along with about 450 tanks, pushed….
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David Carter will examine the events of the notorious rail crash at Quintinshill Junction, near Gretna, when a southbound troop train carrying territorials of the Leith based 1/7th Royal Scots slammed into a local service - leaving over 220 dead and a similar number injured.
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RT @Lachouffeke: 7 August 1914 - Belgium - Liège. In the night of 5/6 August the 14th Brigade under Ludendorff breached the Fort Évegné - F….
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RT @RevdPye: 7 Aug 1917, SCO Edwin Dunning, DSC, Royal Naval Air Service, drowned as tried to land on ship, aged 25. Born S. Africa. Educat….
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7th August 1914 - The first shots are fired by a soldier in British service. But not on the Western Front - but in Togoland, West Africa. Private Alhaji Grunshi of the Gold Coast Regiment opens up during operations against strategically important German radio transmitters.
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"There is no question that the peak of enlistment in Britain coincided with the peak of unemployment”. Niall Ferguson, "The Pity of War" (1999), p.206 . With the UK economy experiencing a short-term dislocation after the outbreak of war - unemployment was a factor in recruitment.
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Britain, Aug 1914. But such pictures can produce a false impression of jingoism. In reality, volunteering didn't peak until the following month. It was news of heavy losses at Mons that triggered mass recruitment. For many men, too, there may have been an economic imperative.
A poignant photo of Great Scotland Yard inundated with volunteers for the Army following the outbreak of WWI on 4th August 1914.
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RT @TheWFA: The official trailer for #TheChoral is here. Set in Yorkshire during WW1, a choral society recruits young boys after losing its….
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