Forthcoming series of talks: 18th July 14 – “The Western Front” Liston Hall, Chapel St, Marlow 18th September 14 – “The Training Trenches of Pullingshill Wood”. Liston Hall, Chapel St, Marlow 7th November 14 –...
An exhibition of Waddesdon at War 26th March to 26th October 2014 in the family room. This exhibition marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Drawn from the archive and Rothschild memorabilia collections including loans from other collections. It...
This Lecture was held on Sunday 7 October 2012. The lecturer was the distinguished BBC journalist, Mark Urban, currently diplomatic and defence editor for Newsnight. Mark has published a number of acclaimed books on the history of the British Army including The Man...
Fromelles is a small village in Northern France a few miles to the south of Armentières on the edge of the Lys basin. The village sits on the slope of the Aubers Ridge. In 1916 the front lines ran across the flat ground a mile below the village. On the...
Seventy four years to the day after the disastrous battle of Fromelles, on Monday the 19th July 2010, HRH Prince Charles dedicated the first Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery to be opened for fifty years. No one watching the television news reports...
Shortly before the ceremony, the BMMT were asked by the Ministry of Defence if they could arrange a display in one of the marquees to be put up on the site beside the cemetery. Ingram Murray and Dr. Mike Senior hastily assembled pictures and texts illustrating the...
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