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November 1, 2021
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November 8, 2021
I served for 30 years as a police officer in the Hampshire Constabulary. On retirement I became a part time historian, working as an archivist in the Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester. I also work as an education guide at the Beaulieu motor museum taking school groups around the collection. I work part time as a battlefield guide taking groups to the Somme, Ypres and Normandy. This is extremely rewarding as often I am taking people back to the locations where their relatives served. I graduated from the Open University in 2018 with a BA (Hons) in History. I am now plodding through a masters degree with the OU in local history studies.
This will discuss the subject’s background, the action in which they were awarded the VC and what happened to them afterwards. It also includes some interesting facts about the founding of the medal and the recipients.
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November 8, 2021
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November 9, 2021
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November 10, 2021
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November 11, 2021
Walking into Grandmother's kitchen at Christmas - a British Raj lifestyle. This talk centres around the family traditions.
Jenny is the author of 'A Grandmother's Legacy: A Memoir of Five Generations Who Lived Through the Days of the Raj'.
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November 11, 2021
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November 12, 2021
Before radio and television filled our evenings.
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November 17, 2021
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November 18, 2021
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November 24, 2021
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November 25, 2021
This presentation covers the scale of the sacrifice in WW1 and WW2, how the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) commemorate the fallen in both wars, their founding principles and the initial adverse public reaction to their plans, personalities involved in the CWGC, layout of the cemeteries, stories behind some of the headstones, the creation of a new cemetery at Fromelles Pheasant Wood after the discovery of a mass grave and how we now commemorate the fallen in recent conflicts.
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