Military History Group U3A Dorking Newsletter Number 4 11 November 2020 Contact email:
[email protected] Phone Barrie Friend 07796 633516 Contributions for the newsletter to Robert Bartlett
[email protected] Meetings via Zoom during Pandemic 1 Contents Group Leader 2 Programme 2020 2021 3 Zoom Presentations 3 Interesting site 3 They Buried Him Among Kings 4 Poetry, Poppies and Remembrance 8 Black Servicemen in the BEF, 1914-1918 11 Cromwell, The New Model Army and The Battle of Naseby 15 Escape from a Nazi firing squad 25 Book Reviews 29 Winston Churchill and the art of Leadership 29 Churchill and Stalin 31 Dambuster in Chief – Ralph Cochrane 33 Sam – Marshall of the RAF Lord Elworthy 36 2 Programme 2020/2021 December 1: Next month's Military History Group Zoom talk will be 10.30 am and will be given by Jim Barnes: Balloons, Barnstormers, the Royal Flying Corps and those German Airforce pioneers. The story of balloons to the pioneering work of the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and their adversaries, the German Air Force, 100 years ago. The talk includes development of what was a new element in 1914 – the aeroplane and the new dimension ‘Air Power’ what was Great Britain’s and Germany’s achievement? Much has been written but we look at the most interesting stories of men and their machines. January 5th Guest Zoom Speaker ‘Gallipoli' February 2nd George Blundell Pound: “The Naval Battles of Coronel and The Falklands” March 3rd Barrie Friend April 6th Jim Barnes: ‘Women at War’ May 4 June 8 July 6 August 3 September