CHESTERFIELD WFA Newsletter and Magazine issue 56 Co-Patrons -Sir Hew Strachan & Prof. Peter Simkins Welcome to Issue 56 - the August 2020 Newsletter and Magazine of President - Professor Gary Sheffield MA PhD FRHistS Chesterfield WFA. FRSA Vice-Presidents In view of the current public health Andre Colliot pandemic engulfing the globe, your Professor John Bourne BA PhD committee took the prudent FRHistS decision, before the introduction of The Burgomaster of Ypres Government legislation, to cancel until The Mayor of Albert further notice our monthly meetings. Lt-Col Graham Parker OBE Christopher Pugsley FRHistS Meetings and other activities will be Lord Richard Dannat GCB CBE MC restarted as and when the authorities DL deem it safe for us to do so. Roger Lee PhD jssc Dr Jack Sheldon In the interim this Newsletter / Magazine will continue Branch contacts Tony Bolton We would urge all our members to adopt all the (Chairman) government`s regulations that way we can keep safe anthony.bolton3@btinternet .com and hopefully this crisis will be controlled, the virus Mark Macartney (Deputy Chairman) defeated, and a degree of normality restored.
[email protected] Jane Lovatt (Treasurer) Stay safe everybody – we are all – in the meantime - Grant Cullen (Secretary) `Confined to Barracks`
[email protected] Facebook http://www.facebook.com/g Grant Cullen – Branch Secretary roups/157662657604082/ http://www.wfachesterfield.com/ - 1 - Western Front Association Chesterfield Branch – Meetings 2020 Meetings start at 7.30pm and take place at the Labour Club, Unity House, Saltergate, Chesterfield S40 1NF January 7th . AGM and Members Night – presentations by Jane Ainsworth, Ed Fordham, Judith Reece, Edwin Astill and Alan Atkinson February 4th Graham Kemp `The Impact of the economic blockage of Germany AFTER the armistice and how it led to WW2` March 3rd Peter Hart Après la Guerre Post-war blues, demobilisation and a home fit for very few.