The_Poppy_March_2012.pdf - The Western Front Association
The_Poppy_March_2012.pdf - The Western Front Association
The_Poppy_March_2012.pdf - The Western Front Association
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Branch Battlefield Tour 2012 –<br />
Messines, Third Ypres and Courtrai<br />
Remembrance Day at Brock Barracks<br />
Passchendaele in the Autumn of 1917<br />
Sunday 10th June to Friday 15th June 2012<br />
Thanks to the efforts of Don Farr and Ian<br />
Fenne everything is now in place for this<br />
year’s tour with reservations at the Albion<br />
Hotel*** in Ieper confirmed and travel<br />
arrangements for the mini-bus, cars and<br />
P&O Ferry crossings all booked. Planning<br />
for the trip is well under way and presenters<br />
will be busy researching their chosen<br />
subjects over the next couple of months.<br />
Mike Lawson will be shortly drafting the<br />
itinerary, following recces to the areas<br />
around Mesen (Messines), Passendale<br />
(Passchendaele) and Kortrijk (Courtrai) by<br />
Don, Mike and Michael Orr in early April.<br />
Sunday 13th November 2011<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chairman, Bridgeen Fox, about to lay a wreath at the Cenotaph,<br />
Brock Barracks, Reading at the Service of Remembrance<br />
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