**STOP PRESS** Meeting Cancelled!!

Due to the forecasts of adverse weather in our region, we have decided to cancel the meeting planned for Friday 18th January, 2013.  This decision was taken after discussions between committee members and with the scheduled speaker.  Please accept our apologies for any disappointment this may cause, but the welfare of travelling members was our main concern.  We will endeavour to re-book Jeremy Banning later in the year and will post subsequent information on this site and elsewhere.

Branch Meeting 18th January 2013

This month's speaker is Jeremy Banning BE (Hons), MA.  Jeremy is an author and military historian specialising in the 1917 Battle of Arras and underground tunnelling warfare in the Great War.  He appeared in the last series of the BBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are' and also advised on the Time Team's 2010 Channel 4 special, 'The Somme's Secret Weapon', which followed the search for a Livens Flame Projector buried on the battlefield.  His talk is entitled;

"The Battle of Arras: April-May, 1917"

This presentation describes the British attack of 1917, investigates the costly French attacks of two years earlier and looks at the political, strategic and logistical situation facing the Allies in Spring 1917.