'Be you Berkshire?' : The Berkshire Yeomanry During WW1

By Captain Andrew French, Assistant Honorary Curator, Berkshire Yeomanry Museum. The Berkshire Yeomanry was greatly expanded after the Boer War. It recruited from towns and countryside throughout the county including areas now in Oxfordshire. This talk explores the links between a regiment and its community, revealing the stories of some who served between 1914 and 1916, in the United Kingdom, Egypt, Palestine, France, and Flanders. Part of 'The Great War and the Countryside' seminar series marking a century since the outbreak of the First World War.The talks will reveal a range of narratives, including some connected with Berkshire and Reading. Others will chart the varied ways in which this terrible conflict came to impact upon the British countryside and beyond.

Suitable for
Not suitable for children
18+
16-17


Website
www.reading.ac.uk/merl/ww1seminars

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000391?id=EVENT466649