The Preston branch of the Western Front Association (WFA). The WFA was formed in 1980 to maintain interest in the First World War (1914-1918).
Joined December 2013
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
14 Feb 2023
Could we all show a bit of #ValentinesDay love for #JudgesLodgings to feature on the new #Lancaster Monopoly board alongside #LancasterCastle? Where else would you pick to be featured in the city? ❤️❤️lancasterguardian.co.uk/news…
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
13 Feb 2023
13 February 1935 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Eliza Louise Gazan, was born in Brielle.
In September 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
14 Feb 2023
February, 1942 | A member of the Jewish Order Service (Judischer Ordnungsdienst) with two children during the first deportations in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (occupied Poland). It will last until May 1942 and 55k of the 200k Jews in the ghetto will be deported to the Kulmhof.
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
7 Nov 2020
Visit our Facebook page tomorrow at 10.32am to watch our online service of remembrance for #RemembranceSunday
Go to: facebook.com/chorleycouncil
Support @PoppyLegion by donating here: britishlegion.org.uk/get-inv…
#LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem #RemembranceDay
@StuartAClewlow
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
11 Oct 2020
Flanders cycling classic @GentWevelgem - supposed to take place in March - is happening today. The race started at the @CWGC Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and passes alongside many of the immaculately kept @CWGC cemeteries and Memorials @InFlanderFields @Vannieuwkerke @sporza @VRT
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
11 Oct 2020
For all my fellow compatriots who are counting down the days of returning to the Western Front here is a brief aerial view of Tyne Cot from the Gent-Wevelgem.
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
20 Mar 2020
Stuck at home because of #coronavirus? Why not have some fun with your kids and teach them a bit about #ww1, what more could you want?
Here's a free #Percy1918 colouring sheet for you to print at home, in either A4 or A5 size. Don't forget to share them when you're done!
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29 Jan 2020
We had our first meeting at our new venue The Guild Ale House in Preston on 27/01/2020. Dr. Martin Purdy gave us a brilliant talk on Westfield War Memorial Village in Lancaster and the treatment of returning… instagram.com/p/B76-lxCg6eP/…
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28 Dec 2019
The latest CWGC appeal for relatives / next of kin for these casualties. Five out of the six servicemen died in the Great War. facebook.com/WFALeyland/post…
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
15 Dec 2019
REMINDER:
The final branch meeting of the year (obviously!) will take this Wednesday - 18 December, 19:30 for a 20:00 start.
Branch member Catherine Rousseau-Jones will be speaking about:
"My Great Grandfather's service in the French Army August 1914- February 1915"
@TheWFA
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
24 Apr 2019
I have a great honour today. I got a medal from UK The Chief Of The General Staff.@CWGC @bnbgundogan @Bennett22David #AnzacDay2019
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Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
15 Apr 2019
We need your help! We’re looking to gather stories of those servicemen and women who we commemorate on #Malta. If you have a story about someone who is under the care of @CWGC on the island then please upload it to our Malta Stories Project here: ow.ly/gj5i30mLILx #WW1 #WW2
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5 Feb 2019
Hello folks. If you've contacted me in the past couple of months and haven't had a a reply, it is because of a work project that I have been engaged in and now I have fractured my arm - I slipped on Ice outside... facebook.com/380256798731724…
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3 Feb 2019
Superb exhibition - from front line all the way back to hospitals around the UK, this exhibition shows the full story and the massive part played by hospital trains and the railway network
2 Feb 2019
WW1 Ambulance trains at the National Railway Museum. They carried as many patients as modern hospitals have beds!
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3 Feb 2019
@ LancsHospitals Hi - I fractured my arm on Friday while walking into work - so had to visit you to get it looked at. First class service from start to finish and I would like to give a particular shout out to staff in X-Ray dept who I had a laugh with. Thanks all x
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3 Feb 2019
BTW - I visited Preston hospital at Sharoe Green
Preston & Central Lancashire WFA retweeted
31 Jan 2019
Plaque to commemorate the #WW1 #Chorley Pals to be unveiled at town's Railway Station at 11.50 a.m. on Sat., 23rd Feb - the 114th anniversary when they went off to War. @LindsayHoyle_MP @northernassist @ChorleyCouncil @ChorleyEvents @Chorleytweetup @CTAN2018 @ChorleyChitChat
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10 Dec 2018
A fantastic opportunity
9 Dec 2018
The @CWGC is now seeking applications from students aged 18 or over to join its Interns programme in 2019. Find out more, and apply, here: ow.ly/hYA730mU0Ps #CWGCinterns
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