2017 LECTURES | Lancashire Infantry Museum

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Lectures Video Archive

Lectures From 2017

27 October 2017 -
THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY 1948-60

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Talks by John Downham who outlines the campaign and David Rogan who considers the pivotal role of ex-Loyals officer Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer. More importantly, and in a first for the Museum, veterans of 1st Loyals tour of duty in the late 1950's recount their experiences in their own words

Image by Allie Reefer

Image by Allie Reefer

7 July 2017 - OPERATION MARKET GARDEN 1944 AND THE BATTLE FOR THE CORRIDOR

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Two talks by John Downham, The ill-fated airborne attempt to go "a bridge too far" and the Battle of Arnhem; and the operation to support XXX Corps' drive up 'Hell's Highway.' Two of our antecedent regiments had hard fights in this little-known aspect of a famous failure. These talks supplement 'Bosch Rose,' the Friends 2017 Battlefied Tour to the Netherlands.

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19 May 2017 - MESSINES AND THIRD YPRES (PASSCHENDAELE) 1917

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In this Centenary year John Downham and David Rogan study these two pivotal battles, including the living hell that was Passchendaele, the mud-mired morass which, with the Somme, has so much come to represent the very worst horrors of the Western Front

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31 March 2017 - THE 38th (LANCASHIRE) BRIGADE IN MESOPOTAMIA 1914-1918

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Mesopotamia Campaign expert Major Paul Knight tells the story of the Lancashire men who fought their way from Basra to Baghdad and beyond, including the epic crossing of the Diyalah River - Lancashire's own "Rorke's Drift."

PRESERVING THE HERITAGE OF FIVE LANCASHIRE REGIMENTS

The East Lancashire Regiment

(30th and 59th of Foot)

The South Lancashire Regiment

(40th and 82nd of Foot)

The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment

The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)

The Loyal Regiment

(North Lancashire)

(47th and 81st of Foot)

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