Pacific Coast Branch,
Western Front Association

Topics from previous Annual Seminars

• The US Second Division Attack at Blac Mont, October 1918, by Tom Gudmestad
• Louis James Lipsett, GOC 3rd Canadian Division, by Atholl Sutherland Brown
• British Submarine Operations in the Great War, by Dick Church
• Canadians Shot for Desertion, 1916-18: Glimpses in the Dark, by Alan MacLeod
• The Generals, by Jack Patten
• Hill 70: Forgotten Victory, by Peter Broznitsky
• Sinking Of The Lusitania, by Sal Compagno
• Alsace-Lorraine: Traveling the Battles of the French and American Armies, presented by Bob Denison
• Canadian Women On Active Service in the Great War, presented by Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
• Evolvement of British War Aims, presented by Len Shurtleff
• Forestry, Pioneer, and Railway Troops in the C.E.F., presented by Peter Broznitsky
• The Western Front Then and Now, presented by Jack Patten
• American Recipients of the Victoria Cross in World War One, presented by Wayne Ralph
• The South Africans' Ordeal at Delville Wood, presented by Sidney Allinson
• Two Wheels to the Front, presented by Mary Sanseverino
• Americans in the CEF, presented by Sal Compagno
• The Short, Unhappy Life of the 41st Battalion, presented by Peter Broznitsky
• Silent Witnesses, presented by Jack Patten
• Echoes of War in Victoria, presented by John Azar
• The Saskatchewan War Memorial, presented by Lloyd Jones
• The Zeebrugge Raid, presented by Sidney Allinson
• PPCLI University Companies at Mount Sorrel, presented by Stephen Newman
• "Sleep On, Dear Son, In a Soldier's Grave," presented by Yvonne Van Ruskenveld
• Gallipoli: Battles and Australian War Artists, presented by Bob Denison
• Russians and Ukrainians In The CEF, presented by Peter Broznitsky
• The Easter Uprising - Dublin 1916, presented by Sidney Allinson
• Searching For Harry's Last Resting Place, presented by Nigel Argent
• US 26th Division on the Chemin des Dames, presented by Tom Gudmestad
• The Chinese Labour Corps, presented by Judy Maxwell
• The Great War novels of George Godwin, presented by Robert Thomson
• The German Southwest Africa Campaign, presented by Sidney Allinson
• The Royal Newfoundland Regiment, presented by Wayne Ralph
• The Belgian Army Bomb Disposal Squad in the Ypres Salient, presented by Tom Gudmestad
• The PPCLI and Two Unknowns, presented by Stephen Newman
• The British 1915 Battles in Artois and French Flanders, presented by Bob Denison
• The Underground War on the Western Front at Loos, Chemin-des-Dames, and Verdun, presented by Tom Gudmestad
• Fort Douamont and the Maginot Line, presented by Christina Holstein
• The Battle of Amiens, August 1918, presented by James McWilliams
• The 1st CMR and William Bishop, presented by Wayne Ralph
• WWI War artists, presented by Bob Denison
• 5th Field Regiment, RCA, presented by Dale Murray
• The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, presented by Geoff Bridger
• The Canadian Army Medical Corps, presented by Don Thomas
• The Battle of Verdun, presented by Christina Holstein
• Researching Forgotten Heroes, presented by Geoff Bridger
• The Canadian Letters and Images Project, presented by Dr. Stephen Davies
• Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-1918 CD-ROM, presented by Geoff Bridger
• IWM Trench Map Archive CD-ROM, presented by Bill Ince

More to come . . .

Western Front Association

Bay Street Armoury