Painting of ‘The 28th, 1st Gloucestershire Regiment at Waterloo’ William Barnes Wollen.
The Glosters at Waterloo
Talk by Andy Meller
Wednesday 27th March 2024 at 7:30pm
at the Ashcroft Church, Ashcroft Road, Cirencester GL7 1RA
Andy Meller will lead us in the footsteps of the North Gloucestershire 28th Regiment of Foot as they take part in the Waterloo Campaign of June 1815. Always in the thick of the action, we will discover why the 28th were the only English line regiment to receive a mention by name in the Duke of Wellington’s famous Waterloo Despatch.Talk
Lectures & Meetings Programme
Autumn 2023 – Summer 2024
Wednesday 10th April 2024
Speaker to be announced at a later date. Sir Emrys Jones lecture theatre, Royal Agricultural University. A joint meeting with Cirencester Science and Technology Society. Please note that this is earlier in the month than our usual meeting and at a different venue.
Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Annual General Meeting followed by Alfred Williams and the Folk Songs of the Upper Thames
Martin Graebe
Alfred Williams was raised in the village of South Marston in Wiltshire and, though his
formal education ended at the age of 12, he became an admired poet and writer.
Between 1914 and 1916 he cycled 13,000 miles around the Upper Thames valley to
collect the words of nearly 800 songs. These included more than 170 from
Gloucestershire.
Talks are held at the Ashcroft Church, Ashcroft Road, Cirencester GL7 1RA unless indicated otherwise. (See the red dot in the adjacent map.)
Talks start promptly at 7:30pm.
