PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS

Contains the meetings of all B.M.S.G.H branches including Bromsgrove Branch.

"Approaching Bromsgrove Meetings" 

The Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry –

Bromsgrove Branch

Our next meeting will be held on

Tuesday 9th March at 7.45 p.m.

The History of the War Graves Commission”

by Geoff Longmore

Chairman of Wolverhampton branch Western Front Association

Started during the early part of the First World War at the instigation of

Sir Fabian Ware, the Graves Registration Commission became the

Imperial War Graves Commission by Royal Charter in 1917.

Today as The Commonwealth War Graves Commission it cares for the graves and

memorials to British and Commonwealth war dead around the globe.

Geoff Longmore will tell us some of its history and how it has

evolved over ninety plus years.

(Geoff was scheduled to come to Bromsgrove in February 2009 but we were snowed out!)

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This event will take place at

Bromsgrove Methodist Centre, 19, Stratford Road, Bromsgrove, B60 1AS.

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Our April meeting on Tuesday 13th will be our short AGM followed by

own member Mike Fisher with his famous:

Travelling Magic Lantern Show - Pictures of Worcestershire”

A tour of the highways, byways, towns, villages and buildings

of Worcestershire as in times gone by.

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