Events

"National Coastwatch Institute" (NCI)

 Volunteers called watchkeepers provide the eyes and ears along the coast, monitoring radio channels 
and providing a listening watch in poor visibility. Dick will talk about how NCI Felixstowe works.

"The Western Front WW1"

 The public perception of WW1 soldiers is that they stood in trenches during their 
tour of duty  on the front line. But with artillery accounting for 70% to 80% of
casualties,  most soldiers after the dawn rollcall went underground for safety,
 either in bunkers or deeper in tunnels and caves. Whilst underground they wrote
their  names and messages on the walls. For thirty years I have been
a member of the Durand Group. Our prime mission is to find and neutralise
massive unexploded mine charges still viable in tunnels stretching across
no mans land in northern France. In doing so we find a wealth of graffiti
never been seen since the end of the war,  and sometimes we are able
to trace living relatives of the soldiers that wrote their names.