The 100 Days Campaign and Armistice

6^th NOVEMBER 2018

Loch Leven Community Library

Join in for an enlightening, thought-provoking and engaging , illustrated talk with retired Colonel Andy Middlemiss, as he talks about ‘The 100 Days Campaign’

>The Hundred Days Campaign was the final period of the First World War during which the Allies launched a huge counter offensive against the >Central Powers> on the Western Front from 8 August to 11 November 1918, beginning with theBattle of Amiens.

>In some of the most bitter fighting of the entire war, the Germans were pushed out of France to retreat beyond the Hindenberg Line. This would  bring the Great War to a close with the Armistice being  signed at 11am on the 11>th> month in 1918. We will also hear the story of how how a young 23 year old from Wigtown won the Victoria Cross, but never lived to hear that news.

>Andy was in the Kings Own Scottish Borderers for 33 years, serving all over the world, including 3 Far East tours in Malaysia and Borneo. He was an instructor at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, CO in Edinburgh, and did several Ireland operational tours, a 6 months operational tour in Belize, and 3 tours in Germany during the Cold War.

>Andy has also worked as a volunteer, for the Perth and Kinross Branch of SSAFA for the last 15 years, a charity helping serving and ex-serving members of the armed forces and their families in a wide variety of ways. (www.ssafa.org.uk)

>Thursday 6th November

>19.15 - 20.15

>Booking Essential - £5 Per Ticket

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