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SUMMARY:Friday Morning Talks: The Jewish Contribution to the Royal Flying Corps during WW1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another Friday Morning Talk\, commemorating the Jewish contribution to the RFC during WW1\, by Dr Ronnie Fraser. \nThis timely talk\, taking place just before Armistice Day\, will explore the involvement of British Jews with the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. \nOf the 50\,000 Jews who served in the British Armed Forces\, approximately 2000 Jews served with the RFC and RNAS. \nThe Jewish experience of the war was both glorious and inglorious\, full of bravery and the mundane\, and\, in common with other communities within British society\, suffered the loss of many of their young men. \nBy Dr Ronnie Fraser \n \nAbout Dr Ronnie Fraser \nDr Ronnie Fraser is a researcher for the website ‘British Jews in the First World War – We Were There Too’. \n  \nIncluded in Museum admission or Annual Membership. \nReserve Your Place
URL:https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/friday-morning-talks-the-jewish-contribution-to-the-royal-flying-corps-during-ww1/
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SUMMARY:Friday Morning Talks: James Nicolson VC
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk from Jim Nicolson\, whose uncle\, James Nicolson\, was the only Fighter Command pilot in the whole of the Second World War to be awarded the Victoria Cross. \nThe talk will focus on James Nicolson’s early war experiences; the action which merited the award of the Victoria Cross; and then life for him and his wife after the award. \nBy Jim Nicolson \nAbout Jim Nicolson \nJim served for thirty years as a police officer\, serving most of his time in Soho\, Stoke Newington\, Hackney and Holloway\, before moving to Hertfordshire from where he retired in 2002\, as the Assistant Chief Constable. He then worked in Thurrock\, Essex\, for the local Council supervising the multi-agency response to drug and alcohol addiction; gang crime; modern day slavery; and domestic and sexual violence. He now chairs the Thurrock Safeguarding Adult Board. \nHe has been a keen student of military history\, particularly aviation and the Great War for many years and regularly takes groups of up to 50 people around the battlefields of the Somme. \nIncluded in Museum admission or Annual Membership. \nReserve Your Place
URL:https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/friday-morning-talks-james-nicolson-vc/
CATEGORIES:Friday Morning Talks
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