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On This Day

14

Nov
2016

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 14 November 1916

On 14, Nov 2016 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Mail

Tuesday 14 November 1916

MILITARY LECTURES IN BIRMINGHAM.

A largely-attended meeting of officers of the Warwickshire Cadet Infantry Brigade took place last night, when Professor Spencer Wilkinson, who occupies the chair of Military History at Oxford, delivered a lecture on “The Officer – What He Should Be.” Colonel W. R. Ludlow, C.B., County Commandant of Cadets, presided. This, the first of a series of lectures, was a great success. The next lecture, on Friday, is by Captain Sidney Davis, D.S.O., on “Trench Mortar Work on the Somme.” Captain Davis, a Birmingham man, was awarded his decoration for gallant work at the front in command of a trench mortar battery.