Chelsea Society Needs You
With our exhibition Chelsea
In the Great War coming up soon - the
2nd to the 15th June - we shall need a great
number of volunteers to man the desk for fourteen days. Many of you have already indicated on the
survey that you are willing to help and many more of you are on my list having
helped at previous events. We are
extremely grateful for all your support and I will be in touch with you
later. However if there are any
members reading this Newsletter who have not yet let us know they could help,
or who would be willing to confirm when they can help, could you please let me
know? My contact details are at the end
of this message.
I think you will find the
exhibition based on life in Chelsea between 1914 and 1918 particularly
interesting with some surprising activities in the Borough, for example not one
but two aircraft factories. In addition
we have readings from a fascinating diary of a Chelsea resident writing to her
newborn son, a talk by the author of a
critically acclaimed book Wounded:
From the Battlefield to Blighty, and the actual football kicked to launch
the offensive at the Battle of Loos by the men of the Irish Rifles in
1915. It was retrieved from the barbed
wire and brought back to regimental headquarters at the Duke of York’s. On 10th June it will be brought
back ‘home.
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