Events calendar - October 2014

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• "Woodbine Willie" Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy

  17th October 2014 - 26th October 2014 at St. Paul's Church

  Display of photographs and documents about Woodbine Willie - Revd. Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy - parish priest at St. Paul's, Worcester, who was awarded the Military Cross for...

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  Blue Plaque to honour 'Woodbine Willie'

  19th October 2014 at St. Paul's Church, Worcester

  The Reverend Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy was the parish vicar at St Paul’s Church in the city centre when war broke out in 1914. He became an Army Chaplain, and earned the...

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  Woodbine Willie - Poet and Padre

  25th October 2014 at St. Paul's Church

  The Reverend Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy was the vicar at St Paul’s in Worcester when war broke out in 1914. He volunteered to become an Army chaplain, and served on the...

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  In the Words of Worcestershire People

  25th October 2014 - 14th March 2015 at Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery

  Explore words and personal mementos of Worcestershire people, through letters, diaries and poems written during the First World War. This exhibition is part of a series of...

• Centenary of the Battle of Gheluvelt Seminar + Book Launch

  28th October 2014 at The Hive

  One third of the Worcestershire 2nd Battalion were lost at the Battle of Gheluvelt on 31st October 1914 which has an almost mythical status in the history of the regiment and...

• Sponsored Cycle Ride

  28th October 2014 at Gheluvelt Park

  A local History teacher is planning to ride from Worcester's Gheluvelt Park all the way to Gheluvelt, Belgium in 2014 to mark 100 years since the famous battle took place...

• Gheluvelt Remembrance

  31st October 2014 at Gheluvelt Park

  Activities, displays and commemoration marking the centenary of the Battle of Gheluvelt. The Battle of Gheluvelt on the 31st October 1914, was just one example of numerous...

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• Malvern Museum of Local History

  25th March 2014 - 31st October 2018 at Malvern Museum

  Malvern Museum has begun its programme of exhibitions and activities to commemorate the momentous years of the Great War as it affected the inhabitants of the Malvern area...

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• Back to Blighty

  1st July 2014 - 31st October 2015 at Avoncroft Museum

  An extended temporary exhibition using individual buildings to focus on life on the Home Front and the immediate post war society. One of the WWW100 trail events