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Click to hear the latest interview with Mike Read of BBC Radio Berkshire (or click on picture):

USA born Victor Nicholson is the grandson of Lt Colonel E Hills Nicholson and will be visiting Wokingham in March 2015. Over the past few years, we have been in correspondence with a number of the descendants of Wokingham’s fallen … Continue reading →

Barkham Remembers Barkham Parish Council is recognising the sacrifices of local men and centenary of the outbreak of WWI by joining with Wokingham Town Council in their Wokingham Remembers activities including the borough-wide Heritage Memorial Trail which includes research on … Continue reading →

In 1989, I began my own journey of tracing the Churcher family tree. I was eventually to be introduced to Minnie Maryan who was approaching her 100th birthday. Minnie’s life had been overwhelmed by two world wars. She lost her … Continue reading →

In this second interview, Sarah Huxford and Mike Churcher talks to BBC’s Mike Read about the emergence of the symbols of Remembrance and visiting the war graves on the Western Front. Also discussed is the recent publication of Richard Van … Continue reading →

This year’s Remembrance Day will have a special significance as it is the centenary year of the start of the Great War. Wokingham Remembers will be discussing the changing attitudes to remembrance on BBC Radio Berkshire, on the 3rd November … Continue reading →

‘Bracknell’s Great War’ By Andrew Radgick Andrew Radgick, History Officer of The Bracknell Forest Society, has spent four years researching the local men listed on the War Memorials across Bracknell Forest Borough. He is giving a series of talks to … Continue reading →

Andrew Radgick is Chairman of Bracknell Forest Society and a great friend to the Wokingham Remembers project. I thought it would be interesting to hear at first hand the Centenary Commemoration from a German perspective. Andrew provides a very amusing … Continue reading →

On the 13th September 2014, Wokingham Remembers was invited to discuss its findings since its launch in 2011. The stories of three men were told with the perspective of ‘what happened next’; i.e. how their descendants or existing Battalions were … Continue reading →