Operation Market Garden Lecture Day
Saturday 5th October 2024
Doors open at 10:00hrs for 10:20 start -16:30hrs
At Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life (in Carlisle Castle)
Tickets: £25.00 including lunch
Join us at the Museum for a full day of lectures with four expert speakers exploring different aspects of Operation Market Garden. The day includes lunch, refreshments and free entry to the Museum and our current Arnhem 80: The Aftermath and The Legacy 1944-2024 exhibition.
This event is part of our Arnhem 80 programme to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem.
- ‘Off at Last’: Creating Identity and Cohesion in 7 KOSB prior to Operation MARKET GARDEN
From Home Defence to Airborne: A consideration of the factors that contributed to the battlefield performance of the only Territorial battalion at Arnhem.
Peter McCutcheon & Gerry O’Neill – King’s Own Scottish Borderer’s Museum
- Nearer My God to Thee – the experience of Airborne Chaplains at Arnhem, September 1944
Dramatic stories of individuals and the multi-faceted work of the airborne chaplains using first-hand accounts and letters.
- “Questions, Questions” Interrogating men captured at Arnhem
What the questioning reveals about German attitudes to the War in Autumn 1944
Peter Green – Author & Editor of the Museum magazine
- Glorious Arnhem?
How Operation Market Garden has been depicted in the media since events of September 1944
Peter Collins – Museum Director, Staffordshire Regiment Museum.
Tickets £25 For information and tickets click here or phone 01228 532774
If you have any allergies, intolerances or specific dietary requirements please contact the Museum direct either by email: enquiries@cmoml.org or telephone: 01228 532774
