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Next meeting

Tuesday February 10th 2026

Trooper Potts VC

Richard Bennett DL

Brig Tony Verey QVRM TD DL

Capt Andrew French

Three members of the Trooper Potts VC Memorial Trust will explain why Fred VC became known as ‘The Hero with the Shovel’ for his deeds on the battlefield of Gallipoli in August 1915. He is commemorated in a statue in The Forbury, Reading, alongside a Roll of Honour of 426 other Berkshire Yeomen

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December meeting report

Christmas Party - Message on a Postcard
Peter Delaney

9th December 2025

December is the time for the society Christmas Party, when the society secretary showed some postcards from the society archive - this time looking as much at the messages as the pictures - and revealing who the mystery recipient of many of them was

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New 'From the archive' item added

This item from the archive looks back to the early 1940s, when the village had a wartime group of Local Defence Volunteers - otherwise known as the Home Guard - or "Dad's Army"

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November meeting report

The Last Horse Dealers in Reading: Oliver Dixon

Caroline Piller

11 November 2025

A presentation by local historian and author Caroline Piller about the history of horse dealers in Reading in the 19th and early 20th century, including the Irishman, Oliver Dixon

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