Previous Drummond Lectures & Speakers
Lieutenant General
Sir Alexander Drummond
KBE CB KStJ MRCS LRCP FRCS DLO
1979 Lt Gen Sir A Drummond - Military Medicine
1980 Air Cdre H Couzens - The RAF 1923-1956
1981 Capt K J Douglas-Morris RN - The RN LS&GC Medal
1982 Lt Col A M McFarlane - Bengal Horse Artillery
1983 Roger Perkins - Research
1984 Mrs Rose Coombs - Before Endeavour Fades
1985 Maj A J Sudlow - The London Regiment
1986 Ian McInnes - Meritorius Service Medal
1987 Maj R C McDuell - Joys, frustrations of research
1988 Anthony Farrington - The India Office Records
1989 Dr A Llewellyn-Lloyd - Travels in India
1990 W M Fevyer - Some Medals to eccentrics, cads and eminent soldiers
1991 Denzil Cooper - The Battle of Arnhem
1992 Mrs Dolly Gardner - Espionage
1993 Norman Gooding - Orders of St John
1994 Wg Cdr J Routledge - RAF Gallantry Groups
1995 Mrs Ann Clayton - The double VC
1996 Graham Sacker - The Machine Gun Corps
1997 Air Cdre G Pitchfork - RAF Gallantry during WW II
1998 Simon Peaple - Last 100 days of the Great War - 46th Division
1999 Dr John Cruickshank - The Battle of Albuhera
2000 John Wright - A Medallic Passage to India
2001 Laurie Milner - Pals 1914-18
2002 Dr J M Bourne - VCs to the BEF 1914-18
2003 Mick Wilks - The Defence of Britain during WWII
2004 Lt Col A Taylor - The Herefordshire Regiment
2005 Laurie Milner - El Alamein
2006 Chris Hill - Ashanti Campaign
2007 John Mulholland - Coury VC
2008 David Rowland - Amelie's Boys - The Flying McCuddens
2009 Bob Rankin - British Legion Czechoslovakian Volunteer Police
2010 Lt Col John Starling - 'No Labour No Battle' - The Labour Corps in World War 1
2011 Peter Starling - Medical Services
2012 Mr M K H Crumplin - The Bloody Fields of Waterloo
2013 John Wilson Esq - Gallantry at Sea
2014 Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork MBE FRAes - The Royal Air Force in Iraq 1915-2008.
2015 Steven Lewis - Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
2016 Phil McDermott - The Elizabeth Cross
2017 Dr John Bourne - Western Front Generals of the First World War
2018 Mick Atkinson - Waterloo
2019 Simon Peaple - One Hundred Years Post Versaille
2020 Cancelled due to Coronavirus
2021 Nicola Nash - Battlefield Identification of Casualties
2022 Pete Starling MA DHMSA FRHistS - Two Doctors and Four VCs (held in March 2023)
2023 Dr Derek Clayton BA MA PhD - Baptism of Fire: 21st Division at the Battle of Loos
2024 Peter Huxford - Was It The Suffragettes 'Wot won it'? Womewn and the Vote 1867-1928
1980 Air Cdre H Couzens - The RAF 1923-1956
1981 Capt K J Douglas-Morris RN - The RN LS&GC Medal
1982 Lt Col A M McFarlane - Bengal Horse Artillery
1983 Roger Perkins - Research
1984 Mrs Rose Coombs - Before Endeavour Fades
1985 Maj A J Sudlow - The London Regiment
1986 Ian McInnes - Meritorius Service Medal
1987 Maj R C McDuell - Joys, frustrations of research
1988 Anthony Farrington - The India Office Records
1989 Dr A Llewellyn-Lloyd - Travels in India
1990 W M Fevyer - Some Medals to eccentrics, cads and eminent soldiers
1991 Denzil Cooper - The Battle of Arnhem
1992 Mrs Dolly Gardner - Espionage
1993 Norman Gooding - Orders of St John
1994 Wg Cdr J Routledge - RAF Gallantry Groups
1995 Mrs Ann Clayton - The double VC
1996 Graham Sacker - The Machine Gun Corps
1997 Air Cdre G Pitchfork - RAF Gallantry during WW II
1998 Simon Peaple - Last 100 days of the Great War - 46th Division
1999 Dr John Cruickshank - The Battle of Albuhera
2000 John Wright - A Medallic Passage to India
2001 Laurie Milner - Pals 1914-18
2002 Dr J M Bourne - VCs to the BEF 1914-18
2003 Mick Wilks - The Defence of Britain during WWII
2004 Lt Col A Taylor - The Herefordshire Regiment
2005 Laurie Milner - El Alamein
2006 Chris Hill - Ashanti Campaign
2007 John Mulholland - Coury VC
2008 David Rowland - Amelie's Boys - The Flying McCuddens
2009 Bob Rankin - British Legion Czechoslovakian Volunteer Police
2010 Lt Col John Starling - 'No Labour No Battle' - The Labour Corps in World War 1
2011 Peter Starling - Medical Services
2012 Mr M K H Crumplin - The Bloody Fields of Waterloo
2013 John Wilson Esq - Gallantry at Sea
2014 Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork MBE FRAes - The Royal Air Force in Iraq 1915-2008.
2015 Steven Lewis - Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland
2016 Phil McDermott - The Elizabeth Cross
2017 Dr John Bourne - Western Front Generals of the First World War
2018 Mick Atkinson - Waterloo
2019 Simon Peaple - One Hundred Years Post Versaille
2020 Cancelled due to Coronavirus
2021 Nicola Nash - Battlefield Identification of Casualties
2022 Pete Starling MA DHMSA FRHistS - Two Doctors and Four VCs (held in March 2023)
2023 Dr Derek Clayton BA MA PhD - Baptism of Fire: 21st Division at the Battle of Loos
2024 Peter Huxford - Was It The Suffragettes 'Wot won it'? Womewn and the Vote 1867-1928