Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • Previous Stand To! Editor Tony Farquharson
  • 80th Anniversary since the outbreak of the Great War
  • Roll of Honour - Three Veteran Members remembered

War Art 'How Todger Jones Won the VC' by Stanley L Wood: David Cohen

Garrison Library: 1915 The Death of Innocence by Lyn Macdonald

WFA Meetings and Tours

The 'Old Contemptibles' by John Terraine 

"Diggers in Strife" The Australian Military Prison, Lewes, Sussex 1917-1919 by Paul Cobb 

Australia in the Great War 

Some Further Notes on Army Organisation by Bob Butcher and Terry Cave 

  • Personnel - Officers
  • Personnel - Other Ranks 
  • The Gunners
  • Machine Guns
  • Tanks
  • Gas
  • Mortars
  • Cavalry 
  • The Royal Engineers
  • Brigades

Garrison Library (book review): Somme: Beaumont Hamel by Nigel Cave

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor) 

  • Halifax Pals

Mr Marpole and the Army of Wales: Recruitment Drive in Canada by John Richards 

The Camera Returns (23) Bank of the Scarpe at Blangy 

The Seizure of the German Cameroons in 1914-1916 by Louis Ackroyd

Western Front Myths: That the French demanded rent for the trenches held by the British Army

WFA Poets

The Great War Distinction in Dress for the Wounded by Ray Westlake 

The Story Behind the Marsden-Smedley Memorial by Victor Piuk

Harold Chapin: A Drama in Four Acts by Pete Starling 

Garrison Library (First World War Book Reviews)

  • Officers who Died in the Service of the Royal Navy by S D and K J B Jarvis
  • The Camel File by Ray Sturtevant and Gordon Page
  • Sniping in France by H Heskith-Pritchard
  • Official History of the Great War Military Operations France and Belgium 1917 Volume I Appendices by Sir James Edmonds (series editor)
  • British Battalions on the Somme by Ray Westlake
  • The Fighting Nation by A J Smithers
  • Handbook of the Austro-Hungarian Army in War, June 1918 by War Office
  • The Accrington Pals by William Turner
  • Cotton Town Comrades. The Story of the Oldham Pals Battalion 1914-1919 by K W Mitchinson
  • In the Teeth of the Wind by C P O Bartlett
  • The Accrington Pals Remembered. A Guide to their Resting Places and Memorials by William Turner 

 

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