Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • Stand To! Covers in colour to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme

  • John Terraine’s 75th celebrated

  • Duke Albrecht of Bavaria

  • Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery
  • Roll of Honour: death of veterans

Tributes to John Terraine F R Hist S, Hon. Fellow, Keble College, Oxford and Honorary President of The Western Front Association 

War Art: Punch Cartoon dated 17 March 1915 by George Belcher R.A. 1875-1947 by David Cohen 

Donald Hankey A Student in Arms by Ross Davies

'Mar Chuimmneachan Air NA Gaisgeach Nach Maireann': A Memorial to the Heroes That Are No More' A special case by Tom Tulloch-Marshall

Sir Douglas Haig's Diary and Despatches. Dating and Censorship by John Hussey

Contacts with troops: Commanders and Staffs in the First World War by Captain Cyril Falls

Postcards. The 'Bliss' Series by A J Peacock

A "New' Poet by Helen McPhail 

Members' Research 

  • A straight bat at first crease: Arthur Collins by John Gillis
  • William Ellam's memoirs by Jeanne and Tony Knight 
  • Private Orrell Taylor Duerdon by Mark Smith 

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • Kitchener's Monument
  • Italian Front
  • The Camera Returns (28)
  • Collapse of Imperial Germany
  • Vandalism and theft of cemetery registers

The Camera Returns (29): by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

  • A Serious Disappointment. The Battle of Aubers Ridge 1915 and the Munitions Scandal by Adrian Bristow 
  • A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919 Volume 7 The Curragh Incident and the Western Front 1914 by The Marquess of Anglesey
  • For Love of Regiment - A History of British Infantry by Charles Messenger
  • Holt's Maps and Guides: 
  • Major and Mrs Holts Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient.
  • Major and Mrs Holts Battle Map of the Somme
  • Major and Mrs Holts Battlefield Guide to the Somme 
  • Airmen Died in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Chris Hobson
  • Henry Williamson - Tarka and the Last Romantic by Anne Williamson 
  • The Golden Virgin by Henry Williamson
  • The Flower of Battle - British Fiction Writers of the First World War by Hugh Cecil
  • Bloody Red Taps by F Davies and G Maddocks
  • The Evolution of Victory. British Battles on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Andy Simpson (Reviewed by Garry Sheffield)
  • Men, Ideas and Tanks British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903-1939 by J P Harris
  • Responding to the Call. The Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at the Battle of Loos 1915 by John Chapman
  • The Student Soldiers (Aberdeen) by John McConachie
  • AIF Epitaphs of World War One by John Laffin
  • Responding to the Call: the Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at the Battle of Loos 1915 by John Chapman et al. (Reviewed by Gary Sheffield)
  • The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant by R A Baumgartner
  • Handbook of the French Army 1914
  • Battlebags - British Airships of the First World War by Ces Mowthorpe
  • Handbook of the Italian Army 1913
  • Imperial War Museum Review by Janet Mihell and Peter Simkins
  • Military Operations - France and Belgium 1918 Volume II by James Edmonds
  • Military Operations - France and Belgium 1918 Volume I Appendicies by James Edmonds
  • Military Operations - France and Belgium 1918 Volume III by James Edmonds
  • Military Operations - Togoland and the Cameroons 1914-1916 by Brig. Gen F S Moberly
  • Shadows Cast. A Walking Journey. Albert to Thiepval by I C & D Pearson
  • The Canvas Falcons. The Men and Planes of World War I by Stephen Longhurst
  • Immingham’s War Dead Remembered. What Happened to Joe? By Mary Leitch
  • Organised Against Fire (The London Fire Brigade) by W F Hickin

 

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