Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor) 

  • Planning for the Centenary
  • Gilbert the Philbert 

‘A Holocaust of Flame and Death’: Explosions at Achicourt - 8 April 1917 by Colin Taylor

They Played for Gloucester and Fought for Their Country: Gloucester Rugby Clubs in the First World War by Martin and Teresa Davies

Supplies on the Western Front by Bob Butcher

The Mystery of the Map by Simon Weston

Vimy Subways and Grange Tunnel : A Self-Guided Tour by Phillip Robinson and Nigel Cave

The Camera Returns (81) Essex Farm Cemetery by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

One Soldier Amongst Many - the Experiences of a 5th Northants Pioneer on the Arras Front in 1917 by Ed Standton

Daredevils, Dog Collars and Dioceses. What Did You Do in the Great War Bishop? By Tom Scherb

August 2014 Official Centenary National Commemoration

Tuesday 12 August 2014 Eve of the Memorial Flight Commemorative Journey to France

Wednesday 13 August 2014 Centenary Memorial Flight

Service of Remembrance: Commemoration of the Arrival of the BEF in France in August 1914

August 2014 Official Centenary National Commemoration of the Arrival of the BEF in France in August 1914

Givenchy 15 June 1915 - An Analysis of One Battalion’s Experience in a Failed Attack on the Western Front by John Sly

War Art by David and Judith Cohen. A 1/10 Scale Model of a First World War British 60-Pounder Breech Loading Mark I Field Gun, built by the Elswick Ordnance Company

Captain James Leslie (Jack) Buckman, 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment - in life and death by Michael Durey

Great War Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force Burials Associated with Castle Bromwich Aerodrome, Birmingham (Part II) by Christopher John

  • Air Mechanic 2nd Class Sidney Bernard Larkin - Australian Flying Corps
  • Second Lieutenant Cyril Thornton - Royal Flying Corps 
  • Second Lieutenant Granville Vernon Lewes - Royal Flying Corps 
  • Second Lieutenant Robert Francis Christie - Royal Flying Corps
  • Second Lieutenant Reginald Douglas Hamilton - Royal Flying Corps

Garrison Library (World War I Book Reviews)

  • Air and Sea Power in World War I: Combat and Experience in the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy by Maryam Philpott
  • Irish Aviators of the Great War: Volume I Irish Aces by Joe Gleason
  • Harry's War: The Great War Diary of Harry Drinkwater by Jon Cooksey and David Griffiths (Eds.) 
  • 17th Manchesters. A History of the Battalion and the Men who Served with it in the Great War by John Hartley
  • Listening to Ludendorf. A Clandestine Belgian Military Wireless Station behind German Lines 1915-1919 by Paul Goldschmidt
  • Scarce Heard Amid the Guns: The Experiences of a Gunner Officer in the First World War as Recorded in his Diary and Letters Home by John Potter
  • We Wunt Be Druv. The Royal Sussex Regiment on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Hugh Miller 
  • And They Loved Not Their Lives Unto Death. The History of Worstead and Westwick’s War Memorial and War Dead by Steve Smith
  • They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I by Gregory W. Ball 
  • Sorrow into Pride. The Story of a Staffordshire War Memorial (Elmore Green High School, Bloxwich) by Ken Wayman & Barry Cruchley
  • Ten Brave Men and True. The Victoria Cross Holders from the Borough of Tunbridge Wells by Richard Snow
  • Of Those We Loved. A Narrative 1914-1919 Remembered and Illustrated by I L 'Dick' Read

Short Notices

  • ‘Til the Boys Come Home. Great Rissington Soldiers by Clare Mayo
  • Dalwood Great War Memorial. Our Dalwood Heroes by Alison Morgan
  • A Hundred Years On. The Great War and Other Events on Cannock Chase by Christopher John
  • The Life and Death of a Field Artillery Subaltern on the Western Front by Keith Brain
  • The Lion and the Eagle. Anglo-German Naval Confrontation in the Imperial Era, Volume 1. The Protagonists 1815-1914 by David Gregory

 

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