Between the Lines - July/September 2026

1 July 2026

Branch Newsletter Number 88

In this edition we have articles as follows:

Valmai Holt with her MBE

Another Memento of the Great War

Letter to the Editor

A selection of WW1 German emergency coins

A selection of WW1 continental emergency bank notes

German WW1 Patriotic ‘I Gave Gold for Iron’ items

German WW1 Patriotic Mortars and Pestles

Cemeteries that may have passed you by (Part Two)

Machine Gun Corps - a Margate connection (Lt G. Doughty MC)

Military Medal Citation - Sgt A. M. Arden MM, Machine Gun Corps

Machine Gun Corps Memorabilia

London’s Machine Gun Corps Memorials

Portsmouth War Memorial - Machine Gunners

Pte William Pryor Jay, 1/5th Buffs and India 1915 - Part 1

Three postcards sent home by a military convalescent

German Gotha shot down over Margate - 22nd August 1917