Contents 

  • Communication Lines 2–6 
  • A Bridge Too Many on the Oise by Michael Carragher 7–11 
  • A Short Spell on Mudros and Helles by Barbara Meredith 12–18 
  • Another Lonely Anzac 1394 Private H V Meston 9th Battalion AIF by Paul Cobb 19–21 
  • The Camera Returns (102) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall 22–23 
  • A Fascination for Flora Along the Western Front by Dr James Wearn, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • 24–30 
  • Lieutenant Geoffrey Lloyd Eight Months as a Prisoner of War Interesting sidelights on the German Revolution by Andy Taylor 31–33 
  • The 29th Division The Origins of a Mythical Reputation? by David Griffiths 34–35 
  • The Last–Minute Rush to Create the BEF Senior Command in August 1914 How Sir William Robertson came to be appointed Quartermaster General to the BEF by Ross Beadle 36–38 
  • Sir Douglas Haig and the Introduction of the Trench Mortar 1914-1915 by John Mason Sneddon 39–44 
  • What did you say in the Great War, Bishop? Principles, Patriotism; Power and Pressure by Tom Scherb 45–49 

Garrison Library 50–IBC x16 Book Reviews

  • Victory at Gallipoli: The German–Ottoman Alliance in the First World War by Klaus Wolf (Translator for Tim Iredale)

  • The Russian Baltic Fleet in the Time of War and Revolution 1914 –1918: The Recollections of Admiral S N Timiryov

  • The First and Last of the Sheffield City Battalion by John Cornwell.

  • The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations Peter G Tsouras, Lt Colonel Retired.

  • Haig’s Tower of Strength. General Sir Edward Bulfin – Forgotten General by John Powell.

  • Fokker Dr1 Germany’s Famed Triplane in World War One by Mark C Wilkins.

  • In the Trenches: A Russian Woman Soldier’s Story of World War 1 by Tatian L Dubibskaya (ed) Lawrence M Kaplan

  • Tanks in the Great War 1914–1918 – The Development of Armoured Vehicles and Warfare by J F C Fuller.

  • Valour Beyond Measure – Captain Richard William Leslie Wain: VC The Tank Corps at Cambrai 1917 by Dr Jonathan Hicks

  • Faithful Fighters by Kate Imy.

  • Armoured Cruiser Cressy : Detailed in the original builders’ plans by Andrew Choong.

  • November 1918: The German Revolution by Robert Gerwarth.

  • Kildare The Irish Revolution 1912–23 by Seamus Cullen.

  • Flesh and Steel during the Great War. The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare by Michel Goya.

  • For what we have done: The first attack on Bellewaarde, 16 June 1915 by Michael R B McLaren.

  • Wilson’s War: Sir Henry Wilson’s Influence on British Military Policy in the Great War and its Aftermath by John Spencer.