We are delighted to announce the publication of Stand To! No.131

24 August 2023

Stand To 131

Contents

Page

Editor’s Introduction

2

AIF Machine Gun Tactics – Bullecourt 1917 by Greg O’Reilly

2–9

The Camera Returns (112) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

10–11

Success and Failure XIII Corps and VIII Corps 1 July 1916: An artillery perspective by Richard Smith 

12-19 

A Coalition of Dissenting Voices:  The significance of dissent and opposition on the home front during the First World War by Christopher Price 

20-25

Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett: America’s best senior commander of the Great War by David Zabecki 

26-31 

Budding Bairnsfather, Blighty Magazine and Cheery Tommy Atkins by Chris Smith

32-36 

Sharing the Burden: Arguments relating to the taking over of more frontline by the British from the French. Some examples from the early stages of the war by James Benn 

37-42

The Winning and Losing of the Great War at Sea and the Feeding of Nations by Thomas Scotland 

43-48 

‘I will always cherish the kindly thoughts’ Salford’s Civic Reception for Ex–Servicemen in 1920 by Steven Illingworth

49-51

Garrison Library 

52-56

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