Out Now! Stand To! No. 130

16 May 2023
St130 Cover

In Communications Lines, the introduction to Stand To!, editor Matthew Leonard talks football, more on machine gun tactics, the Greek contribution to the First World War, cordite production, and peace medals while introducing Gary Sheffield’s examination of Jay Winter’s The Day the Great War Ended: 24 July 1923.

 

Contents

Page 

Communication Lines 

2

The First Lionesses! The Army Pay Office Preston Ladies Football Team During The Great War by John Black

2–7

The Camera Returns (111) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

  8–10

Finding Nancy (the Springbok) by Dirk Danschutter

11–17

AIF Machine Gun Tactics at Pozières: July and August 1916 by Greg O’Reilly

18–26

Did Whisky Win The War? Acetone for Cordite MD by Derek Bird

27–34

Pershing in Retrospect by David T Zabecki

35–40

Fighting With The Greek ‘Johnnies’: British encounters with the Greek army on the Macedonian Front, 1918 by Jake Gasson

41–47

Peace Medals: Souvenirs of Peace Day 1919 by Giles Thomas Penman

48–52

Garrison Library

53- IBC 

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