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Firestep magazine
Between 2002 and 2007 The London Branch of The Western Front Association published a series of 13 half-yearly magazines called 'Firestep'.
These were very professionally produced and contained excellently written articles from a large number of contributors. Now, these magazines are available for WFA members via our Searchable magazine archive.
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The first of these is numbered 'Volume 2, Number 2': this is because earlier issues of the magazine were in a much different format.
Although not stated in these magazines, the editorial and production was undertaken by Arthur Potton.
Volume 2, Number 2 contents:
Submarines stranded in Sussex 1919 and 1921 Giles Allen
Diary of a Grandson Ken Ellis
The Americans Norman Tree
The Child's Unfinished Slate Hilary Wheeler
London's Pioneer Battalions 1914-1919 KW (Bill) Mitchinson
The War on the German Home Front 1914-1918 Ian Passingham
Book Review: Pillars of Fire by Ian Passingham Charles Harvey
Londoners on the Firestep: Pte Frank Cotterill Arthur Potton
Letter to the Editor and Forthcoming Attractions
Volume 3, Number 1 contents:
The Re-instatement of the Royal Naval Division Memorial CLW Page
At The Back of The Front Michael Orr
HMS Euryalus and the Lancashire Landing Howard Mallinson
The Flanders Offensive 1917: Haig's Battle RW Bushaway
Londoners on the Firestep: Rifleman Sidney Walter Rush Arthur Potton
Tailpiece: "Every Little Helps" Leslie Graham
Volume 3, Number 2 contents:
The Battle of Jutland and the Jack Cornwell Legend Mark Connelly
Rowland Fielding and the Civil Service Rifles (1/15 London) Jonathan Walker
The Hull Pals: Oppy Wood 1917 Irene Progin
The Bird Man of Salonika: Paul Denys Montague Simon Moody
John Shaw Challenger Leslie Graham
Don't Mention the War Robin Paterson
How the High Wood Monument was Saved Stanley Simm Baldwin
Why Passchendaele? Gordon Corrigan
A Soldier of the London Regiment Remembered in Breconshire Ray Westlake
Volume 4, Number 1 contents:
Cemeteries and Memorials at Risk George Karger
Londoners on the Firestep: Third in a series. Private Claud Senecal: The Honourable Artillery Company Arthur Potton
Wartime Morale and Tradition in an Exclusive Territorial Battalion KW Mitchinson
Army Service Corps Caterpillar Tractors Lt Col (Retd) MHG Young late RCT
Reminiscences of 1914-18 War by CW Ragg Michael Orr
Tailpiece: "Delirious": Pte HM Hemsley, 3rd London General Hospital, September 1918
Volume 4, Number 2 contents:
Remembering Hilary Wheeler
Lieutenant Druce Robert Brandt, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade Joy Thomas
At the Front: The 1st Battalion of the HAC 1914-17 Michael Orr
London's War Memorial Heritage: An Introduction Maggie Goodall (Friends of War Memorials Conservation Officer)
The Bite of War's Reality: CS Jagger's "Letters from Home" Jonathan Black
Haig: Guilty by Association? Emma Baronenas
The Barnbow Canaries Anne Batchelor
Spare a Thought for the Munitionettes Leslie Graham
Volume 5, Number 1 contents:
Artillery and The Salient John Terraine
The Greatest Trench Raid of the War John Lee
To Bridge or not to Bridge Aedificator Pontium
The British Army and the Russian Jews Charles Messenger
The Lewis Gun Robert G Segel
Hythe Edward Croft
The Railway Operating Division (ROD) Royal Engineers Niall Ferguson
The Clearing Up Army Leslie Graham
RAF Northolt during the Great War Mark Bristow
Fat, Tea Leaves & Rabbit Skins Leslie Graham
Private Leonard Charles Bennett Rosemary Bennett
Voice from a War Grave George Sewell
Volume 5, Number 2 contents:
The Cenotaph Geoffrey Spencer
Some Reflections on the Capture of Thiepval, September 1916 Peter Simkins
A Personal Reflection on 1 July 1916 JM Bourne
Fort Douaumont at Verdun: Forerunner of the Maginot Line Christina von Holstein
General Sir Herbert Plumer and 'Passchendaele': A Reassessment Gerald Casey
Prudential Assurance Company WW1 War Memorial Pedro Gaspar
Book Review: The Sculpture of Gilbert Ledward by Catherine Moriarty Hilary Wheeler
Last Resting Place Rosemary Bennett
Volume 6, Number 1 contents:
The Civil Service Rifles in the Great War Arthur Dark
Nobody's Child Chris McCarthy
The Household Battalion John W Harvey
Irish Soldiers and World War 1: An Exploration of Betrayal Michael Moore
The Household Battalion 1916-1918: Appointment of the Commanding Officer Gerald William Harvey
The Nissen Hut and its Inventor Leslie Graham
"Oh Rats!" Elspeth Johnstone
No Man's Well David Paterson
Volume 6, Number 2 contents:
Irish Soldiers and World War 1: Decorated for Bravery or Shot at Dawn? Michael Moore
The First Battle of Britain: A Statistical Study Steven C Suddaby
"A much over-rated weapon": British Perceptions of the Heavy Machine Gun before 1914 Benjamin Smith
The Wordsmiths of War Elspeth Johnstone
24th Infantry Division War Memorial Battersea Park, London Pedro Gaspar
A Proper Bloody Lady! A Personal Memoir of Jill Knight Michael Forsyth
The Civil Service Rifles in the Great War: "All Bloody Gentlemen" Ian Passingham
Volume 7, Number 1 contents:
Seven British Actors who Served during the Great War Mark Bristow
The Army Service Corps in London 1914-1918 Lt Col Michael Young
The Recalled Reservist: Lance Corporal Nelson Newman 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers Arthur Potton
A Miscellany Leslie Graham
Volume 7, Number 2 contents:
The BEF's Signal Service before and during the Storming of the Hindenburg Line Michael Markham
Edith Cavell Memorial Nancy Treves Administrator at the War Memorials Trust
John James William Hayward: An Englishman Abroad John JW Coppen
Horses on The Western Front Elspeth Johnstone
Oberleutnant Karl Ludwig: Disaster at the Ziegelruckenstollen Dagmar Bohm
German Prisoners in the UK Rosemary Bennett
Volume 8, Number 1 contents:
A Man on the Spot: Brigadier-General RE Sugden CB CMG DSO and Bar Peter Simkins
Establishing London's Territorial County Associations KW Mitchinson
German Casualties in the War of 1914-1918: A Comment and a Plea John Hussey
Remembering the Great War in London: 31st May 2006 Ray Westlake
Somewhere in France: Philip Gibbs and 'the writing fellows on the run' 1914-15 Jonathan Walker
The 1914-18 War: A Horse War Graham Winton
Give a Man a Horse he can Ride Rupert Edward Inglis
Envoi: Wealdstone Memorial Detail
Volume 8, Number 2 contents:
The Ramblings of an Itinerant Military Historian Nigel Cave
The Hampstead Heavies John Ridler
The Rifle Brigade Memorial Nancy Treves Administrator at the War Memorials Trust
SS/14683 Private George Henry Gardner, Army Service Corps Pauline Mounsey and Rose Stallwood
4536 Private Thomas Godfrey 4th (City of London) Battalion (RF) Philippa Godfrey
Sir Eric Geddes and the British Expeditionary Force's Transportation Network 1916-18 Christopher Phillips
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