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When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers’ Battalion in the Great War by Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp

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Haynes Publishing, Yeovil, £19.99 (price in 2011) 336pp, 87 ills, 3 appendices, bibliog, source notes, index. ISBN 978 1 84425 656 3  [This review first appeared in Stand To! No.90 December 2010/January 2011] Haynes Publishing - the extraordinary publisher of car maintenance manuals - Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp, football, the Great War - a s…


What's in a name? The story of Captain A M C McReady-Diarmid, a Cambrai VC - with Graham Adams

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Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady- Diarmid was an officer with the 17th (S) Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment when he was awarded his Victoria Cross for his actions over the night of 30 November/ 1 December 1917. He however was killed in action during this engagement and has no known resting place, his name appearing on the Cambrai Memorial to the Mi…