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Stand To! No.1 to No.132 Full Contents Listing

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Stand To! 1-131 Content Stand To 1 Spring 1981 Editorial Notes (Peter T. Scott) Serving members of the Western Front Association Early Days, New Paths and Acknowledgements Inaugural Meeting: John Terraine's Address. Historian John Terraine berates those who indulge in ‘purely tragic pilgrimages to the Western Front’. The Loving Care of the…

1 December 1915 : Pte James Joseph Tibbo

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James was the second son of Richard Tibbo (a labourer) and his mother Mary Ann daughter of Richard Roach. This lived at 7 Lime Street, St Johns, Newfoundland. James was educated at St Patrick's Hall and Holy Cross Christian Brothers’ Schools. A seaman, James joined the Newfoundland Regiment, 13 January 1915. James left for England 20 M…

Children at War 1914–1918 by Vivien Newman

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£14.99, Pen and Sword, Barnsley 2019. 176pp, soft covers, 50 ills. incl. endnotes, bibliography and index. Also available as Kindle edition. ISBN: 9781473821071 This anthology of children’s remembrance and later writing on the Great War is wider ranging than the last I reviewed in Stand To! some two years ago. This covers all the warring nati…

ONLINE: Two sides of the same coin: the Newfoundlanders and Maoris at Gallipoli with Ian Binnie and Vincent Gray

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When the First World War broke out Newfoundland and Maoris enthusiastically signed up to serve. Many shared the same belief: that military service would bring favourable recognition to their country or people. Thinking they were going to fight the Germans, the first contingents served in Gallipoli instead. Ian and Vince will outline the political c…