Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

Home Front (8) Land Army: The Woman’s Land Army / Women’s Forestry Corps and Forage Corps (Drawing: P T Scott Collection

My Experiences in the Great War by Alec Stringer: London Scottish (Gordon Highlanders) as told to James Brazier

The Agony of Loos by Don Cook - including an unpublished letter by Br-General D G M Campbell (Commanding 6th Cavalry Brigade, 1914-1916) giving his account of action from 26 to 29 September 1915

  • General Sir David Campbell GCB (1869-1936) 

Emil and Franz: pilot and observer in German Air Service by Richard Baumgartner

  • Oberleutnant Friedrich Ritter von Krausser CO Bavarian Schutzstaffel 23
  • Vizefeld Theor Weidner, pilot Schutzstaffel 23

Gas Warfare. The British Defensive Measures: The Second Battle of Ypres by Simon Jones by Simon Jones - Part I: The Second Battle of Ypres

Precautions against Asphyxiating Gases

The Indian Army Corps (Part II) by Colonel Terry Cave, CBE

Order of Battle of Divisions.

  • The Indian Army Corps.
  • The Indian Cavalry Corps
  • Their Divisions in France, 1914-1918 
  • 3rd (Lahore) Division
  • 7th (Meerut) Division
  • 1st Indian Cavalry Division
  • 4th Cavalry Division
  • 2nd Indian Cavalry Division
  • 5th Cavalry Division

The Lincoln Tank Group by R E Dryden

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

  • A Nation in Arms. A social study of the British Army in the First World War By Ian F W Beckett and Keith Simpson (Eds.)
  • Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and the Guilt of Germany. An essay in the pre-history of Appeasement by A Lentin
  • The Location of the British Army Records by Norman Holding
  • Petain. Hero or Traitor. The Untold Story by Herbert R Lottman
  • A Time To Leave the Ploughshare. A Gunner Remembers 1917-1918 by William Carr
  • Facing Total War: German Society 1914-1918 by Jurgen Kocka
  • The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 by C E W Bean
  • Gallipoli 1915: Pens, Pencils and Cameras at War by Peter H Liddle
  • Short Reports on Books:
  • Some Desperate Glory: The Diary of a Young Officer by Edwin Campion Vaughan
  • The Carlton Colville Chronicle by Canon R A Bignold
  • From Hell to the Himalayas by Colonel C F Hodgson
  • The King’s Shilling: The Life and times of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum by Richard Kellet
  • The Battle of the Scheldt by W Denis Whitaker & Shelagh Whitaker
  • Templer: Tiger of Malaya: The Life of Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer by John Cloake
  • Yes, Your Excellency by V E O Stevenson-Hamilton
  • Books We Need: Fortunino Matania - suggested by Bob Grundy

The Lewis Gun by Martin Pegler 

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • Multiple congratulations on the quality of Stand To!
  • Indian Corps VC
  • Field Punishment - its importance and relevance to any study of the First World War 
  • John Terraine and the 50th Division of 1918 and 19144

Intelligence Summary -

  • Roll of Honour - Nine veteran members remembered
  • IWM News
  • Labour Corps

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