017: Summer 1986

Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

Some tributes: Lieutenant-General Sir John Glubb KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC Patron of the Western Front Association. Obituary reprinted from The Times 

• A Personal Memory. Air Commodore R H S Spaight
• A Tribute by Colonel Terry Cave 
• Farewell to Sir John Glubb by John Giles

'Did the rations in the dark': Extracts from the 1916 Diary of Q.M.S. W.R.Rickets edited by Don Cook

Q744 : George Ashurst by R B Grundy - Men of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers fixing bayonets in the trenches opposite Beaumont Hammel Maps of the Great War at the P.R.O (The Camera Returns) by R B 'Bob' Grundy

• Remembered by Corporal George Ashurst, 1st Lancashire Fusiliers
• Standing on the exact spot where the photograph was taken
• Acknowledgements to Dr A J Peacock and Dr. S Badsey

Maps of the Great War at The P.R.O. by I Mumford (lately principal Map Research Officer MOD)

In the Furnace of Verdun by Karl Heimgartner translated and edited by R A Bauggartner

Craven's Part in the Great War by William Turner 

On the Somme: Behind the German Lines - Gommecourt Chateau, Pozieres, Bazentine le Petit, Combles. 

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed) by 'Obturator'

• Holt's Battlefield Guides by T & V Holt
• The 'Accrington Pals' The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington). East Lancashire Regiment, A Pictorial History by William Turner
• The Poisonous Cloud. Chemical Warfare in the First World War by L F Haber
• Silvertown by Michael Paris
• The Great War and the French People by Jean-Jacques Becker
• Captain Stormont Gibbs: From the Somme to the Armistice edited by Richard Devonald-Lewis 
•  by L F Haber
• The Long March. The Story of 'The Devils Own' B/210 (Burnley) Battery, Royal Field Artillery by Jack Horsfall 
• The Diary of the World War I Cavalry Officer by Br General Sir Archibald Home 
• Longueval by Ian Uys
• From the Somme to the Armistice by Capt Stormont Gibbs 
• With a Machine Gun to Cambrai by George Coppard
• To Win a War 1918. The Year of Victory by John Terraine  
• The Middle Part of Fortunes: Somme and Ancre 1916 by Frederick Manning
• The Somme Then and Now by John Giles 
• The Great War and the British People by J M Winter 
• Old Battles and New Defences by Corelli Barnett et al 
• Stars in a Dark Night. The Letters of Ivor Gurney: 2/5 Gloucesters 
• Finding out about Fighting in World War I by Stephen Hoare
• History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Order of Battle of Divisions I - The Regular British Divsions
• Attack. An Infantry subalterns impressions of 1 July 1916 by Edward Liveing

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Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

• The Battle of Arras
• Statistics
• Rigle Grenades
• Haig's Headquarters when C in C by John Terraine

Intelligence Summary. Roll of Honour - deaths of veteran members

• IWM News - Marking the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme
• 1982 Memorial Stone at Tower Hamlets 
• Roll of Honour - 18 Veteran Members Remembered

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