024: Winter 1988

Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

Chairman's Christmas Message: David Cohen 

The End! To All Ranks of the Fourth Army 11 November 1918 General Rawlinson

The Camera Returns: Bourlon (6) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

The Canadian Corps Order of Battle compiled by Colonel Terry Cave, CBE

2nd Canadian Division Order of Battle 1915-1918

3rd Canadian Division Order of Battle 1916-1918

4th Canadian Division Order of Battle 1916-1918

Behind the Lines (10) The Red Caps 

Germany 1917. The 1987 Presidential Address delivered by the Honorary President John Terraine 

The Home Front (16) The Silver War Badge 1916-1919

One Man's War (5) by H B Rhead JP: 296th Field Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, TF, Royal Field Artillery

British Trench Mortars (2) The Medium Mortar

The Recall of Sir J French by Peter Bryant 

The Inventor of the Gas Mask: Captain Cluny Macpherson by Joy Cave 

With the Royal Welsh Fusiliers from the correspondence of H A Stott selected by Bob Wyatt

Obituary Air Commodore F M F 'Freddie' West, VC, CBE, MC

War Cards by Peter Arscott

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

• Casualty Lists
• War photographs
• Flying printers

War Art: 'Night Scene' painted in 1916 by Veteran Member Mr E G Williams

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

• Imperial Rearguard, Wars of the Empire 1918-1985 by L James
• The Test of Battle. The American Expeditionary Forces in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign by Paul F Braim
• Images of the Army. The Military in British Art 1815-1914 by J W M Hichberger 
• War Against War by E Friedrich 
• The Street Memorials of St Albans Abbey Parish by Alice Goodman 
• Hitler's Gladiator by Charles Messenger
• Narrow Gauge Railways by H Household  
• The Territorial Army 1907-1940 by Peter Dennis
• Morale. A Study of men and courage. The Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle 1915 by John Baynes
• The Killing Ground. The British Army. The Western Front and the emergence of modern warfare 1900-1918 by Tim Travers
• The Pictorial History of the World War I by G D Sheffield
• Staff Officer. The diaries of Lord Moyne 1914-1918 by Brian Bond and Simon Robbins
• Capitalism at War. Industrial Policy and Bureaucracy in France 1914-1918 by J Godfrey  
• Australians on the Somme Pozieres by Peter Charlton
• A New Excaliber. The development of the Tank 1909-39 by A J Smithers
• The Home Counties Medical Services of the Territorial Army 1859-1922 by R L Barrett-Cross
• World War I in Post Cards by John Laffin 
• A Stillness Heard Round the World. The end of the Great War November 1918 by Stanley Weintraub
• France, Soldiers and Africa by A Clayton
• Recipients of Bars to the Military Cross 1916-1920 by J V Webb
• Destination Dardanelles. The story of HMS E7 by M Wilson
• ‘Stand To.’ A Diary of the Trenches 1915-1918 by Captain F C Hitchcock, MC
• World War I in Post Cards by John Laffin
• A Stillness Hear Round the World. The end of the Great War November 1918 by Stanley Weintraub
• France, Soldiers and Africa by A Clayton

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