Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • James Brazier, Treasurer since the inception of The WFA, standing down.
  • Roll of Honour - Six Veteran Members remembered

The Camera Returns (13) Outskirts of Mailly Maillet by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall 

Commander Samson and the Dunkirk Circus by John Jones

A 2nd/Lieutenant at War: Alexander Stanier by Sir Alexander Stanier with notes by Dr John Dixon

Behind the Lines: The Vets

'Mephisto' by P J Cobb 

Army Signals on the Western Front by Major General Ashton Wade  

  • Cable Laying
  • Wireless
  • Electric Lamp Signalling 

In the Trenches with the Lincolns

The Undertakers: 12th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers by Harry Fellows 

A Letter from a Nurse

The 56th Division: Another unusual formation 

The Home Front (22) The End of the Zeppelins

'Cricketers Died' by Colin McIntyre

Dugouts: The Tunnelling Companies after 'Passchendaele' September 1917-April 1918 by Aleks A M Deseyne

Our Hearts That Died by B Cory Kilvert Jr

  • Captain Bleddyn Williams (1892-1916)

Percy Wyndham Lewis the War Writer and 'The Bull Gun' by Robert Edward Murray

What is an Artillery Brigade? by Ronald Clifton 

Letters from France: Corporal William Neale 

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • Howitzer
  • The Camera Returns (11) 
  • Poetry

Garrison Library (First World War Books reviewed by Bob Wyatt unless otherwise stated)

  • Honour Satisfied. A Dorset Rifleman at War 1916-1918 by Anthony Bird (Ed.) 
  • Unversed in Arms. A Subaltern on the Western Front by Anthony Bird
  • The Wet Flanders Plain by Henry Williamson
  • Norfolk & Suffolk in the Great War by Gerald Gliddon (Ed.)
  • General Wrangel (1878-1929) by Alexis Wrangel
  • Chronicle of the First World War Vol I by Ronald Gray and Christopher Argyle (reviewed by Bob Butcher)
  • Suez - The Double War by Roy Fullick and Geoffrey Powell
  • Men, Mud and Memories by Susan Cox  (reviewed by Fred Wood)
  • Plumer. The Soldier's General by Geoffrey Powell (Reviewed by Gary Sheffield)
  • Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel (Reviewed by Gary Sheffield)
  • The Red Air Fighter by Manfred von Richthofen
  • A Tale of Two Captains by John Baynes and Hugh Maclean
  • Fallen in the Fight. Farnworth and Kearsley Men who died in the Great War 1914-1918 by Neil and Sue Richardson
  • The Righteous War by B S Barnes
  • Combat Report. The RAF and the Fall of France by Kate Caffrey

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