Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • Remembering an Unknown Soldier under the Menin Gate
  • Roll of Honour - Six Veteran Members remembered

War Art: 'The Care of the Wounded Horses in Northern France' by Fortunino Matania by David Cohen

The Tomb of The Unknown Australian Soldier by Patricia Johnson 

The Camera Returns (26) St Julien, Steenbeck by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy

Ypres Raid: 7 April 1917 by Matthew Richardson 

Mounted Cyclists & Cyclist Divisions TF by Terry Cave 

London's Saturday Night Soldiers: The London Regiment in Peace and War 1908 - 1918 by Paul Reed 

The Story Behind a Cemetery Headstone by Elizabeth Hudson 

The Accident to the Tyndareus, 6 February 1917 by Ray Westlake 

Additional note on the Garua Action, 1914 

Communications Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • NOT the Western Front (again)
  • An Australian School Project
  • Non-Regulation Badges
  • Film and the Great War
  • Old Contemptibles

Rank Insignia: German Army, 1914-1918 by Ronald Clifton 

Return from Vienna: Beatrice Kelsey by J E M de Quidt

Capt. H. Ackroyd VC MC RAMC (1877-1917) by his great-grandson Edward F Malet de Carteret

'Good' Poetry by Helen McPhail 

  • Rupert Brooke
  • Charles Sorley 

Home Front (30)

  • Canadian Field Comforts on Salisbury Plain

Observation Post

  • Theatre: Dusky Warriors
  • Cinema: Legends of the Fall

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

With a Theatre and Cinema Review ('Dusky Warriors' and 'Legends of the Fall')

  • Pyramids and Poppies: The First SA Infantry Brigade in Libya, France and Flanders 1915-1919 by Peter A Digby
  • Imperial War Museum Film Catalogue, Vol.1. The First World War Archive by Roger Smith (Ed.)
  • Pill Boxes on the Western Front. A  Guide to Design, Construction and use of Concrete Pill Boxes by Peter Oldham
  • We Who Knew; the Journal of an Infantry Subaltern During the Great War by M Cooper (Ed.) 
  • A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919 by The Marquess of Anglesey
  • Forgotten Divisions. The First World War from both sides of No Man's Land by John Fox 
  • Where are the Lads of the Village tonight? The Minshull Vernon War Memorial, Cheshire by Joy Brotherson
  • Graf Spee's Raiders - Challenge to the Royal Navy 1914-1915 by Keith Yates
  • The Mobb's Own - the 7th Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment 1914-1918 by David Woodall
  • Garside's War; Memoirs of Bernard Garside F R Hist.S (1898-1963) 
  • Before Endeavours Fade. A Guide to the Battlefields of the First World War by Rose E Coombs MBE
  • Christmas Truce - The Western Front December 1914 by M Brown and S Seaton
  • Surrender Be Damned - A History of the 1/1st Battalion the Monmouthshire Regiment 1914-1918 by Les Hughes & John Dixon
  • The Mobb’s Own - the 7th Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment 1914-1918 by David Woodall
  • Birdsong by Sebastian Faulkes
  • Fields of Glory by Jean Rouad

 

 

 

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