047: September 1996

Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

• Stand To! Covers in colour to mark the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme

• John Terraine’s 75th celebrated

• Duke Albrecht of Bavaria

• Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery

• Roll of Honour: death of veterans

Tributes to John Terraine F R Hist S, Hon. Fellow, Keble College, Oxford and Honorary President of The Western Front Association 

War Art: Punch Cartoon dated 17 March 1915 by George Belcher R.A. 1875-1947 by David Cohen 

Donald Hankey A Student in Arms by Ross Davies

'Mar Chuimmneachan Air NA Gaisgeach Nach Maireann': A Memorial to the Heroes That Are No More' A special case by Tom Tulloch-Marshall

Sir Douglas Haig's Diary and Despatches. Dating and Censorship by John Hussey

Contacts with troops: Commanders and Staffs in the First World War by Captain Cyril Falls

Postcards. The 'Bliss' Series by A J Peacock

A "New' Poet by Helen McPhail 

Members' Research 

• A straight bat at first crease: Arthur Collins by John Gillis
• William Ellam's memoirs by Jeanne and Tony Knight 
• Private Orrell Taylor Duerdon by Mark Smith 

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

• Kitchener's Monument
• Italian Front
• The Camera Returns (28)
• Collapse of Imperial Germany
• Vandalism and theft of cemetery registers

The Camera Returns (29): by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

• A Serious Disappointment. The Battle of Aubers Ridge 1915 and the Munitions Scandal by Adrian Bristow 
• A History of the British Cavalry 1816-1919 Volume 7 The Curragh Incident and the Western Front 1914 by The Marquess of Anglesey
• For Love of Regiment - A History of British Infantry by Charles Messenger
• Holt's Maps and Guides: 
• Major and Mrs Holts Battlefield Guide to the Ypres Salient.
• Major and Mrs Holts Battle Map of the Somme
• Major and Mrs Holts Battlefield Guide to the Somme 
• Airmen Died in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Chris Hobson
• Henry Williamson - Tarka and the Last Romantic by Anne Williamson 
• The Golden Virgin by Henry Williamson
• The Flower of Battle - British Fiction Writers of the First World War by Hugh Cecil
• Bloody Red Taps by F Davies and G Maddocks
• The Evolution of Victory. British Battles on the Western Front 1914-1918 by Andy Simpson (Reviewed by Garry Sheffield)
• Men, Ideas and Tanks British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903-1939 by J P Harris
• Responding to the Call. The Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at the Battle of Loos 1915 by John Chapman
• The Student Soldiers (Aberdeen) by John McConachie
• AIF Epitaphs of World War One by John Laffin
• Responding to the Call: the Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment at the Battle of Loos 1915 by John Chapman et al. (Reviewed by Gary Sheffield)
• The World War I Memoir of a German Lieutenant by R A Baumgartner
• Handbook of the French Army 1914
• Battlebags - British Airships of the First World War by Ces Mowthorpe
• Handbook of the Italian Army 1913
• Imperial War Museum Review by Janet Mihell and Peter Simkins
• Military Operations - France and Belgium 1918 Volume II by James Edmonds
• Military Operations - France and Belgium 1918 Volume I Appendicies by James Edmonds
• Military Operations - France and Belgium 1918 Volume III by James Edmonds
• Military Operations - Togoland and the Cameroons 1914-1916 by Brig. Gen F S Moberly
• Shadows Cast. A Walking Journey. Albert to Thiepval by I C & D Pearson
• The Canvas Falcons. The Men and Planes of World War I by Stephen Longhurst
• Immingham’s War Dead Remembered. What Happened to Joe? By Mary Leitch
• Organised Against Fire (The London Fire Brigade) by W F Hickin

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