Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • Soldiers Died CD ROM
  • The Kipling Society
  • Questions about the size and scope of Garrison Library (First World War Book Reviews)

The American ‘Royal Engineers’ by Walter Kudlick

Hobart’s History of Cambrai (Part I)

Chapter I: The Allied Situation in October 1917

Chapter II: Tank Corps 1917

Chapter III: The Inception and Development of the Plan Battle

Chapter IV: The Orders and Preparation for Battle 

Members' Research:

  • Patrol at Villers Carbonnel 5 March 1917 
  • Two Long Service Medal Stories. How Far West Was the Western Front? Ernie Wicks and George Wilson by John S Sly

The Camera Returns (36): Sunken Road at Bourlon February 1918 by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy

The War to End All Wars: The American Military Experience in World War I by Edward M. Coffman

One Story Among Many by David Heal

War Art: Tank Battle on the Somme by Captain Bryan De Grineau, 1883-1957 by David Cohen

How I escaped from Germany by Lieutenant Walter Duncan 1/8th Batt. King's (Liverpool Regiment) 

Poetry by Helen McPhail

A Padre at Amiens: Richard V H Burne 

How to find ‘Some Corner of a Foreign Field’ by Peter Francis

Garrison Library (First World War Book Reviews)

  • Who Downed the Aces during the First World War by Norman Franks
  • The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War by David G Herman
  • They Shall Not Grow Old - Irish Soldiers by Myles Dungan (Reviewed by Gary Sheffield)
  • Arras to Cambrai: the Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment 1917 by Colin Fox et al.
  • Handbook of the Belgium Army 
  • Field Marshal Sir William Robertson by David R Woodward
  • Official History of the War. The War in the Air by H A Jones 
  • A Short History of the Royal Airforce. Air Publications 125

 

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