Notes by the Way. (Notices from the Editor)

  • Mike Lyddiard RIP
  • Peter Simkins retired and awarded OBE

Alexander McClintock - a Kentuckian with the Canadians by Paul Guthrie

War Art: Ernest Procter (1886-1935) ‘Verdun and Advanced Dressing Station on the heights behind the town’ by David Cohen

Hobart's History of Cambrai (Part III)

Chapter 8: Some Personal Accounts of the Battle by Tank Officers

Some Very Important Ground: The Attack on Maissemy, 15 September 1918 by Richard Hughes

Member's Researach:

  • Remembering Essigny le Grand by Lt Col Ian F. Angus TD, Bsc
  • Trumpeter Patterson’s War by Richard Young
  • A Tale of Two Brothers by Phil Tomaselli

Web Watch (1) by Jim Fanning 

The Durham Light Infantry in Archangel: The Diary of Private Walter Wright. Regimental Butcher with the 2/7th Battalion TF October 1918 - May 1919

The Camera Returns (38) Merris, 12 April 1918 by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy 

Night Attack 2/Royal Munsters at Cité Calonne 25 June 1916 by Graham Saville 

Communication Lines  (Letters to the Editor)

  • US Army in the Great War
  • Stormtroopers and Stick Grenades by Peter Caddick-Adams (Stand To! 55) 
  • Collecting Medals
  • 'George Robey' Tank
  • Lagarde Cemeteries
  • Garrison Library - your views

Another Card from Pater

Poetry by Helen McPhail 

Photographing headstones

Schools Prize 1998 - Haig has been called 'The Butcher of the Somme' To what extend should he be blamed for the casualties of the Battle of the Somme?

Women's War Work - Postcards

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

  • A Weekend with the Great War by Steven Weingartner (Ed.)
  • Pals Battalions (A rang of Pals Histories listed)
  • Amiens to the Armistice. The BEF in the Hundred Days Campaign 8 August 1918 - 11 November 1918 by J P Harris and Niall Barr
  • The Great War Generals on the Western Front by Robin Neillands
  • Private Memorials on the Western Front by Barrie Thorpe
  • A Patriot's Progress. Henry Williamson and the First World War by Anne Williamson
  • The Dover Patrol 1914-1918 by Roy Humphreys
  • A History of the 10th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918 by C Housley
  • Easily Led - History of Propaganda by Oliver Thomson
  • The Encyclopaedia of 20th Century Conflict by Paul Kemp
  • Memorials of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance by Alex King.
  • K Boats - Storm-Powered Submarines in World War I by Don Everitt
  • Engaged in War - the Letters of Stanley Goodland 1914-1919 by Anne Noyes et al (Eds.)
  • Baptism of Fire - the 5th Green Howards at St.Julien April 1915 by Mark Marsay
  • One Day on the Somme by Barry Cuttell
  • Mons 1914 by Michael Gavaghan
  • War, Medicine and Modernity by Roger Coote, Mark Harrison & Steve Sturdy
  • Propaganda by Bertran Taithe & Tim Thornton
  • Cleckheaton’s Finest by Charlie Turpin
  • IWM Reprints

 

 

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