Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • Helen McPhails Poetry Editor for a number of years retires

Web Watch (3) by Jim Fanning

L’Ecossais of the 51st (Highland) Division by Michael Young

The Sandringhams at Suvla Bay by Dick Rayner

Unveiling of the Menin Gate 24 July 1927 

Construction of the Gate 

Poetry by Helen McPhail

Memories of Metal: ' Trench Art', a Lost Resource of the Great War by Nicholas J Saunders

Provisioning The BEF by Walter Kudlick

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • Deborah at Flesquieres
  • The Hospitallers' War
  • Sunken Roads
  • Omnibuses at War 
  • Americans in Canadian Forces 

Provisioning the BEF

The Camera Returns (40) Combles by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy

War Art: George James Charlton by David Cohen 

Members' Research

  • A Diary of Foreign Service by Simon and Robert Thornton
  • The Men of Auchtermuchty by John Mathieson
  • Can It Be? The Guns Ceased This Morning. Leaves from the diary of Lieutenant Will Carne, an Australian Prisoner of War in Germany by Alan Box

In Such Fortitude: Major The Hon Maurice Boving OBE by Lanayre D. Liggera

Letters of an Airman: 2nd  Lt Geoff Wal RFC 1916-1917 6 August 1917 by Andrew Whitmash, RAF Museum, Hendon 

Heroes All (2) by Ray Westlake

Lt James Campbell-Henderson Hamilton 24 Sept 1915

Letters of an Airman: 2nd Lieutenant Geoff Wall RFC, 1916-1917

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

  • The Last Man by Lyn MacDonald
  • Artillery's Astrologers: A History of British Survey and Mapping on the Western Front 1914-1918 by P Chassaud
  • At the Eleventh Hour. Reflections, Hopes and Fears at Closing of the Great War by Cecil H Liddle (eds)
  • Cameos of the Western Front by A Spagnoly and T Smith 
  • The Western Front from the Air by N Watkis
  • Ends and Means: The British Mesopotamian Campaign and Commission by P.K. Davis.
  • The Grand Fleet Warship Design and Development 1906-1922 by D K Brown
  • With Snow on Their Boos. The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I by J H Cockfield
  • Their Duty Done. The Kitchener Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1918 by C Fox
  • Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in American History by I Iezzzoni
  • Retreat Hell! We Only Just Got Here! The American Expeditionary Force in France, 1917-1918 by M M Evans
  • Gallipoli, 1915 by C Townsend
  • Almost Like A Dream - A Parish at War 1914-1919 by M Austin
  • Eastbourne's Great War by R A Elliston 
  • Ballymoney Heroes 1914-1918 by R Thompson
  • Memorial and Local Studies
  • Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) by J S Roberts
  • QMS Edgar Wignall of the 51st Field Ambulance RAMC by C Harrison
  • For Younger Readers
  • The Train Now Standing in No Man’s Land by L Harris
  • Brief Notices
  • The Outbreak of the First World War; Strategic Planning, Crisis Decision-Making and Deterrence Failure by J H Maurer
  • Decisions for War by K Wilson (Ed.)
  • Generals in Khaki by H B Davis
  • The Treaty of Versailles: A Re-assessment after 75 Years by M Boemeke

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