Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

  • Colin Fox RIP
  • Prize for A'Level Students?

Preparation for War: Tactics in European Armies before 1914 by Andrew Whitmarsh

Web Watch (4) by Jim Fanning

Behind Their Lines: The Story of the Calder Brothers by Michael Copp

A Gentleman Cadet at War: Captain William Henry Victor Van der Smissen CEF by Capt. Andrew B. Godefroy

The Camera Returns (41) Conqueror at Fontaine-Notre-Dame 

'Breaking the Rules' Officers' Memoirs Published 1920-1935 by Jonathan Walker 

Dr Paul F Brain interview by Paul Guthrie

Letters from a Poilu

War Art: Balliol Salmon (1868-1953) by David Cohen

Poetry

Dear Sister Harfield 

Members' Research

  • With the 34th Battalion MGG Ypres to Rhine by Bryan Adams
  • In Commemoration of Robert Spall VC by Neville Skinner 
  • Group Photography Before, Now and In-Between by Andrew Tatham

The Northern Rhodesia Police on the Western Front by Tim Wright

Heroes All by Ray Westlake

  • Lieutenant Colin Knox Anderson, 1st Battalion, Queens' Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

  • The Sandringham’s at Sulva Bay
  • 51st (Highland) Division Memorial
  • The Building of the Menin Gate
  • Omnibuses at War
  • Women's Writing
  • Mystery Officers

Garrison Library (First World War Book Reviews)

  • Forward March! Memoirs of a German Office by Ernst Rosenhainer
  • Command in the Royal Naval Division. A Military Biography of Brigadier General A.M. Asquith DSO by Christopher Page
  • A Village Remembers 1914-1918. Military and Social History, Letters and Diaries and Photographs from Faulkbourne Essex by Chris and Ken Adam
  • Women's Writing of the First World War. An Anthology by Angela K Smith (Ed.)
  • The US Navy in World War I - Combat at Sea and in the Air by A B Feuer
  • Moreton & District Patriots 1914-1918 by Stephen McGreal
  • Memoirs of the Maelstrom - A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War by Joe Lunn
  • The Great War, 1914-1918 by Spencer T Tucker
  • Your Country Needs You. From Six to Sixty Five Divisions by Martin Middlebrook.
  • Blood Brothers - Hiram and Hudson Maxim: Pioneers of Modern Warfare by I McCallum
  • Unceasing War - the  6th Service Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry during the Great War by M K Johnson
  • Five Years in Turkey by Liman von Sanders

Editor’s Choice:

  • British Battalions in France & Belgium 1914 by Ray Westlake
  • Doctors in the Great War by Ian R. Whitehead
  • Combat Surgeons by John Laffin
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