063: January 2002

Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)

• First Christmas Calendar
• The Great War series on video

Web Watch (8) by Jim Fanning 

War Art: Gunner F J Mears, Royal Garrison Artillery by David Cohen 

The 2/8th Sherwood Foresters and the Battle of Polygon Wood by David Borrill

Thomas Edgar Barrill 26 September 1917

The London Balloon Apron by Martin Kender 

Letters from a Postman: Horace Surtees by W T Littler 

Heroes All (7):

• Lieutenant Basil Claudius Ash, 2nd Sherwood Foresters by Ray Westlake

Major S J Rowland RAMC

The Soda Water Merchant: Horace Ronald Eddison 28341 RAMC

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

• Fovant Badges
• Shot at Dawn 
• Australian Horses
• The Royal Gunpowder Mills

Major S J Rowland RAMC 26 General Hospital by Angie Hodges 

Poetry

The Camera Returns (45) 22 Squadron 

A Perspective on the Western Front by an Indian Army Office on the Western Front by Dr DeWitt C.Ellinwood

A sad discovery near Loos by Peter Last 

Battles of the Silver Helmets by Bob Butcher 

Haelen 12 August 1914

Walter Marsden - Sculptor (died 17 August 1969) by Richard Hughes

Garrison Library (First World War Book Reviews)

• The First World War, Vol.1 The Call to Arms by Hew Strachan
• Caucasian Battlefields. A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border, 1828 to 1921 by W E D Allen and Paul Muratoff. 
• The British Tanks by David Fletcher
• Against the Myth - The Great War 1914-1918
• Ordered to Die. A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War by Edward J Erickson
• Durham Men in the Great War by John Davison
• Battleship Texas by Hugh Power
• The Lusitania, the Life, Loss and Legacy of an Ocean Legend by Daniel Allen Butler
• The Great War 1914-1918 by Ian F Becket
• The Letters of May Lind (Newfoundland's Unofficial War Correspondent 1914-1916) by Francis T Lind
• Stoker's Submarine by Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley
• Will Aboott's War by Derek Savory
• Yanks. The Epic Story of the American Army in World War I by John Eisenhower and Joanne Eisenhower
• American's All. Foreign-Born Soldiers in World War I by Nancy G Ford
• When Heroes Die. A Forgotten Archive Reveals the last days of the School Friends who Died for Britain by Sue Smart (Ed.)
• Dear Mrs Jones - The Great War Dead of Crewe & Nantwich by Mark Potts & Joy Bratherton 

U.S. Postal Service Honours Great Illustrator

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