083: August/September 2008

Editor’s Introduction

• The Ridley Scott ‘Boy with Bike’ Hovis advert recreated with 200 extras in Great War uniforms

Communications Lines

• In From the Cold project on the Great War Forum
• Eton’s Generals

Hades' Henchmen - The Australian Tunnelling Companies and 'Alphabet Company': 1916-1919 by Damien Finlayson

Discipline in the BEF. An Analysis of Executions in British Divisions 1914-1918 by David Tattersfield

Personalities of the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers 'The Surrey-man': Paris Hilary Drake Brockman by David Langley

The RFC on the Western Front - A Beginner's Guide by Bob Butcher

War Art: Lieutenant James Whale 2nd/7th Worcester Regiment by David Cohen

British Medical Casualties on the Western Front in the Great War Parat I: Dealing with Wounded Related Data by Dr David Payne

Oases by Ronald Henry Poynting 1st/5th (Cinque Ports) Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment

The Camera Returns (65): Becourt Wood by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

Fromelles, 19/20 July 1916 - A Success After All? By Mike Senior

Rethinking 10/West Yorks at Fricourt by David Stowe

Llandaff War Memorials by Ray Westlake

'The Journey's End' - the 9th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment in the Great War by Michael Lucas

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

• The Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-1918 by John Brophy and Eric Partridge
• John Masefield's Great War: Collected Works by Philip W Errington (Ed.)
• A Lack of Offensive Spirit? The 46th (North Midland) Division at Gommecourt, 1st July 1916 by Alan Macdonald
• Borrowed Soldiers: American under British Command, 1918 by Michell A Yockelson
• The Second Battle of the Marne by Michael S Neiberg
• Battles East - A History of the Eastern Front of the First World War by G Irving Root
• Wearside Battalion: the 20th (Service) Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry in the Great War by John Sheen
• Le Cateau by Nigel Cave and Jack Sheldon
• The Zeebrugge Raid by Philip Warner
• The Zeebrugge Raid 1918: The Finest Feat of Arms by Paul Kendall
• The German Army on Vimy Ridge by Jack Sheldon
• Kitchener's Men: The King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915-1918 by John Hutton
• World War I in Cartoon by Dr Mark Bryant 
• The War Poets Series by Jean Moorcroft Wilson (General Editor)
• Borrowed Soldiers: American under British Command, 1918 by Michell A Yockelson
• The Second Battle of The Marne by Michael S Neiberg
• To Conquer Hell: The Meuse Argonne, 1918 by Edward G. Lengel

Short Notices

• Evelyn Wood VC: Pillar of Empire by Steven Manning
• Greater Love: A Directory of Chaplains of the British Army, Australia, Canada, East Africa, New Zealand and South African Forces and Ministers of Religion who gave their lives in the period 1914-22 by Rev. David Youngson
• Jack Garbutt: the Bilslade Bombadier by Susan Laffey  (reviewed by Chris Baker)
• The Bath at War. A Derbyshire community and the Great War by Charles Beresford

Acetone, Cordite and the Balfour Declaration by Elizabeth Balmer

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