091: April/May 2011

Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)

• The Camera Returns
• Coke
• Zandvoorde
• Richard Holmes RIP
• Claude Choules

‘Two Minor Demonstrations’: 1/1st Cambridgeshire Battalion's Raids on the Ancre, 16-17 September 1916 by Michael Durey

David Alfred Ayles: An Essex Vignette by John Sly

The BEF in the Great War 1914-1918 (Part 4) - 1917 by Bob Butcher

Private 'X' and the Immortal Eighty of Festubert (Part 2) by Colin Taylor

War Art - Lieutenant L. Van den Bergh by David and Judith Cohen

British Forces in Italy - The Southern Front 1917-1918 by Lieutenant Colonel Paolo Capanni

The Camera Returns (73) No.1. Convalescent Depot, Boulogne by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

‘In Retreat’ - An Extract from a Memoir by Captain R F Petschler MC RE by J H Johnson

Remembering the Great War in Holborn, London by Ray Westlake

The First Air Raids of the Great War by David Heal

From Leg of Mutton Common to Leg of Mutton Wood by John Pateman

Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)

• Remembering Fromelles: A New Cemetery for a New Century by Julie Summers (compiler)
• Crumps and Camouflets - Australian Tunnelling Companies on the Western Front by Damien Finlayson
• Great Lives: A Guide for Family Historians
• Trench: A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front by Stephen Bull
• 'Corky's War' The Diary of an RAMC Stretcher Bearer 1915-1919 by Ronald Fairfax
• Richtofen Jagdstaffel Ahead: RFC Pilots Out-Performed and Out-Gunned Over the Western Front by Peter Macmanus
• August 194 - Surrender at St Quentin by John Hutton
• The Trench War on the Western Front: 1914-1918 by Antonio Fernandez-Mayoralas
• The Madman and the Butcher: The Sensational Wars of Sam Hughes and General Arthur Curry by Tim Cook 
• Destination Western Front London’s Omnibuses go to War by Roy Larking
• Wandsworth & Battersea Battalions in the Great War by Paul McCue
• The Military Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam 1910-1942
• The Great War Letters of Lady Dorothy Feilding MM by Andrew and Nicola Hallam (Eds.)
• Gallipoli: The Ottoman Campaign by Edward J Erickson 
• ‘Blinker’ Hall: Spymaster, The Man Who Brought America into World War I by David Ramsay
• The 2nd Bedfords in France and Flanders 1914-1918 by M G Deacon
• Missed Signals on the Western Front: How the Slow Adoption of Wireless Restricted British Strategy and Operations in World War I by Mike Bullock and Lawrence Lyons
• Somme 1914-1918: Lessons in War by Martin Marix Evans
• The Somme: France 1916 by Chris McNab
• Tommy's Ark: Soldiers and their Animals in the Great War by Richard van Emden
• War is War by Ex Private X by A M Burrage
• The Distant Drum: Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War by F E Noakes

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