109 : June/July 2017 Special Edition

This is a Special Edition of Stand To! 'Passchendaele Remembered 1917-2017'. 

Editor’s Introduction

100th Anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres

Retirement of David Cohen

Bob Wyatt hands over editor role to David Filsell

From ST 19 and more formally from ST 23 to ST 117 (98 editions)

David Filsell Press & Publicity Officer in 1987

Communication Lines : Letters to the Editor

Australian Electrical and Mechanical Company

Fire on the Ypres Ramparts

The First Tank Action in History ?

Macphereson Myth

John Kipling

Visiting Graves a century after the soldier’s death

1st Essex Memorial Appeal

I continue to love reading Stand To! And consume the articles every time a new edition appears. I’m sure I can speak for the silent majority when I say Stand To! (and the Bulletin) is such an eagerly awaited journal to receive and read. Most of us know bits and pieces of the history about events and places on the Western Front but the articles supplied by contributors always reveals that higher level of detail and knowledge that is very satisfying to add to our own knowledge base. Hence why it is a publication I look forward to seeing appear in my post office box every few months. Damien Finlayson, Victoria, Australia

Contents

Tolerating Mysters and Challenging History by Peter Barton

‘Our German Friends Were Quite Friendly’ Christmas with the Canadians on Vimy Ridge - December 1916 by Gordon MacKinnon

Raiders Lost - Now Found The Tyneside Scottish at Armentieres - February 1917 by David Tattersfield

47th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Casualties at the Battle of Messines 7 -12 June 1917 by Paul Sutton

The Camera Returns (91) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall

Ypres of Trouble : The Royal Flying Corps and the Third Battle of Ypres by Peter Hart

The First Day of Third Ypres : The 1st Battalion The Prince of Wale’s (North Staffordshire) Regiment by Jim Tanner

The Fifth Grenadiere at Poelkapelle, 20 September 1917 by Sebastian Laudan

9th KOYLI in the Battle of Broodseinde 4 October 1917 by Dr Derek Clayton

Nurses on the Front Line :The Work of Nurses at the Brandhoek Advance Abdominal July - November 1917 by Christine E Hallet

A New Circular to of the Passchendaele Battlefields by Jerry Murland

War Art : A small collection of our favourite works reflecting the Third Battle of Ypres by David and Judith Cohen

Rewarding Sites around the Ypres Salient by Tonie and Valmai Holt

Turnover Amongst Brigade Commanders : The Real Reasons ? by Dr Trevor Harvey

German Gunners of Cambrai by Steve Thornely

German Ground Strafing in the Cambrai Counter-Attack :  Some PoW Accounts by A D Harvey

The ‘Tank Corpse’ of Cambrai : A Century-Old Mysets by John Taylor and Rob Kirk

The Home Base - The UK 1914-1918 by Bob Butcher

Garrison Library

• Zero Hour Z Day 1st July 1916: XIII Corps Operations between Maricourt and Mametz  by Jonathan Porter
• Churchill and the Dardanelles by Christopher Bell (reviewed by Gary Sheffield)
• Wherever the Firing Line Extends by Ronan McGreevy
• Ulster Will Fight Vol. 1 Home Rule and the Ulster Volunteer Force 1886-1922 by David R Orr and David Trusedale
• Ulster Will Fight Vol. 2 The 36th (Ulster) Division from Formation to the Armistice by David R Orr and David Trusedale
• Hear the Boat Song : Oxford & Cambridge Rowers killed in World War I by Nigel McCrerry
• Men who Played the Game - Sportsmen Who Gave Their Life in the Great War by Mike Rees
• Dauntless Courage on the Somme: Officers of the 19th Division who fell at La Boiselle 1-10 July 1916 by Nick Thornicroft
• Time to Remember: The Journal of Lance Sergeant William Webb, October 14 - January 16, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, Seventh Division 1914-1918 by Gerald Buxton
• The Vest Pocket Kodak of the First World War by Jon Cooksey
• Liaison: General Pierre des Valliers at British General Headquartes, 1916-1917 by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
• From the Western Front to Salonika: A French Soldier Writes Home by Catherine Labaume-Howards (ed)
• We Are All Flourishing : The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter J J Coats MC 1914-1919 edited by Jan Chojecki and Micahel LoCicero
• The Bridge to Air Power: Logistics Support for the Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18 by Peter Dye
• Overstrand in the Great War by Tim Bennett
• The Half-Penny Curate : A Personal Account of War and Faith 1914-1918 by Sarah Reay
• Guilty but Insane: JC Bowen-Colthurst: Villain or Victim? By James W Taylor
• Letters from the Trenches - The First World War by Those Who Were There by Jacqueleine Wadsworth
• HMS Hampshire : A century of Myths and Mysteries Unravelled edited by James Irvine
• Frederick George Scott: The Great War as I Saw It
• Shell Shocked Prophets: Former Anglican Army Chaplains in Inter-War Years by Linda Parker
• Pass Guard at Ypres by Ronald Gurner
• Behind the Lines by W F Morris MC
• Roux the Bandit by Andre Chamson
• Mr Britling Sees It Through by H G Wells
• Into the Blue by Norman Macmillian OBE, MC, AFC
• Tell Mum Not to Worry: A Welsh Soldier’s War in the Near East by Rhys David
• Poppyganda by Matthew Leonard
• For Valour: Canadians and the Victoria Cross by Gerald Gliddon
• World War I Fact Book by William Van der Kloot
• (World War One source book by Philip Haythornthwaite)

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