Contents 

2–3              

Communication Lines 

4–6 

‘Shoppee’s Tower’: The Importance of a Nieuport Church Tower in October 1914 by Luc Vanacker

7–11 

Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Gordon Carter, DSO, Pioneer Battalion Commander on the Western Front by William Westerman

12–15 

The Dinwiddy Rangefinder and the Defence of London by Peter Hodgkinson

16–18 

The Camera Returns (99) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall 

19–23 

A Lieutenant at Fifteen by Dr Paul Harris 

24–30 

The Short Life and Demise of the 3rd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1915 by Gareth Jones 

31–33 

Brigadier General Gordon Strachey Shephard DSO, MC, Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, MiD (1885–1918) by Trevor Lindley 

34–41 

A PoW who Made it to Switzerland – but not by Escaping: Private Sydney Smith’s War by Dr A D Chissel 

42 

Frank Richards and the Snake Expert by John Krijnen

43–48

Garrison Library 

 

Belgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Veranneman

WWI Crusaders: A band of Yanks in German-occupied Belgium help save millions from starvation as civilians resist the hard German rule. August 1914 to May 1917.

 

Southern Thunder: The Royal Navy and the Scandinavian Trade in World War One by Steve R Dunn

 

World War I Remembered: Royal Marine Buglers and Musicians at War by John Ambler

 

Belgrade during the Great War: The City through the Eyes of Those who lived in it 1914-198 by Milos Brun

 

Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War I by David Charlwood

 

Lessons from the Mud, 55th (West Lancashire) Division at the Third Battle of Ypres by Paul Knight

 

A Bradford Pal: from Mill Town to the Battlefields of France by John Broadhead 

 

Keeping the Old Flag Flying: The World War I Memoir of Kenneth Basil Foyster - Canadian, Prisoner and Internee.

 

History of the Small Arms School Corps 1853-2017 by Richard Fisher

 

Jack Beresford: An Olympian at War by John Beresford

 

Archduke Ferdinand and the Era of Assassination by Lisa Traynor

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