Stand To! The Journal Of The Western Front Association #49 (1997)
The Western Front Association was formed in 1980 to maintain interest in the period 1914-1918, to perpetuate the memory, courage and comradeship of those on all sides who served their countries in France and Flanders and their own countries during the Great War. It does not seek to glorify war and is non-political.
In This Edition:
Notes by the Way (Notices from the Editor)
- John Terraine's health
- John Terraine Poem ‘In May’
- Behaviour at the Menin Gate
- War Cemeteries in Spring
- Cricketing Photographs
Territorial Battalions of the King's (The King’s Liverpool Regiment) by Lieutenant Colonel A J Moore, TD
Poetry by Helen MacPhail
Postcard by Tony Allen
Dolomiten Freunde by James Ure
Black Soldiers in the British Army 1914-1919 by Paul Reed
Bruges and Gravelines July-September 1914: A Diary Edited by Meryl Moore
War Art : Jean Berne-Bellecour b. 1874 by David Cohen
The Innkeeper and the Upper Room: Talbot House by Mike Lyddiard, Director Toc H
Communication Lines (Letters to the Editor)
- Sir Ivor Maxse
- Non-Conformists
- Martin Middlebrook on ‘blacking in’ names on memorials with chalk or crayon
- Harry Wells VC
- School Visits to the Western Front
Where are the Blankshires ?
Towards a Memorial Avenue: The Western Front Association and the National Memorial Arboretum by Paul Gough
County and Regiment: An Analysis of Recruitment and the Northumberland Fusiliers 1914-1918 by Graham Stewart
The Camera Returns (31): Blangy on the outskirts of Arras by Steve Wall and Bob Grundy
Geology and Warfare on the Western Front by Peter Doyle and Matthew Bennett
Garrison Library (First World War books reviewed)
- The Indian Corps in France by Lt Col J W B Merewether
- Brassey's Companion to the British Army by Maj Gen Makepiece-Warne
- The History of the 89th Brigade 1914-1918 by Brig. Gen F C Stanley
- The Finest of all by F Holcroft
- Listening In. Intercepting German Trench Communications in World War I by E Henrichs
- On The Somme. Kitchener’s Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1916 by John Chapman et al.
- British Fighting Methods in the Great War by P Griffiths (Ed.)
- Soft Cover
- 40 pages
- In Good Condition