We’re still in the midst of the centennial commemoration of World War I, an enormously complicated war still argued over to this day. While fully understanding the war’s big picture may be a nearly impossible exercise, getting a view from the trenches in The Grizzled shows how the trauma ...
1918) pp. 201-2. Hence too Mark Harrison’s apt description of a ‘medical machine’ assembled on the Western Front:The Medical War: British Military medicine in the First World War(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). The imagery of two streams was a common one too, and so was ...
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The war diaries suggested that September and October were taken up by training: “Lewis Gun, bombing, squad drill, musketry, platoon drill, bayonet fighting, physical training”.Two officers and seventy NCOs who had taken the horses to Egypt returned. The war diaries...
Posted on April 2, 2023 by ww1geek A while ago I picked up a copy of ‘The Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book’ from a charity shop. At over 400 pages and weighing in at nearly 3.5kg, this is an impressive work setting out the contribution of the Royal Artillery during the war...
In 1917, World War l was still raging in Europe and l recall a visit from my uncle Peter Chestnut to bid us farewell before being shipped to France. He arrived with a huge rifle and in uniform. For our edification, he fixed a bayonet to the rifle and proceeded to show us "present ...
1 applied to the chief of traliic of the .Smolensk section of the Western Railway, Ivanov, asking him to provide the camp with railway cars for evacuation of the Polish war prisoners. But Ivanov answered that I could not count on receiving cars. I also tried to get in touch with Moscow...