Stand To! No 90, the journal of the Western Front Association, is now being distributed to current subscribed members of the WFA.
Stand To! is published three times a year in Dec/Jan, April/May and Aug/Sept.
The Editor is always prepared to consider original articles for publication.
Below you will find the contents list and we include here a link to an example article from the current edition.
Contents of Edition 90:
Communication Lines p.2-4
Private X and the Immortal Eighty Festubert - Part 1 p.5-9
The Aristocrats’ Cemetery at Zillebeke (website featured article) p.10-13
The Adventures of Byng and Birdwood p.14-15
A Fortnight in France, A Soldier’s Story of the battle of Estaires p.16-21
The Camera Returns (72) p.22-23
Great War Memorials - Memory and National Identity p.24-27
The BEF 1914 -18 Part 3 - 1916 p.28
Henry Moseley’s Role in the Great War p.29-35
War Art p.36-40
Great War British Army Officer Records as a Research Source p.41-44
Remembering the Great War at the Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly p.45-46
Joseph Ashmore - 1/6 Battalion Durham Light Infantry (TF) p.47-49
The Port of Spain Great War Memorial, Trinidad p.50-57
Garrison Library edited by Lt Col Bob Wyatt, pages 58-64
Front Cover:
The featured illustration, published in July 1917, was one of many produced by the celebrated war artist Muirhead Bone and is titled ‘A Ruined Trench: Mont St. Eloi in the Distance', It comes from Part VII of a series called The Western Front published monthly - then priced at 2 shillings - by authority of The War Office through the office of Country Life of Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London and publisher George Newnes Ltd. Each monthly instalment featured twenty black and white or colour illustrations by the artist - with accompanying descriptions - which provide a fascinating new angle on familiar subjects for us today. Many readers of Stand To! will be familiar with the twin fingers of the ruins of Mont St. Eloi Abbey, a few kilometres west of Vimy Ridge, and clearly visible from the A26 Autoroute on the road south to the Somme. The description accompanying this drawing informs us that ‘Mont St. Eloi was one of the finest view points along the old front. There was an ancient abbey on the top of the hill and the two irregular stems of masonry seen in the drawing are the remains of two tall towers added to it in the eighteenth century'. The introductory passage to this volume is headed ‘Deserts' and asserts that the battlefields of late 1916 and early 1917 resembled places where ‘some irresistible angel of death and demolition had breathed in the face of the whole country and its occupants. Nothing has been let off, neither village, nor field, nor wood, nor even the graves of the dead'.
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