Stand To! No 91, 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 here a link to an example article from the current edition.
Front cover: The cover photograph for this issue comes from the US National Archives. It was taken on 29 September 1918 and was received by the American War Department from the Photographic Section of the British War Office. There exist two captions for the image; the first reads 'German soldier wearing Red Cross armlet was captured while operating a machine gun, near Bellicourt, France', and the second; 'American soldier with German prisoner found working a machine gun with armlet on, near Bellicourt, France'. Courtesy US National Archives - Record Group 165, BO-1792.
Contents of Edition 91:
2-4 Communication Lines
5-9 ‘Two Minor Demonstrations': The 1/1st Cambridgeshire Battalion's Raids on the Ancre, 16/17th Sept. 1916 by Michael Durey
10-12 David Alfred Ayley: An Essex Vignette by John Sly
13 The BEF in the Great War Part 4 - 1917 by Bob Butcher
14-19 Private ‘X' and the Immortal Eighty of Festubert - Part 2 by Colin TaylorWar Art - Lieutenant L. Van den Bergh by David and Judith Cohen
25-31 British Forces in Italy - The Southern Front 1917-1918 by Lieutenant Colonel Paolo Capanni
32-33 The Camera Returns (73) by Bob Grundy and Steve Wall
34-37 ‘In Retreat' - An Extract from a Memoir by Captain R.F. Petschler MC RE by J.H. Johnson
38-39 Remembering the Great War in Holborn by Ray Westlake
40-43 The First Air Raids of the Great War by David Heal
46-49 From Leg of Mutton Common to Leg of Mutton Wood by John Pateman
50-56 Garrison Library
