Further south I have had fruitful correspondence with Ian Hook of the Essex Regiment Museum and Andy Robertshaw at the Royal Logistic Corps – both former colleagues at the National Army Museum. On the other side of the Pennines John Spencer of the Duke of Wellington’s Museum and Keith Matthews at York Castle have been similarly helpful. Colonel Martin Steiger and Captain John Cornish have been unfailingly supportive in their respective roles with the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry and 14th and 20th Hussars. Colonel John Downham, Colonel Mike Glover, Jane Davies, Gary Smith and Peter Donnelly have provided access to many specific texts and objects from the collections of the North, South and East Lancashire regiments as well as the Manchesters, Liverpool Scottish, King’s Own and Lancashire Fusiliers. Simon Jones, formerly of the Royal Engineers and King’s Liverpool museums, has frequently helped with questions of gas and mining. Perhaps the first candidate for acknowledgement is Dr Paddy Griffith, formerly of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, with whom friendly ‘tactical’ sparring has led to significant results. It behoves me to thank as many as possible within the space available. Their fields of endeavour span armies and regiments, tactics, weapons, engineering, genealogy, geology, archaeology, museology and history – to name but the most obvious. Over the years they have been unearthing, sometimes quite literally, old, new and at times arcane facts about the Western Front. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As early as my very first glimpse of the Western Front – with my parents, more years ago than I care to remember – I have been working up a significant debt to a band of like-minded professionals, enthusiasts and academics.The Armies of 1914 and the Problem of Attack A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front
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