20 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 28

A RECORD OF THE 17th AND 32nd SERVICE BATTALIONS, NORTHUMBERLAND

FUSILIERS. By Lt.-Col. Shakespear. (Northumberland Press, Newcastle,

on-Tyne.) . .

IT is from records such as these, giving the day-to-day life of the men who fought in the ranks, that some Gibbon of the future will glean together and marshal his materials for a history of the years of our great tribulation. Colonel

Shake:spear hai done his work simply and well in collating the narratives of eyewitnesses. The illustrations raise a lump in the throat : Salisbury Plain, Lens and Vimy from the Arms Road, the Yser Canal. How many of the men who marched from Codford St. Mary are alive to-day ?