The Battle of the Somme

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Battle Of The Somme

A supplementary note to 'An historical note on butterfly collecting in France during The Great War (1914–1918)'

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 245-248
Author(s):  
W. John Tennent ◽  
Stella Beavan ◽  
Huw Jones ◽  
Geoff Martin
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Historical Note ◽  
Supplementary Note ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Battle Of The Somme ◽  
Entomological Data

Following a short article regarding the collection of a specimen of Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758) by A. A. Tullett, in France during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, further personal and entomological data regarding Tullett and others is presented.

Seeking memoirs of vets involved in the Battle of the Somme

2009 ◽  
Vol 165 (21) ◽  
pp. 636-636
Author(s):  
H. Sebag-Montefiore
Keyword(s):  
Battle Of The Somme

South Africa and Scotland in the First World War

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hyslop
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The South ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Battle Of The Somme ◽  
First World

This chapter discusses the powerful and long-lasting impact Scottish military symbolism on the formation of military culture in South Africa. Drawing on the work of John MacKenzie and Jonathan Hyslop’s notion of ‘military Scottishness’, this chapter analyses how Scottish identity both interacted with the formation of political identities in South Africa, and ‘looped back’ to connect with changing forms of national identity in Scotland itself. In particular, it addresses how the South Africans’ heroic role at Delville Wood, during the Battle of the Somme, became a putative symbol of this racialised ‘South Africanism’. The South African Brigade included a battalion of so-called ‘South African Scottish’ which reflected the phenomenon of military Scottishness. Overall, the chapter looks at the way in which the representations of the role of the South African troops involved an interplay between British empire loyalism, white South African political identities, and Scottishness.

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