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Reference: Memoirs of an Army Meteorologist

Sep 4, 2024 · 129 min read · 1917 1918 Meteor Meteorological Office Meteorological Field Service Royal Engineers 4th Army 3rd Army 15th Division Headquarters GHQ OTC ASC WAAC Harry Cotton chlorine gas Phosgene gas Gas Artist Rifles Meteor Met Office Meteorological Officer Meteorological Section Kite Balloon Demobilisation Albert Amiens Beauquesne Bray Dunes Chatham Estrées Helfant Hesdin Montreuil Passchendaele Pont Noyelle Senlecques Somme St Omer Terramesnil Flanders Ypres Villers Carbonnel Spring offensive ·
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Originally published in The Meteorological Magazine between 1979 and 1980. © Crown Copyright. Figure 1. WW1 Era Kite Ballon, similar to what Harry Cotton would have made his observations from, Author's Collection Sourced and provided by the National Meteorological Library and Archive — Met Office, UK. Reproduced here …

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The Wipers Times Exposé: The Actor, Avesnes, and the Forgotten Evening Edition of the Wipers Times

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In my last piece, about the Printer and the Presses , I mentioned that I had come across a signpost in the second to last issue of the Wipers,now named the Better Times, in relation to the printing of the final two issues. This was the signpost: Our new paper is born in very different circumstances to the old Wipers …

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