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Transportation on the Western Front 1914-1918 (History of the Great War Based on Official Documents)

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of California https://books.google.com/books?id=LaA3AQAAIAAJ Another file of this title available in the Internet Archive has some missing pages, at least pages 68-69 and 399-400, which this version contains. The separate case of Maps which was included as part of this publication is NOT included in this digital file. Published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO) 1937 The Author’s Preface says "This Volume has been compiled to show some of the principal transport questions which arose on the Western Front, the origin, growth and general organization of the services set up to deal with those questions, and the rise of an organization combining a number of separate services connected with transport into a single service called Transportation." The Introduction continues "The story of the work and growth of military transportation, that is, of railways, canals, roads and docks…" The author was previously a Colonel in the Royal Engineers, part of the British Army. The Introduction says "He had gone out to France in August 1914 as an Assistant Director of Railway Transport; he had served in that capacity until railway

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