Word: hay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...outlining the main features of modern warfare, Captain Ian Hay Beith emphasized the new significance of the airplane. It has passed out of its period of experimentation and into a new sphere of deadly effectiveness--spying out the enemy's territory, directing artillery fire, raiding hostile encampments, and making surprise attacks impossible. Briefly, "the command of the air determines which side shall gain the victory...
...situation in the colleges of England before the war broke out was somewhat different from that in your American universities and colleges today," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter just before his lecture in Tremont Temple yesterday afternoon. "You see, we had had our Officers' Training Corps as a regular institution in the life of the British student, which prepared the undergraduates for ordinary military service, the work of the corps being extremely popular and purely voluntary. When a man in training had passed an examination proving his ability as a potential officer...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier, author and lecturer, will speak on "Modern Battlefield Tactics" in Tremont Temple this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock under the auspices of the New England headquarters of the Military Training Camps Association. It will be open to the public and members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are especially requested to attend...
Captain Beith, or Ian Hay, as he is known to the literary world, has had an active and varied service in the European war, enlisting not long after the outbreak of the struggle and spending six months of the fall and winter of 1914-15 in training at Aldershot with the raw material from which Lord Kitchener formed the "first hundred thousand." His regiment, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was among the first sent to the front, and with others composed the first army sent to France by England, known as "the first hundred thousand" and also...
...book, 'The First Hundred Thousand," Ian Hay is best known in this country, although he is rapidly acquiring a reputation as a forceful speaker and lecturer. In this widely read work he graphically pictured the conditions in England at the outbreak of the war, and told of the length of time required to train a body of volunteers to the efficiency necessary in modern warfare. He has been granted a furlough by the British War Office to lecture in this country on England's part...