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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...expect to be at full war strength in Great Britain until the spring of next year," said Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, speaking in Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. "At that time the nation will at last be fully prepared industrially and in the field. July 1, 1916, was a momentous day for the British 'Tommy' for on that day the war realy began, as far as the Allies are concerned and with the first rush of the Somme offensive the British soldier, inexperienced and hastily trained, proved himself the equal, nay, the superior...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and author, will lecture on "The Human Side of French Warfare" in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tickets at one dollar may be obtained at Amee's and at the door, the proceeds of the lecture going to the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee, which supplies medical materials for the Harvard Surgical Unit in France...
...book, "The First Hundred Thousand," written under the pen-name of Ian Hay, Captain Beith has collected his most interesting and entertaining experiences at Aldershot and "somewhere in France" as typical of the life of a British volunteer...
Fresh from the English trenches in France, Captain Ian Hay Beith has come to America to resume in person his lively and picturesque narrative of the "First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection...
...Lecture. "The Human Side of Trench Warfare," by Captain Ian Hay Beith. Sanders Theatre...