New Book

OSBs may be interested to know of a recent publication: ‘With The Cumberland Artillery In The Great War’. It is based on the papers of Lt-Col.D.J.Mason, D.S.O., T.D., which have been edited by Thomas Thompson (FN 44-49).
Dan Mason was a West Cumberland solicitor who, as a Territorial officer, commanded the Workington Battery of the Cumberland Artillery in the campaigns in Gallipoli, Sinai and then the Western Front. The volume also contains a history of the regiment from its formation to its disbandment in 1967.

The price is £9.99 plus £2.50 postage and is available from:
Cumbria’s Military Museum, Queen Mary’s Tower, The Castle, Carlisle CA3 8UR.
Tel: 01228 532774. E-mail: borderegiment@aol.com.