SALIENT POINTS FOUR: YPRES AND PICARDY 1914-18

Ted Smith, Tony Spagnoly

ISBN 10: 0097808512 / ISBN 13: 9780097808512

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Softback, 150 pagesPublished Price £9.99 Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SALIENT POINTS FOUR: YPRES AND PICARDY 1914-18
• ISBN 10: 0097808512
• ISBN 13: 9780097808512
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Military History

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Synopsis

If you do voluntary work in a parish, if you are a priest, a seminarian or a parish employee - or if you are thinking about working in a parish - this book will help you understand how Catholic parishes work, how parish life is organised and what it's like to work in them. How to Survive Working in a Catholic Parish is a practical and user-friendly guide to surviving (and thriving) in a Catholic parish.

About the Author

Mark Bray is Director of UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) in Paris. Prior to taking this post in 2006, he worked for 20 years at the University of Hong Kong where, among other roles, he was Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre. He has also taught in secondary schools in Kenya and Nigeria, and at the Universities of Edinburgh, Papua New Guinea and London. He is widely known for his work on planning and financing of education systems, and has undertaken consultancy work in over 60 countries of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the South Pacific.