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Members of the Centre:: Chris
McCarthy
Chris McCarthy left school at fifteen without
a qualification to his name. After an array of jobs, including suit salesman,
window dresser and electrician, he became manager of a model soldier shop in
Kennington. He joined the Imperial War Museum in 1976, first as Curator of
British uniforms and then as Conservation Officer. He has been Head of
Conservation since 2000. He is the author of The Somme. The Day by Day
Account (London: Arms & Armour Press, 1993) and Passchendaele. The
Day by Day Account (London: Arms & Armour Press, 1995). His essay ‘Queen
of the Battlefield: The Development of Command Organisation and Tactics in the
British Infantry Battalion during the Great War’ recently appeared in Gary
Sheffield & Dan Todman’s important collection, Command and Control on
the Western Front: The British Army’s Experience, 1914-1918 (Staplehurst:
Spellmount, 2004).
He is currently working on the day-by-day
account of Arras and on the life of the British soldier behind the lines (‘wine,
women and song’). He is also working on a data base that will allow users to
pin point a unit to a specific place at a specific date throughout the war.
Chris McCarthy has a collection of books on the Great War that some (notably,
John Lee) would kill for. He is the ‘M’ in SHLM.
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