From Mons To Loos - The Diary Of A Supply Officer [Illustrated Edition]

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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782894683
Total Pages : 259 pages
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Download or read book From Mons To Loos - The Diary Of A Supply Officer [Illustrated Edition] written by Major Herbert A. Stewart and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes with 21 illustrations and photos. A member of General French’s “Contemptible” little army recounts his tales of the opening two years of the First World War. Under shot and shell in the front lines with the gallant Tommies of the BEF from the first engagements until the bloody battle of Loos. “THIS little work does not profess to be a record of historical facts, but merely a series of impressions snap-shotted upon my mind as they occurred, and set down here in simple language; and if these snapshots can bring home to my readers some idea, however faint, of what war and its attendant miseries mean, then my labour will not have been in vain. “To those who may imagine that the British fighting man of to-day is not the equal of his forebears, who fought from Crécy and Agincourt to Albuera and Waterloo, I trust the story of Mons, the Aisne, Neuve Chapelle, and Ypres will set all doubts at rest.” STEWART, HERBERT ARTHUR, Major, was born 18 May, 1878, and was commissioned from the Militia 4 Jan. 1899, in the Suffolk Regt., from which he was transferred to the Army Service Corps 12 Feb. 1900. Capt. Stewart served in the South African War, 1899-1902, he received the Queen’s Medal with three clasps, and the King’s Medal with two clasps. He was Adjutant, Territorial Force, 1 Aug. 1911, to 31 July, 1914. He again saw active service in the European War from Aug. 1914, to the conclusion of hostilities, becoming Major the day war broke out. He was one of the very few British officers who entered Mons on Sunday, 23 Aug. 1914. For his services with the 3rd Division during the First Battles of Neuve Chapelle and Ypres in Oct. and Nov. 1914, he received a D.S.O. awarded "for services in connection with operations in the field.”

Loos: Hill 70

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ISBN 13 : 1783400358
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Loos: Hill 70 written by Andrew Rawson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Loos formed part of a wider offensive conducted by both French and British Forces in September 1915. The British First Army, under the leadership of General Haig, were to break through the German line at Loos thanks in part to their superior numbers, while other operations were to achieve a similar result in Champagne and at Vimy Ridge. Due to lack of artillery the Loos attack was planned to be preceded by a massive gas attack. Chlorine gas would hopefully entirely overcome the Germans inadequate gas masks and lead to a swift breakthrough. Unfortunately all did not go to plan. First some of the gas was blown back into the British trenches causing over 2,000 casualties. Then when the assault itself took place the attackers were met by fierce German resistance, none more so than at Hill 70 where the German defences were strong. Despite many waves of attack, very few troops made it into enemy trenches. After a few days the attack had to be called off. It had cost 60,000 British casualties for virtually no gain. Rudyard Kipling's son John, serving with the Irish Guards, was also lost.

The Footballer of Loos

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Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096250X
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Download or read book The Footballer of Loos written by Ed Harris and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Germans fighting on two fronts were concentrating in the east where the Russians were weakening. In the west, the Allied effort was met with well prepared German defences, and efforts to open a new front on the Gallipoli Peninsula had foundered. Decisive action to break the deadlock on the Western Front saw a mighty attack of six British divisions planned for the autumn of 1915 in the vicinity of the small mining community of Loos en Gohelle where 'The Big Push' would begin. The bitter recriminations that followed the perceived failure reduced the Battle of Loos to a footnote in the history of the Great War for many decades. Entirely lost in translation has been the Boys' Own tale of the Tommy who kicked a football ahead of the charge. That soldier was identified as Rifleman Frank Edwards, and through his original research, Ed Harris clearly establishes for the first time that the first great attack by the British army was begun when Edwards kicked a football towards the German lines. Harris sheds light on what it was like to be a part of this crucial battle and questions the largely held view that Loos was a failure, using material sourced from a wide variety of sources form the Imperial War Museum to the National Football Museum.

The Nation

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Total Pages : 940 pages
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Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases

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Publisher : London : G. Routledge
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Total Pages : 402 pages
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The Spectator

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals. 1923

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Reporting from the Front

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473842743
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Reporting from the Front written by Brian Best and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the war was declared in August 1914, one of the first acts to be implemented by the politicians and military was a strict censorship on the newspapers. As the poacher turned gamekeeper, Winston Churchill said: The war is going to be fought in a fog and the best place for correspondence about the war is London, The military sought to have one of their officers, dubbed “Eyewitness”, to be the official spokesman to enable them to control what the newspapers could print. In the early stages of the war, there were many reporters on the Continent who were evading military arrest and sending back reports about the reality of the situation. Several volunteered with the various ambulance services just to disguise their real purpose, but all were eventually banished. Having finally cleared all reporters from fighting area, the military was persuaded to allow a small number of accredited war reporters to be chaperoned around the battle fronts. They were closely watched and their reports thoroughly scrutinised, until they eventually became almost a part of the Headquarters hierarchy. Later, diaries and letters revealed how many of them really felt and they had to bear the post-war shame of not writing the truth. The Western Front was not the only front in this world war. Reporters found censorship less rigidly applied on the Eastern Front, Palestine and Italy. One correspondent, whose reports famously brought about the sacking of the campaign commander and the ending of the fruitless and bloody Gallipoli Expedition, bravely broke ranks and was finished as a war reporter. War reporting was not confined to print. The emergence of photographers and cinematographers on the battlefield has left us with an extraordinary record. Unlike their writing brothers, the photographers could get close to the action and shoot what they liked. The resultant film was, of course, censored but thankfully nothing was discarded and museum archives are full of their stunning work. Having been the pre-war stars of their newspapers, the war reporters experienced a post-war wave of anger and cynicism which took years to overcome.

Visiting the Somme & Ypres Battlefields Made Easy

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473821398
Total Pages : 170 pages
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The Best Books

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Total Pages : 632 pages
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The First World War, Second Edition

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805076172
Total Pages : 684 pages
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The Monthly Army List

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History of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914-1919 Volume I

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781507937
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book History of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914-1919 Volume I written by Everard Wyrall and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of III This is an impressive history by the most prolific author of Great War divisional and regimental histories, a fine tribute to a regiment that contributed 49 battalions to the nation's war effort, 26 of them served overseas, including the 2nd Battalion which was in India in August 1914 and remained there throughout the war. It is also a tribute to the author who died in 1933, before he could finish the third volume; the final few chapters were completed by Capt W. Synge of the 1st Battalion. All 23 front line battalions served on the Western Front, one of them (14th) in Salonika as well. The Roll of Honour lists 14,200 dead, six VCs were won, one of them by an officer (Capt O.A.Reid) attached to another regiment, and 58 Battle Honours were awarded. This work is set out in chronological order, each volume dealing with a specific period and ending with the Roll of Honour for that period and citations for any VC. Dates are in the margin and so is the identification of the battalion involved in the action being described. Volume 1 carries the story from mobilization to the end of 1915, by which time fourteen battalions had joined the Old Contemptibles of the 1st Battalion in the BEF, and one of these had gone on to Salonika. It has a very useful appendix listing every battalion and where it served and when. As it may be imagined, there is plenty of detail in a history so generous with space as this, with its three volumes, and the narrative is supported with clear maps.

Battle Honours Awarded for the Great War

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Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1781501874
Total Pages : 82 pages
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Download or read book Battle Honours Awarded for the Great War written by HMSO and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Final list of battle honours awarded to each regiment as published under Army Order 55 of February 1925. This order directed that "no further submissions concerning the Great War battle honours will be made." Those to be borne on the Colours or Appointments are shown in bold print.

The Best Books: F, History and historical biography. G, Archaeology and historical collaterals

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Total Pages : 630 pages
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Jack Webster's Aberdeen

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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Jack Webster's Aberdeen written by Jack Webster and published by Birlinn Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aberdeen has had its fair share of attention from historians down the centuries, but in this fresh look at the story, Jack Webster condenses the knowledge and wisdom of past research and his own experience. He observes the city's dramatic transformation in the 20th century, from an economy based on farming, fishing, textiles and granite to a Golden Age that outshone them all. Who could have guessed that the Granite City would take on an international reputation as the oil capital of Western Europe? This thoroughly readable book highlights the people who have left their mark on Aberdeen, from Robert the Bruce to Willie Miller, from Isaac Benzie and Raggie Morrison to Cocky Hunter and Ma Cameron. It brings fascinating tales of war and peace and covers everything from school and university to the history of sport, cinema and theatre, stretching from Lille Langtry to Harry Gordon and Scotland the What?

The Literary Digest International Book Review

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Total Pages : 946 pages
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