On Four Fronts With The Royal Naval Division During The First World War 1914 1918

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On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division During the First World War 1914-1918

Author : Geoffrey Sparrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857067159
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division During the First World War 1914-1918 written by Geoffrey Sparrow and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Jackets who fought on land The time of Nelson was not only notable because of the success in nautical warfare of the man himself, but also because it was the zenith of the 'age of sail' that left British sea power so dominant that Britannia really did 'rule the waves.' No navy could stand against the might of the Royal Navy, and so until Jutland during the Great War it would not fight another major battle at sea. Queen Victoria's ever expanding empire meant that British forces were perpetually set against often underdeveloped powers and the navy took its part, but most of the hard work of empire building would inevitably fall upon the British army. Of course, the Royal Navy had its own 'soldiers'-the Royal Marines. The particular talents and skills of sailors were often required, particularly whilst manning 'the guns, ' so the 19th century saw the 'blue jackets' in action in the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the Zulu War, the Boer War and several other conflicts. The early years of the 20th century brought a period of instability that inexorably dragged the great powers of Europe towards the cataclysm of blood which was to be the Great War of 1914-18. The entire British Empire mobilised and the industrial efficiency of modern methods of war and the global nature of the conflict drew more and more men into the services. The Royal Naval Division was formed around a cadre of Royal Marines and sailors and was expanded as a unit of the New Army by volunteers. The Division saw action in the defence of Antwerp in 1914, on Helles and Anzac during the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 and on the Western Front where it took part in the Battle of the Somme in 1916 and the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917. This book was written by one of the their number and is an often light-hearted account of the wartime record of the division, full of incident and anecdote and scattered with occasionally humorous line drawings. There is little in print about the Royal Naval Division in the First World War so this will make a welcome addition to any naval library. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division

Author : Geoffrey Sparrow
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division written by Geoffrey Sparrow and published by London ; Toronto : Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 1918 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ON 4 FRONTS W/THE ROYAL NAVAL

Author : Geoffrey Sparrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781372501463
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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On Four Fronts With the Royal Naval Division (Classic Reprint)

Author : Geoffrey Sparrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331204749
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book On Four Fronts With the Royal Naval Division (Classic Reprint) written by Geoffrey Sparrow and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On Four Fronts With the Royal Naval Division The Authors have given us at first hand in fascinating form an absorbing and realistic narrative of stirring times in the annals of the Royal Naval Division. They have seen with their own observant eyes, and been themselves a part of all they describe in many lands. Accuracy is the dominant note through all their graphic pen and pencil pictures. It was my privilege to see this wonderful Division in the making when the raw material was composed of an assortment of men strangely varied, but of a high physical standard. They were all keen to learn, the war being urgent and dispatch necessary. Hence in a marvellously short time they became transformed by their Marine and Naval Instructors into the wonderful fighting-men portrayed in these pages. Of good physique to start with, their training imbued them with the ready resource of the sailor and the precision of the soldier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division

Author : Geoffrey Sparrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division written by Geoffrey Sparrow and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Khaki Jack

Author : E. C. Coleman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445634090
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Khaki Jack written by E. C. Coleman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous fighting divisions of the British Army in World War One was the Royal Naval Division. Ernie Coleman tells its story, from training at Crystal Palace to the Zeebrugge Raid.

The Royal Naval Division

Author : Douglas Jerrold
Publisher : London, Hutchinson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Royal Naval Division written by Douglas Jerrold and published by London, Hutchinson. This book was released on 1923 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nelson at War 1914-1918

Author : Roy Swales
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781526761149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Nelson at War 1914-1918 written by Roy Swales and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Royal Naval Division, a fighting formation of naval ratings and Royal Marines, was formed at the instigation of Winston Churchill at the beginning of the First World War. At first under the control of the Admiralty, it fought at the defense of Antwerp in October 1914 and through the whole of the Gallipoli campaign. In 1916 the Admiralty handed the Division over to Army control. Re-named the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, it fought with great distinction and success with the BEF in France and Belgium. The division was always an odd ball formation, fighting under the White Ensign, and its eight naval battalions were named after great admirals. The greatest of them all, Vice Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson, gave his name to Nelson Battalion. Like the other naval battalions, the Nelson had a complement of officers and ratings of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and Royal Fleet Reserve seamen and stokers. Nearly 800 would lose their lives in the three and half years of its fighting existence. The book traces the history of Nelson Battalion from August 1914 to February 1918 when it was disbanded. Against the background of the battalions movements and battles the fate of its sailor-soldiers is revealed, more than 300 individuals being mentioned in the text. A full roll of honor is also included.

A History of the Royal Navy: World War I

Author : Mike Farquharson-Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857726978
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book A History of the Royal Navy: World War I written by Mike Farquharson-Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to be largely naval. This was a war of ideologies fought by and for empires. Britain was not defending simply an island; it was defending a far flung empire. Without the navy such an undertaking would have been impossible. In many respects the Royal Navy fought along the longest 'front' of any fighting force of the Great War, and it acted as the leader of a large alliance of navies. The Royal Navy fought in the North and South Atlantic, in the North and South Pacific, its ships traversed the globe from Australia to England, and its presence extended the war to every continent except Antarctica. Because of the Royal Navy, Britain could finance and resource not only its own war effort, but that of its allies. Following the naval arms race in the early 20th century, both Britain and Germany were equipped with the latest naval technology, including revolutionary new vessels such as dreadnoughts and diesel-powered submarines. Although the Royal Navy's operations in World War I were global, a significant proportion of the fleet's strength was concentrated in the Grand Fleet, which confronted the German High Seas Fleet across the North Sea. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916 the Royal Navy, under the command of Admiral Jellicoe, fought an iconic, if inconclusive battle for control of shipping routes. The navy might not have been able to win the war, but, as Winston Churchill put it, she 'could lose it in an afternoon'. The Royal Navy was British power and prestige. 43,244 British navy personnel would lose their lives fighting on the seas in World War I. This book tells their story and places the Royal Navy back at the heart of the British war effort, showing that without the naval dimension the First World War would not have been a truly global conflict.

Britain's Sea Soldiers

Author : Sir Herbert Edward Blumberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Sea Soldiers written by Sir Herbert Edward Blumberg and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea 1914-18

Author : Julian Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330540769
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Imperial War Museum Book of the War at Sea 1914-18 written by Julian Thompson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on gripping first-hand testimony from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this book reveals what it was really like to serve in the Royal Navy during the First World War. It was a period of huge change – for the first time the British navy went into battle with untried weapon systems, dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft and airships. Julian Thompson blends insightful narrative with never-before-published stories to show what these men faced and overcame. Officers and men, from admirals down to the youngest sailors faced the same dangers, at sea in often terrible weather conditions, with the ever-present prospect of being blown to pieces, or choking to death trapped in a compartment or turret as they plunged to the bottom of the sea. In their own words they share their experiences, from from long patrols and pitched battles in the cold, rough water of the North Sea to the perils of warfare in the Dardanelles; from the cat-and-mouse search for Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee in the Pacific to the dangerous raids on Ostend and Zeebrugge. We see what it was like to spend weeks in the cramped, smelly submarines of the period, or to attack U-boats from unreliable airships.

Portsmouth's World War One Heroes

Author : James Daly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951990
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Portsmouth's World War One Heroes written by James Daly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 6,000 men from Portsmouth are believed to have been killed during the First World War – the greatest loss of life that the city has ever known. Not only were thousands of Portsmouth soldiers killed on the Western Front, but Portsmouth-based ships were sunk throughout the war, causing massive loss of life. Thanks to a wealth of sources available and painstaking use of database software, it is possible to tell their stories in more detail than ever before. James Daly builds an extremely detailed picture of Portsmouth's First World War dead, down to where they were born and where they lived. Not only will their powerfully poignant stories tell us about how the war was fought and won, and their sacrifices, but they will also provide a vividly clear picture of how Portsmouth and its people suffered during the war to end all wars.

The British Sailor of the First World War

Author : Quintin Colville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784420727
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book The British Sailor of the First World War written by Quintin Colville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen – a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor's life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East African coast to the North Sea. Meals in the stokers' mess and the admiral's cabin; the claustrophobic terrors of the engine room or submarine; the long separations from loved ones that were the shared experience of all ranks; the perils faced by Royal Naval Air Service pilots in the air; the possessions treasured by sailors while at sea – drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished materials from the National Maritime Museum archives, this is an authoritative and vivid account of lives lived in quite extraordinary circumstances.

Naval Warfare 1914–1918: The History of World War I

Author : Tim Benbow
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1906626162
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Naval Warfare 1914–1918: The History of World War I written by Tim Benbow and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant shipping. The British Royal Navy systematically hunted them down, though not without some embarrassment from its inability to protect Allied shipping. However, the bulk of the German East-Asia squadron did not have orders to raid shipping and was instead underway to Germany when it encountered elements of the British fleet. Soon after the outbreak of hostilities, Britain initiated a naval blockade of Germany. The strategy proved effective, cutting off vital military and civilian supplies. The 1916 Battle of Jutland developed into the largest naval battle of the war, the only full-scale clash of battleships during the war. The Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, squared off against the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, led by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. The engagement was a standoff, as the Germans, outmaneuvered by the larger British fleet, managed to escape and inflicted more damage to the British fleet than they received. Strategically, however, the British asserted their control of the sea, and the bulk of the German surface fleet remained confined to port for the duration of the war. German U-boats attempted to cut the supply lines between North America and Britain. The nature of submarine warfare meant that attacks often came without warning, giving the crews of the merchant ships little hope of survival. The U-boat threat lessened in 1917, when merchant ships entered convoys escorted by destroyers. With the last few men who served in World War I now dying out, and the 90th anniversary of the Armistice coming in November 2008, there is no better time to reevaluate this controversial war and shed fresh light on the conflict. With the aid of numerous black and white and color photographs, many previously unpublished, the World War I series recreates the battles and campaigns that raged across the surface of the globe, on land, at sea and in the air. The text is complemented by full-color maps that guide the reader through specific actions and campaigns.

The Hood Battalion

Author : Leonard Sellers
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819415
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Hood Battalion written by Leonard Sellers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1993-09-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hood Battalion saw some of the fiercest fighting of the First World war particularly at Antwerp, in the Gallipoli Campaign and then again on the West Front at the Ancre, Gavrelle and Passchendaele. The author lets the participants tell their own story, having expended prodigious labour in unearthing the many first-hand accounts of the Hood's exploits. It is indeed a tale told by heroes.

The Eastern Front 1914-1917

Author : Norman Stone
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141938854
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Front 1914-1917 written by Norman Stone and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and Russian sources, it sharply revises traditional assumptions about the First World War.' Michael Howard

Air and Sea Power in World War I

Author : Maryam Philpott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857721828
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Air and Sea Power in World War I written by Maryam Philpott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War tore the fabric of Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism in war, Air and Sea Power in World War I focuses on the experience of World War I from the perspective of British pilots and sailors themselves, to demonstrate that the army-centric view of war studies has been too limited. The Royal Flying Corps, created in 1912, adapted quickly to the needs of modern warfare, driven by the enthusiasm of its men. In contrast, the lack of modernisation in the Royal Navy, despite the unveiling of HMS Dreadnought in 1906, undermined Britain's dominance of the seas. By considering five key aspects of the war experience, this book analyses how motivation was created and sustained. What training did men receive and how effectively did this prepare them for roles that were predominantly non-combative? How was motivation affected by their individual relationship with weaponry development, and how different was defensive service on the Home Front, when in close proximity to ordinary civilian life? Finally, Air and Sea Power in World War I looks at the changing reputation of the services during and after the conflict, and the extent to which these notions were created by the memoirs of pilots and sailors. Featuring new primary source material, including the journals of service men themselves, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of World War I and of Naval, Aviation and Military History.