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Book Synopsis Three Years with the 9th (Scottish) Division by : William Denman Croft
Download or read book Three Years with the 9th (Scottish) Division written by William Denman Croft and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1919 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Years with the 9th Scottish Division by : William D. Croft
Download or read book Three Years with the 9th Scottish Division written by William D. Croft and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Years with the 9th-Scottish-Division ... With Illustrations and Maps by : William Denman Croft
Download or read book Three Years with the 9th-Scottish-Division ... With Illustrations and Maps written by William Denman Croft and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919 by : John Ewing
Download or read book The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919 written by John Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Three Years with the 9th Scottish Division ; Croft, W[illiam] D[enman]. by : William Denman Croft
Download or read book Three Years with the 9th Scottish Division ; Croft, W[illiam] D[enman]. written by William Denman Croft and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919 by : John Stewart
Download or read book The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919 written by John Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the 9th (Scottish) Division by : John Ewing
Download or read book History of the 9th (Scottish) Division written by John Ewing and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division by : John Ewing (M.C.)
Download or read book The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division written by John Ewing (M.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Ninth(Scottish)Division by : Naval & Military Press, The
Download or read book History of the Ninth(Scottish)Division written by Naval & Military Press, The and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the 8th (Light) Division was re-numbered 14th, the 9th (Scottish) became the senior division of the first of Kitchener s New Armies. It came into being towards the end of August 1914, and although the history has very little to say about its training this period is graphically and amusingly described in The First Hundred Thousand , a novel by Ian Hay who was an officer in the division. The 9th began its move to France on 8 May 1915, the first of the New Army divisions to go on active service, and at the beginning of July it took over a sector of the line around Festubert. Its first major battle was Loos (September 1915) in which it suffered 6,000 casualties in three days; among the dead was the divisional commander, Major-General Thesiger. The first half of 1916 was spent in the Plugstreet sector during which time Churchill was there, commanding 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers. In May 1916 one of the brigades, the 28th, was broken up and replaced by the South African Brigade, which had just arrived from Egypt; it proved to be one of the finest brigades in the BEF. For the first three weeks of July the division was on the Somme - Bernafay, Longueval and Delville Wood (now the site of South Africa s National Memorial) - with losses of 7,200. After a rest and a month in the Vimy sector it returned to the Somme in October, near the Butte de Warlencourt. Several unsuccessful attacks against that feature resulted in a further 3,100 casualties. From December 1916 to August 1917 the division was on the Arras front, taking part in the First and Third Battles of the Scarpe (5,000 casualties) before moving to Ypres in September at the height of Third Ypres. A month s fighting there cost nearly another 5,000 casualties. In 1918 the division distinguished itself during the German offensive, earning the praises of the C in C and even of the Kaiser, and in the final advance to victory. The 9th Scottish was a first class division. It gained seven VCs and the total casualty list amounted to some 54,600. It was selected to be part of the Army of the Rhine, one of four New Army divisions, and in March 1919 it was renamed The Lowland Division. The division s record is graphically described in this history - what Field Marshal Lord Plumer in his foreword referred to as a record of wonderful development of fighting efficiency. There are useful appendices giving the Order of Battle, command and staff lists with the various changes; a table showing periods spent in the line, with locations; a table of battle casualties and the VC citations. The maps are good with adequate detail for actions to be followed.
Book Synopsis The History of the 9th - Scottish - Division, 1914-1919. By John Ewing ... With ... Illustrations [including Portraits] and Maps by : Great Britain. Army. Division, 9th
Download or read book The History of the 9th - Scottish - Division, 1914-1919. By John Ewing ... With ... Illustrations [including Portraits] and Maps written by Great Britain. Army. Division, 9th and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919 by : John Ewing
Download or read book The History of the 9th (Scottish) Division, 1914-1919 written by John Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Partizan Classics by : Lieutenant Col W.D. Croft
Download or read book Partizan Classics written by Lieutenant Col W.D. Croft and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Battle Tactics of the Western Front by : Paddy Griffith
Download or read book Battle Tactics of the Western Front written by Paddy Griffith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have portrayed British participation in World War I as a series of tragic debacles, with lines of men mown down by machine guns, with untried new military technology, and incompetent generals who threw their troops into improvised and unsuccessful attacks. In this book a renowned military historian studies the evolution of British infantry tactics during the war and challenges this interpretation, showing that while the British army's plans and technologies failed persistently during the improvised first half of the war, the army gradually improved its technique, technology, and, eventually, its' self-assurance. By the time of its successful sustained offensive in the fall of 1918, says Paddy Griffith, the British army was demonstrating a battlefield skill and mobility that would rarely be surpassed even during World War II. Evaluating the great gap that exists between theory and practice, between textbook and bullet-swept mudfield, Griffith argues that many battles were carefully planned to exploit advanced tactics and to avoid casualties, but that breakthrough was simply impossible under the conditions of the time. According to Griffith, the British were already masters of "storm troop tactics" by the end of 1916, and in several important respects were further ahead than the Germans would be even in 1918. In fields such as the timing and orchestration of all-arms assaults, predicted artillery fire, "Commando-style" trench raiding, the use of light machine guns, or the barrage fire of heavy machine guns, the British led the world. Although British generals were not military geniuses, says Griffith, they should at least be credited for effectively inventing much of the twentieth-century's art of war.
Book Synopsis Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919 by : J. Stewart
Download or read book Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914-1919 written by J. Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The senior of Kitchener s Second New Army Divisions, the 15th (Scottish) was raised at Aldershot in September 1914 with a nucleus of men surplus to the requirements of the 9th (Scottish) Division and brought up to strength with drafts sent down from Scotland. It arrived in France in July 1915 and its first major battle was at Loos in which it captured its objectives, Loos itself and Hill 70, at a cost of 6, 404 casualties. All five VCs the division was to be awarded were won during the battle, four of them in twenty-four hours at Hill 70. The division remained in this sector till July 1916 when it moved down to the Somme where it achieved a notable success in capturing Martinpuich on 15th September. It took part in the Arras offensive in April 1917 and three months later it was fighting in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge during Third Ypres. It was back in the Arras sector when the German March 1918 offensive was launched and where the division held the enemy drive on Arras. For a short spell in July/August the division was under French command and took part in the capture of Buzancy and neighbouring villages. Total casualties throughout the war amounted to 45,542. This is an excellent history, well set out and with very good maps to support the interesting and well-written account of the division s record. A most useful innovation is the provision of marginal notes which highlight events described in the accompanying text, and the top of each page is dated, a most welcome feature in a fast-moving narrative. A remarkable feature is the number of appendices which take up 192 pages and provide a wealth of detail: Order of Battle; Commanders and Staff both divisional and brigade with all changes; chronology of moves and events; casualties by battalions/units by dates with officers named and other ranks tabulated; complete list of recipients of Honours and Awards, by battalions/units. Of special interest are the operation orders for the Battle of Loos and the translation of a German report on the battle.
Book Synopsis Three Years with the 19th (Scottish) Division by : W. D. Croft
Download or read book Three Years with the 19th (Scottish) Division written by W. D. Croft and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the 9th Scottish Division, 1914-1919 ; Introd. by Lord Plumer by : John Ewing
Download or read book The History of the 9th Scottish Division, 1914-1919 ; Introd. by Lord Plumer written by John Ewing and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 9th - Scottish - Division Memorial, Arras, April 9, 1922. By Ian Hay. With Illustrations by : Great Britain. Army. 9th Division
Download or read book 9th - Scottish - Division Memorial, Arras, April 9, 1922. By Ian Hay. With Illustrations written by Great Britain. Army. 9th Division and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: