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Book Synopsis The Book of the Bantams by : H. Hudson Stoddard
Download or read book The Book of the Bantams written by H. Hudson Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cheshire Bantams by : Stephen McGreal
Download or read book The Cheshire Bantams written by Stephen McGreal and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in Birkenhead in 1914 the Bantams were unique as the average height of the volunteers was a mere five foot! Previously denied the opportunity to serve, these men seized this chance to join up. As a result the battalions comprised working class men from all over Britain - Welsh miners, sturdy London dockers, Lancashire mill workers and Merseyside laborers. As part of 35th (Bantam) Division, the Bantams fought on the Somme. The Bantams' casualties were so severe that by early 1917 the Division effectively ceased to exist. Thereafter reinforcements came from the General Pool. They suffered heavily again at Houlthust Forest. The 35th Division played a key part in stopping the German 1918 offensive. Some 900 members of these Battalions lost their lives in The Great War.
Book Synopsis The Bantams Down-to-date by : Joseph Shakespeare
Download or read book The Bantams Down-to-date written by Joseph Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Manchester Bantams by : Caroline Scott
Download or read book The Manchester Bantams written by Caroline Scott and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1916 Major Eustace Lockhart Maxwell, a former Indian cavalry officer, was given command of an infantry battalion in France. After 48 hours with his new unit, Maxwell wrote to his family: The outstanding characteristic of those who belong to it seems to be their extraordinary self-complacency! Esprit de corps is a fine thing, but the satisfaction with which they regard themselves, their battalion, its internal economy, its gallantry, its discipline, its everything else, is almost indecent! If at the end of a month my opinion of them is half as good as their own, I shall think myself uncommonly lucky. This was the 23rd Manchester Bantam Battalion, a unit entirely composed of men of a height between 5ft and 5ft 3, and its esprit de corps was about to be severely tested. The Bantams left colorful, characterful, moving and often amusing records of their experiences. Using a wealth of previously unpublished sources, this book follows the Manchester men through their training, their experiences of the Somme and the Third Ypres Campaign, to Houthulst Forest where, in October 1917, the Battalion was practically annihilated.
Download or read book The Bantams written by Sidney Allinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The citizens of LeHavre weren't prepared for the bizarre sight that greeted them after a British troopship arrived in the harbour in January, 1916, with a fresh contingent of reinforcements for the Western Front... the troops marched down the gangplanks and along the quay as though they were mocking the traditional image of the stalwart soldier. They were about five feet tall, miniature Guardsmen, more like mascots than fighting men... And so the first battalion of the Bantams, as they were officially called, prepared for battle. They soon proved they were equal in stamina and greater in valor than standard-sized soldiers. By 1918, more than 50,000 Bantams, including 2,000 from Canada, had been in the trenches and their casualties were enormous. Yet the story of the Bantams and their outstanding contribution to the war has been forgotten, overlooked, or deliberately concealed by army historians, who were perhaps embarrassed by the episode and mistakenly feared that such little men, and the army's need to use them somehow revealed weaknesses in the British character But thanks to a Toronto military historian, their story is now told for the first time, and it's enough to make short men stand tall. Sidney Allinson deserves credit for ferreting out the fascinating tale and for preserving it in the face of official indifference and even hostility. He was able to track down 300 surviving Bantams and make good use of unpublished journals and letters. His experience documents again the widespread illogical prejudice against people who happen to be short." William French, The Globe & Mail. INTRODUCTION The little men in khaki seemed unbelievably small to be British soldiers. Barely over five feet in height, they swarmed over the decks of the Channel steamer Caesarea, moving briskly to shouted orders of sergeants, to sling rifles, packs, and kitbags, then file quickly down the ribbed gangplank to the Le Havre quay. Short legs bowed under their heavy loads of equipment, they tramped ashore loudly and cheerfully baahing. The tiny soldiers of the Cheshire Regiment amazed the French onlookers. After two years of war, the local civilians thought themselves blasé to the variety of types of soldiers the British Empire brought through the port. They had seen black Nigerians, giant Australians, bronzed New Zealanders and Maoris, colourful Rajputs and Sikhs, confident Canadians, splendid Grenadiers, and even blue-uniformed Chinese labourers, but never anything like these almost Lilliputian newcomers. Certainly, no unit ever arrived with such an irreverent display. Boots polished to a black sheen, buttons and brasses glinting in the grey early morning, trousers pressed and puttees tight, soft peaked caps set square on heads, the men were like miniature Guardsmen in their smart military turnout, but the noises they made were like nothing ever heard at Caterham Barracks. "Baaaah! Baaaah! Baaaah !" After being shunted across southern England in crowded trains for over twenty-four hours, packed into a wallowing tub of a ship through a night of miserable Channel weather, denied breakfast, and kept standing on deck in full marching order for two more weary hours, the short sturdy men saluted their orders to be finally herded ashore by giving tongue to a chorus of prolonged sheeplike noises. "Baaaah !" They swung down the gangway onto the docks. Seeing these uniformly small soldiers loaded with the kit of war, struggling gamely under the weight, yet cheerfully voicing their opinion of all set in authority over them, convulsed many French onlookers. The laughter grew as furious sergeants and Provost Corpsmen barked orders for silence and chivvied the troops into more orderly groups. The mirth spread infectiously to the soldiers themselves, until the docks were a chaos of hilarity. A red-faced Rail Transport Officer clattered up on a horse, to take a horrified look at the scene of hundreds of British soldiers
Download or read book The Bantam written by R J Theodore and published by Robot Dinosaur Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ehli is an iscillian, designed in a lab to serve as a bantam, a ship custodian for a merchant crew. She imagines no future beyond the care of her starship and the quiet hours between ships spent painting in her quarters. But when she discovers a vague clue that undermines the clear purpose of her existence, the satisfaction she once found in her simple routine dissolves into an unsettling, deadly obsession to learn the truth. Her job is to put the needs of her ship and its crew before her own, but every step she takes to investigate her origins—the origins of all iscillian across the galaxy—drags her away from the life she knew and deeper into danger. But Ehli can’t ignore what she’s learned. She must know what secrets have been kept from her, and she’s willing to risk everything to uncover them. THE BANTAM transports you to a distant corner of space, introduces you to the most adorable invertebrate you’ve ever met, and sets up a mystery to propel Ehli forward into a new life of exploration and adventure.
Download or read book Pacific Poultrycraft written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Poultry Craft written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Cheshire Bantams by : Stephen McGreal
Download or read book Cheshire Bantams written by Stephen McGreal and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in Birkenhead in 1914 the Bantams were unique as the average height of the volunteers was a mere five foot! Previously denied the opportunity to serve, these men seized this chance to join up. As a result the battalions comprised working class men from all over Britain Welsh miners, sturdy London dockers, Lancashire mill workers and Merseyside laborers.As part of 35th (Bantam) Division, the Bantams fought on the Somme. The Bantams casualties were so severe that by early 1917 the Division effectively ceased to exist. Thereafter reinforcements came from the General Pool. They suffered heavily again at Houlthust Forest. The 35th Division played a key part in stopping the German 1918 offensive. Some 900 members of these Battalions lost their lives in The Great War.
Book Synopsis Country Life in America by : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Download or read book Country Life in America written by Liberty Hyde Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Poultry Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Genetics of the Old English Game Bantam by : Timothy L. Shelton
Download or read book The Genetics of the Old English Game Bantam written by Timothy L. Shelton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genetics of the Old English Game Bantams is the MUST HAVE book that ALL poultry enthusiast, hobbyists, and breeders should read. It is well written and easy to understand. If you have an interest in color patterns, comb types and morphological characters this book will lead you down the correct path to making your own experiments and crosses. Get your copy today, sit back, crack open the cover and you will not be able to put it down. You will want it by your side for all your genetics questions and experiments.
Book Synopsis Poultry-craft by : John Henry Robinson
Download or read book Poultry-craft written by John Henry Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: