Author: John Sheehan
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473868149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Using original personal and military diaries, with hundreds of carefully selected newspaper extracts, letters and photographs, this book traces individual stories of tragedy and heroism, involving tradesmen, apprentices, lawyers, musicians, sportsmen, brothers, husbands and fathers from Harrogate and the West Riding. As such, it characterises the experience of the British Infantryman in the Great War.The Territorials of the 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment were the unsung heroes of the Great War. These Saturday Night Soldiers from York and the northern West Riding of Yorkshire went out to face the might of the German Army in April 1915. Through the hot summer and dark winter that followed, they stopped bullets at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and choked on Phosgene gas at Ypres. Caught in the carnage of the notorious first day on the Somme, the West Yorkshire Territorials were held up by General Haig as convenient scapegoats for his tactical failure, only for the 1/5th Battalion to prove him wrong and redeem itself as an attacking force at the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, and then again at Passchendaele in 1917. In the last year of the war, the battalion helped fight a rear-guard action on the Menin Road, and was effectively wiped out at the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, only to be re-constituted in time to take part in the bloody advances at Cambrai and Valenciennes, which helped bring the conflict to an end.
Harrogate Terriers
Author: John Sheehan
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473868149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Using original personal and military diaries, with hundreds of carefully selected newspaper extracts, letters and photographs, this book traces individual stories of tragedy and heroism, involving tradesmen, apprentices, lawyers, musicians, sportsmen, brothers, husbands and fathers from Harrogate and the West Riding. As such, it characterises the experience of the British Infantryman in the Great War.The Territorials of the 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment were the unsung heroes of the Great War. These Saturday Night Soldiers from York and the northern West Riding of Yorkshire went out to face the might of the German Army in April 1915. Through the hot summer and dark winter that followed, they stopped bullets at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and choked on Phosgene gas at Ypres. Caught in the carnage of the notorious first day on the Somme, the West Yorkshire Territorials were held up by General Haig as convenient scapegoats for his tactical failure, only for the 1/5th Battalion to prove him wrong and redeem itself as an attacking force at the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, and then again at Passchendaele in 1917. In the last year of the war, the battalion helped fight a rear-guard action on the Menin Road, and was effectively wiped out at the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, only to be re-constituted in time to take part in the bloody advances at Cambrai and Valenciennes, which helped bring the conflict to an end.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473868149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Using original personal and military diaries, with hundreds of carefully selected newspaper extracts, letters and photographs, this book traces individual stories of tragedy and heroism, involving tradesmen, apprentices, lawyers, musicians, sportsmen, brothers, husbands and fathers from Harrogate and the West Riding. As such, it characterises the experience of the British Infantryman in the Great War.The Territorials of the 1/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment were the unsung heroes of the Great War. These Saturday Night Soldiers from York and the northern West Riding of Yorkshire went out to face the might of the German Army in April 1915. Through the hot summer and dark winter that followed, they stopped bullets at the Battle of Aubers Ridge and choked on Phosgene gas at Ypres. Caught in the carnage of the notorious first day on the Somme, the West Yorkshire Territorials were held up by General Haig as convenient scapegoats for his tactical failure, only for the 1/5th Battalion to prove him wrong and redeem itself as an attacking force at the Battle of Thiepval Ridge, and then again at Passchendaele in 1917. In the last year of the war, the battalion helped fight a rear-guard action on the Menin Road, and was effectively wiped out at the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, only to be re-constituted in time to take part in the bloody advances at Cambrai and Valenciennes, which helped bring the conflict to an end.
Huddersfield Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445658526
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Huddersfield has changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445658526
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Huddersfield has changed and developed over the last century.
Vale of York Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445631873
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Vale of York has changed and developed over the last century
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445631873
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the Vale of York has changed and developed over the last century
Central Leeds Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445656450
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Central Leeds has changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445656450
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Central Leeds has changed and developed over the last century.
Cadbury & Fry Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445627256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which chocolate production has changed and developed over the last century
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445627256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which chocolate production has changed and developed over the last century
In & Around York District Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628910
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which York and its surrounding villages have changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628910
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which York and its surrounding villages have changed and developed over the last century.
Hartlepool Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628562
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hartlepool has changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628562
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Hartlepool has changed and developed over the last century.
York Industries Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632519
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which York's Industries have changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632519
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which York's Industries have changed and developed over the last century.
In & Around Pocklington Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628872
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Pocklington and the surrouding areas have changed and developed over the last century
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628872
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Pocklington and the surrouding areas have changed and developed over the last century
York Places of Learning Through Time
Author: Paul Chrystal
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632527
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which York's Places of Learning have changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445632527
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which York's Places of Learning have changed and developed over the last century.