Author: Great Britain. Army. Infantry. Regiments. East Surrey Regiment. 12th Battalion
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Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Author: John Aston
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1781515859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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The 12th E Surreys were raised on 14th May 1915 by the Mayor and Borough of Bermondsey, and in October the battalion joined 122nd Brigade, 41st Division, the last of the Kitchener divisions. It remained in the same brigade throughout the war. A year later, May 1916, the division arrived in France where the battalion served until November 1917, when they were sent to Italy. In March 1918 they returned to France where the battalion remained for the rest of the war. The authors have made every effort to be accurate in their account, but the main aim has been to provide a narrative, not so much for the general reader as for the members of the Battalion Association and their friends. In pursuit of this aim they have included plenty of ‘yarns' using the actual words of the individual narrator which, they believe, will prove the best part of the volume. In fact this is the most ‘anecdotal' unit history I have yet come across. Reading it today, some ninety years later, it is clear that these personal contributions add a great deal to the story, bringing a feeling of reality to the scenes being described. There are plenty of references to individuals, references which are always welcome in what amounts to a family history, telling the day-to-day story of a close knit battalion. There is no doubt it will have brought to mind those who died and will have helped to recall incidents, localities, friendships and dangers shared. The division was one selected for the Army of Occupation in Germany and the battalion ended its war service on garrison duty in the Rhine bridgehead. 217 officers and 4,487 other ranks served with the battalion during the war, and total casualties amounted to 128 officers and 2,675 other ranks of whom 38 and 683 respectively died.The appendices contain a wealth of information, of great help to the researcher. There is the nominal roll of officers and men who served with the battalion; there is a list of cemeteries in which the dead are buried, each is numbered and keyed to the Roll of Honour so the place of burial can be checked; and there is the list of honours and awards. This is a very comprehensive history.

Author: John Aston
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Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1308

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Great Britain. - Army. - Infantry. - East Surrey Regiment
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Author: Tony Ashworth
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330480680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The shock and slaugter of the battlefields of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendale is well documented. However, during the smaller battles soldiers could, and often did, make personal decisions. From these evolved a culture of live and let live, which constrained that of kill and be killed.