Author: Frederick P. Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, 1914-1918
Author: Frederick P. Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
42nd East Lancs Division 1914-1918
Author: Frederick P. Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843426424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This history gives a comprehensive account of the division s exploits albeit with the occasional touch of heroics. The maps are disappointing in that while they show the areas of operations they lack tactical detail. There is, however, a good trench map of the divisional sector on Gallipoli. The photos are very much a bonus. Among the appendices is a thirty-one page Roll of Honour listing the dead and missing by battalions and units, though a footnote observes that complete casualty lists could not be obtained in all cases. The number of dead listed amount to 6,845, including two brigade commanders. Honours and Awards are also shown by units (five VCs in all). There is also a list showing the succession of HQ Staff and commanders down to battalion or equivalent level but without dates of appointment. Finally, and perhaps most annoying, there is no index. When, on 10th August 1914, Kitchener called for volunteers among the TF for service overseas (they had been intended for home service only) some ninety percent of the division accepted and a month later the division sailed for Egypt and thus had the distinction of being the first Territorial division to go overseas. In May 1915 it landed at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, and during the next few months it took part in the Second and Third Battles of Krithia, in the fighting for the Krithia Vineyard and the Achi Baba feature. Evacuation of the division began at the end of December 1915 and the last men were taken off on 9th January 1916. During the campaign it suffered 8,547 casualties - 395 officers and 8152 other ranks; two VCs were awarded. From Gallipoli it returned to Egypt and spent the rest of 1916 with the Canal Defences and in the Sinai Peninsula fighting the Turks. In March1917 it arrived on the Western front where it remained for the rest of the war, and when it ended the division had reached the outskirts of Maubeuge, a few miles south of Mons.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843426424
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This history gives a comprehensive account of the division s exploits albeit with the occasional touch of heroics. The maps are disappointing in that while they show the areas of operations they lack tactical detail. There is, however, a good trench map of the divisional sector on Gallipoli. The photos are very much a bonus. Among the appendices is a thirty-one page Roll of Honour listing the dead and missing by battalions and units, though a footnote observes that complete casualty lists could not be obtained in all cases. The number of dead listed amount to 6,845, including two brigade commanders. Honours and Awards are also shown by units (five VCs in all). There is also a list showing the succession of HQ Staff and commanders down to battalion or equivalent level but without dates of appointment. Finally, and perhaps most annoying, there is no index. When, on 10th August 1914, Kitchener called for volunteers among the TF for service overseas (they had been intended for home service only) some ninety percent of the division accepted and a month later the division sailed for Egypt and thus had the distinction of being the first Territorial division to go overseas. In May 1915 it landed at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, and during the next few months it took part in the Second and Third Battles of Krithia, in the fighting for the Krithia Vineyard and the Achi Baba feature. Evacuation of the division began at the end of December 1915 and the last men were taken off on 9th January 1916. During the campaign it suffered 8,547 casualties - 395 officers and 8152 other ranks; two VCs were awarded. From Gallipoli it returned to Egypt and spent the rest of 1916 with the Canal Defences and in the Sinai Peninsula fighting the Turks. In March1917 it arrived on the Western front where it remained for the rest of the war, and when it ended the division had reached the outskirts of Maubeuge, a few miles south of Mons.
The Territorial Divisions, 1914-1918
Author: John Stirling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
History of the East Lancashire Regiment in the Great War 1914-1918
Author: Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
42nd East Lancashire Division 1914-1918
Author: Frederick P. Gibbon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843426059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843426059
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918
Author: Edmund Dane
Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The British Army 1914-1918
Author: Andrew Rawson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750958650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An indispensable guide to the British Army during the First World War covers the men who fought for Britain: from the 'Old Contemptibles' – the professionals who stemmed the German advance at the beginning of the war – to the Territorials, the 'Derby Men', Kitchener's 'New Army' and the conscripts who eventually defeated the Kaiser's armies four years later. Andrew Rawson examines the impressive contributions made by the Dominions and the Empire and explores aspects of doctrine, training, communications, strategy and tactics, together with divisional organisations, histories and the roles of the different Arms and Services. He reviews all aspects of the soldier's everyday life – uniforms, equipment, rations, trench life, leave and military discipline – and profiles the commanders and the legacy of the war in art, as well as providing information on cemeteries and places of interest. It is all here, in one book.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750958650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
An indispensable guide to the British Army during the First World War covers the men who fought for Britain: from the 'Old Contemptibles' – the professionals who stemmed the German advance at the beginning of the war – to the Territorials, the 'Derby Men', Kitchener's 'New Army' and the conscripts who eventually defeated the Kaiser's armies four years later. Andrew Rawson examines the impressive contributions made by the Dominions and the Empire and explores aspects of doctrine, training, communications, strategy and tactics, together with divisional organisations, histories and the roles of the different Arms and Services. He reviews all aspects of the soldier's everyday life – uniforms, equipment, rations, trench life, leave and military discipline – and profiles the commanders and the legacy of the war in art, as well as providing information on cemeteries and places of interest. It is all here, in one book.
The Fifty-Second (Lowland) Division, 1914-1918
Author: Ralph Reakes Thompson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The War History of the 1st/4th Battalion the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal North Lancashire Regiment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1914-1918
Author: Sir James Edward Edmonds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description