Download or read book Historical Records of the 16th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers written by Charles Herbert Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 16th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 1914 1918 With Plates and Maps written by Charles Herbert COOKE and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 16th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers written by Charles Herbert Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 16th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers written by Newcastle and Gateshead Incorporated Chamber of Commerce (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 16th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusilier written by Charles Herbert Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 18th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pioneers written by John Shakespear and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 16th Service Battalion written by C. H. Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 9th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers written by Charles Herbert Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Newcastle Commercials written by Ian S. Johnson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 1111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planning for the raising of what was to become 16th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, started within two days of the outbreak of the war. The initial efforts took on a more professional look within a month, when the Newcastle Chambers of Commerce set about raising money and aiming to raise several battalions in response to Lord Kitchener's call for men. The outcome was a Pals battalion, the 1st Newcastle Commercials. Arriving in France at the end of 1915, the battalion, like so many others of its type, had its first experience of a major action on the Somme on 1st July 1916, in its case in the forlorn attempt to capture the German front line village of Thiepval. The outcome is well known; a disaster that ravaged the battalion's ranks. However, the battalion was reinforced, reorganized, and took its part in actions at Ovillers and along the Ancre as the battle grinder on over the next four and a half months. In 1917 it was involved in the advance on the Hindenburg Line and was then transferred to the North Sea coast, with the intention of taking part in the daring plan to launch a major amphibious landing behind the German lines in the summer. This was thwarted by a masterly pre-emptive German counter stroke. By the end of the year the battalion was engaged in operations in the northern part of the Salient after the Battle of Third Ypres (Passchendaele) had formally ended. In early February 1918 the battalion was disbanded as part of a general reorganization of the BEF, which saw divisions losing three of their twelve infantry battalions. In outline it is a common story; but, as for all the Pals battalions, its unusual origins and its very close connection to a local area, in this case Newcastle, provides an enduring fascination for today's generation. Ian Johnson has worked extraordinarily hard to gather documents from members of the battalion - letters, diaries, and recollections - as well as numerous photographs. He has prepared extensive appendices on its membership and its casualties. The outcome is a fitting tribute to these young men from Newcastle men of a century ago who, for whatever motive, answered their country's call, all too many of whom paid for it with their lives or their health.
Download or read book Historical Record of the Fifth Regiment of Foot Or Northumberland Fusiliers written by Richard Cannon and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 9th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers 1914 1919 With Plates and Maps written by Charles Herbert COOKE and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 9th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers written by Newcastle and Gateshead Incorporated Chamber of Commerce (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 19th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pioneers 1914 1919 With Plates and Maps written by Charles Herbert COOKE and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Records of the 19th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pioneers written by C. H. Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Kitchener s Army written by Peter Simkins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.
Download or read book Historical Records of the 18th Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pioneers With Maps and Plates written by John Shakespear and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
