EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Coldstream Guards  1914 1918 Vol  II  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book The Coldstream Guards 1914 1918 Vol II Illustrated Edition written by Lt. Col. Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 27 maps “History of the four active service battalions in the Great War with details of officers’ services during the war. The Coldstream Guards had three battalions in August 1914, all three committed to the BEF: the 1st Battalion was in the 1st (Guards) Brigade, 1st Division; the 2nd and 3rd were both in 4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division. As soon as war broke out a Reserve battalion (the 4th) was formed which provided drafts of 16,860 all ranks during the course of the war. In July 1915 a further battalion was raised as the Guards Pioneer Battalion for the Guards Division which was then being formed. This battalion was numbered 4th and the reserve battalion became the 5th. In all the Regiment suffered 14,137 casualties of which the dead numbered 180 officers and 3,860 other ranks. Seven VCs were won and 36 Battle Honours awarded. Volume I takes the story to the end of the Somme offensive, volume II begins with the situation at the end of 1916 after the Somme and carries through to the return of the Regiment to London in March 1919 and the Royal Review on the 22nd of that month when the Guards Division marched past their Colonel in Chief, the King. This is a well written history in which the author gives a good and detailed account of the Regiment’s actions, often with casualty details following various battles and nominal rolls of officers present for duty. He also comments on the wider issues, some of which had nothing to do with the Coldstream, not only on higher strategy on the Western Front but also on other campaigns such as Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Italy where no Guards battalions served, and it is in discussing these wider issues that he is sometimes frankly critical, allocating blame where he feels it belongs.Print ed.

Book The Coldstream Guards  1914 1918 Vol  I  Illustrated Edition

Download or read book The Coldstream Guards 1914 1918 Vol I Illustrated Edition written by Lt. Col. Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes 27 maps “History of the four active service battalions in the Great War with details of officers’ services during the war. The Coldstream Guards had three battalions in August 1914, all three committed to the BEF: the 1st Battalion was in the 1st (Guards) Brigade, 1st Division; the 2nd and 3rd were both in 4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division. As soon as war broke out a Reserve battalion (the 4th) was formed which provided drafts of 16,860 all ranks during the course of the war. In July 1915 a further battalion was raised as the Guards Pioneer Battalion for the Guards Division which was then being formed. This battalion was numbered 4th and the reserve battalion became the 5th. In all the Regiment suffered 14,137 casualties of which the dead numbered 180 officers and 3,860 other ranks. Seven VCs were won and 36 Battle Honours awarded. Volume I takes the story to the end of the Somme offensive, volume II begins with the situation at the end of 1916 after the Somme and carries through to the return of the Regiment to London in March 1919 and the Royal Review on the 22nd of that month when the Guards Division marched past their Colonel in Chief, the King. This is a well written history in which the author gives a good and detailed account of the Regiment’s actions, often with casualty details following various battles and nominal rolls of officers present for duty. He also comments on the wider issues, some of which had nothing to do with the Coldstream, not only on higher strategy on the Western Front but also on other campaigns such as Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Italy where no Guards battalions served, and it is in discussing these wider issues that he is sometimes frankly critical, allocating blame where he feels it belongs.Print ed.

Book The Coldstream Guards 1914 1918

Download or read book The Coldstream Guards 1914 1918 written by John Ross-of-Bladensburg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1914   1918 Volume 2

Download or read book COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1914 1918 Volume 2 written by Ross of Bladensburg and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coldstream Guards  1914 1918

Download or read book The Coldstream Guards 1914 1918 written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Coldstream Guards  1914 1918

Download or read book The Coldstream Guards 1914 1918 written by Sir John Foster George Ross-of-Bladensburg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scots Guards in the Great War  1914 1918

Download or read book The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914 1918 written by Francis Loraine Petre and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1914   1918 Volume 3

Download or read book COLDSTREAM GUARDS 1914 1918 Volume 3 written by J Kaye and Col Malleson and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coldstream Guards 1914 1918

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross of Bladensburg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781843424666
  • Pages : 1087 pages

Download or read book Coldstream Guards 1914 1918 written by Ross of Bladensburg and published by . This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 1087 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coldstream Guards had three battalions in August 1914, all three committed to the BEF: the 1st Battalion was in the 1st (Guards) Brigade, 1st Division; the 2nd and 3rd were both in 4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division. As soon as war broke out a Reserve battalion (the 4th) was formed which provided drafts of 16,860 all ranks during the course of the war. In July 1915 a further battalion was raised as the Guards Pioneer Battalion for the Guards Division which was then being formed. This battalion was numbered 4th and the reserve battalion became the 5th. In all the Regiment suffered 14,137 casualties of which the dead numbered 180 officers and 3,860 other ranks. Seven VCs were won and 36 Battle Honours awarded. The author died in 1926 before he could correct or even read the proofs of any part of his history, and this aspect of his work was carried through by a committee which decided to leave the text as he wrote it, apart from minor corrections of dates and fact. It is suggested that had he lived he might well have altered some of his criticisms of the Government in the light of information which became available later. This is explained in prefatory note. Volume I takes the story to the end of the Somme offensive, volume II begins with the situation at the end of 1916 after the Somme and carries through to the return of the Regiment to London in March 1919 and the Royal Review on the 22nd of that month when the Guards Division marched past their Colonel in Chief, the King. This is a well written history in which the author gives a good and detailed account of the Regiment s actions, often with casualty details following various battles and nominal rolls of officers present for duty. He also comments on the wider issues, some of which had nothing to do with the Coldstream, not only on higher strategy on theWestern Front but also on other campaigns such as Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, Palestine and Italy where no Guards battalions served, and it is in discussing these wider issues that he is sometimes frankly critical, allocating blame where he feels it belongs (as indicated in the prefatory note referred to above). I wonder how much he would have changed. Appendices include the war service record of all officers who served in the Regiment with any awards; awards to the Other Ranks; VC citations; list of those commissioned from the ranks (410 of them) and the regiments or corps to which they went and finally the Roll of Honour of officers. There is no index.

Book The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 1918 Volume 2

Download or read book The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 1918 Volume 2 written by Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...and everything had to be hidden as far as possible. The men were constantly employed in carrying up ammunition and war material to the front trenches, an arduous and dangerous task since they were continually under shell-fire. Private Bignell of Chapter No. 4 Company behaved with great coolness and xxn. gallantry in carrying from a dug-out a box of 3rd Batt. Vey lights which had been set on fire by a pine-i9i7. apple bomb. For this he received the Military Medal. On the 18th Second Lieutenant W. H. S. Roper joined, and on the 21st the Battalion took over the right Brigade Sector near Boesinghe, with Nos. 1 and 2 Companies in the front trench. For five days the Battalion remained in the trenches, during which time it suffered much from shell-fire. Second Lieutenant H. R. Ogle was wounded but remained at duty, and the casualties among other ranks were 27 killed, 11 died of wounds, 45 wounded, 10 gassed, 7 to hospital from concussion. Second Lieutenant G. Webster made an excellent reconnaissance of the Canal, and discovered four places where it could be crossed without the men getting very wet. No. 4 Company was to have carried out a raid to ascertain the strength of the enemy, but at the last moment the order was cancelled. On the night of the 26th the Battalion was relieved by the 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, and retired again to the Forest Area to rest before the attack by the Division on the 31st. The 4xH Battalion 4th Batt. The officers of the 4th Battalion on April 1, April. 1917, were. Lieut.-Colonel G. C. Hamilton, D.S.O...... Commanding Officer. Major W. S. Pilcher... Second in Command. Capt. R. S. Lambert, M.C... Adjutant. Lieut. I. H. Ingleby Lieut. J. B. M. Burke. 2nd Lieut. C. E. Benson Capt. C. G. Keith, M.C.. Lieut. J. N....

Book A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army

Download or read book A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army written by Arthur S. White and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.

Book The Publishers  Circular and Booksellers  Record

Download or read book The Publishers Circular and Booksellers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saluki

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Patrick Duggan
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-01-10
  • ISBN : 0786484624
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Saluki written by Brian Patrick Duggan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the oldest known breeds of domesticated dogs, the Saluki traveled throughout the Middle East with desert tribes, who valued the dogs for their ability to hunt gazelles. Famously painted on the walls of the Pharaohs' tombs, the Salukis' history intrigued English dog enthusiasts who were instrumental in popularizing the breed and importing it to Europe and the United States in the early 20th century. This book tells the story of those who brought the Saluki to the West, most notably Florence Amherst, who discovered the dogs while in Egypt and went on to breed 50 litters. Other world travelers who fell under the Salukis' spell included Lady Anne Blunt, Austen Layard and Gertrude Bell. Also covered are lesser-known Saluki aficionados, mainly military officers who hunted with their hounds in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt and sought to replicate that experience at home.

Book Sounds of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Hanna
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-05
  • ISBN : 110848008X
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Sounds of War written by Emma Hanna and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music in all its forms was an indispensable part of everyday life in Britain's armed forces during the Great War.

Book The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 1918  Volume II

Download or read book The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 1918 Volume II written by Sir Frederick Ponsonby and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book The Illustrated War News

Download or read book The Illustrated War News written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 1918

Download or read book The Grenadier Guards in the Great War of 1914 1918 written by Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby (baron Sysonby) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: