Download or read book The History of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 written by Walter de Burley Wood and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the King OS Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 written by W. De B. Wood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 1st July 1881, the 53rd Shropshire Regt and the 85th King s Light Infantry amalgamated to become the 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI); the Shropshire Militia became the 3rd Special Reserve (SR) Battalion. On the outbreak of war in 1914 the regiment consisted of four battalions: the 1st (Ireland), 2nd (India), the 3rd and the 4th (Territorial) were in Shrewsbury. During the course of the war the establishment of the regiment was raised to thirteen battalions, eight of them (1st, 2nd, 1/4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th) went on active service, between them in France and Flanders, Mesopotamia and Palestine while the remainder furnished drafts and took part in home defence. Fifty-two battle honours and one VC were awarded; 4,710 died. Covering eight battalions in one book does not allow for much detail, in fact descriptions of actions and operations tend to be summaries. However, there are plenty of names in the text, officers and other ranks. The contents are arranged in eleven chapters, one for each of the eight front line battalions, each with a map covering its areas of operation; one for the Depot; one for the reserve battalions and a final one describing activities at home. Appendices provide the roll of honour of officers, roll of honour of other ranks listed by battalion, British and Foreign awards, mentions in despatches and mentions in the Press and awards of brevet rank. Finally there is an index.
Download or read book The History of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 Edited by Major W de B Wood With Maps written by Great Britain. Army. King's Shropshire Light Infantry and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 Ed by W de B Wood written by W. de B. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Corps of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry The 85th The King s Light Infantry Regiment 1759 1881 written by Great Britain. Army. King's Shropshire Light Infantry and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 written by R. C. Bond and published by . This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Corps of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry The Shropshire Militia and Volunteers written by Great Britain. Army. King's Shropshire Light Infantry and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the King s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry written by Reginald Copleston Bond and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book King OS Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 written by R. C. Bond and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time to time the illustrated weekly magazine The War Illustrated published passport size photos of officers killed, usually a page at a time. The first such page comes in Volume I on page 76; the heading is: Among the First to Fall - Some of Our Dead Heroes. The first picture on that page is that of the author of this book, Lt-Col R.C Bond. Since this book was published in 1929 we clearly have an early example of the ghost writer. In fact, Lt-Col Bond was commanding the 2nd Battalion, KOYLI, and was taken prisoner at Le Cateau, though modesty prevents him mentioning the fact when he describes his battalion s part in the battle. Like many of the infantry regiments of the line the KOYLI began the war with five battalions: the 1st and 2nd (in Singapore and Dublin respectively); the 3rd Special Reserve at the Depot in Pontefract, and two Territorial battalions, the 4th in Wakefield and the 5th in Doncaster. Subsequently the two TF battalions each raised second and third line battalions, both the former (2/4th and 2/5th) went to France, and ten Service or Reserve battalions were also raised, numbered 6th to 15th. Of these, the 6th to 10th and the12th were formed in August/September 1914 and went on active service, while the 15th was formed in France in June 1918. All these battalions served on the Western Front, two of them also served on other fronts - the 1st in Salonika and the 8th in Italy. Fifty-nine battle honours were awarded, 9447 all ranks died and eight VCs were won. The first chapter is concerned with the 2nd Battalion (13th Brigade, 5th Division) and takes the story from Mons to January 1915 when the 1st Battalion arrived with the newly formed 28th Division. The next chapter is their story from the move from Singapore to their first couple of months in the trenches, to early April 1915. There is a chapter describing the raising of the wartime battalions and with all those that went overseas there is the nominal roll of officers who embarked with them. The writer addresses the problem of relating the record of the several battalions in a history of comparatively moderate size by describing in greater detail the most important actions in which the regiment was involved, identifying the battalions engaged, and summarising the periods between thus giving a chronological account of the war. There is an index but no roll of honour nor list of awards; these are noted in the text as are officer casualties by name and other ranks by totals. The result is a very competent piece of work by someone reported killed at the beginning of the war. Maps and illustrations are very good.
Download or read book History of the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Vol 3 written by R. C. BOND and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The History of the Corps of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry By W Rogerson and Others written by Great Britain. Army. King's Shropshire Light Infantry and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of The King s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 1918 Bond Reginald C opleston written by Reginald Copleston Bond and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The King s Shropshire Light Infantry 53rd 85th written by Great Britain. Army. King's Shropshire Light Infantry and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Corps of the King s Shropshire Light Infantry written by and published by King's Shropshire & Herefordshire Light Infantry. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 1462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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