Download or read book The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914 1918 written by John Cecil Latter and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914 1918 written by J. C. Latter and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914 1918 written by J. C. LATTER and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MY BIT written by George Ashurst and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Ashurst served with the Lancashire Fusiliers, taking part in First Ypres, Gallipoli and the Somme, and enduring months of trench warfare on the Western Front, making numerous grim and dangerous patrols into no man's land. His memoirs vividly reveal the reality of life in the trenches and the feelings of those who had to suffer it. Ashurst was often frightened and uncertain, occasionally infuriated by the 'shirking' amongst the officers, was usually ready for a cigarette or drink, but when his battalion attacked he would not shrink from his duty. My Bit is a fascinating and moving first-hand account of the First World War written by a working-class soldier.
Download or read book The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914 1918 By Major General J C Latter With Maps written by Great Britain. Army. Infantry. Regiments. Lancashire Fusiliers and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Bit written by George Ashurst and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War History of the 1st 4th Battalion 1914 1918 written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War History of the 1st/4th Battalion is about the 1st and 4th battalions of England. You will be thrilled to see these authentic and primary source documents and records from the first World War. Contents: Early History and Training in England, Early Days and the Battle of Festubert, Trench Warfare, and The Somme Battles, cont.
Download or read book The War History of the 1st 4th Battalion the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment written by Great Britain. Army. Royal North Lancashire Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the East Lancashire Regiment in the Great War 1914 1918 written by Sir Cecil Lothian Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the 2 6th Lancashire Fusiliers written by C. H. Potter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great War 1914 1918 and 1919 The Lancashire Fusiliers Roll of Honour written by Great Britain. Army. Infantry. Regiments. Lancashire Fusiliers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Bit written by George Ashurst and published by . This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Ashurst served with the Lancashire Fusiliers, taking part in First Ypres, Gallipoli and the Somme, and enduring months of trench warfare on the Western Front, making numerous grim and dangerous patrols into no man's land. His memoirs vividly reveal the reality of life in the trenches and the feelings of those who had to suffer it. Ashurst was often frightened and uncertain, occasionally infuriated by the 'shirking' amongst the officers, was usually ready for a cigarette or drink, but when his battalion attacked he would not shrink from his duty. My Bit is a fascinating and moving first-hand account of the First World War written by a working-class soldier.
Download or read book History of the East Lancashire Regiment written by Lancashire Museum and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the East Lancashire Regiment was extended to no less than seventeen battalions during the Great War, and was represented on every front from France to Mesopotamia, it will be readily understood that it has not been possible to record here all the deeds which made yet more honoured the name of the East Lancashire Regiment.But it is hoped that those who served with the Regiment will find something in these pages which will recall old memories, and that the younger generation will be enabled to gain some small insight into a life that the accident of birth has spared them from experiencing.Four members of the Regiment gained the Victoria Cross. Two of these lost their lives in winning this highest award to which a soldier can aspire, and one deliberately threw away his own life in order that his comrades might be saved from certain death.Of such material were the men made who went forth to fight for the honour and glory of their Regiment.If this book does anything to perpetuate their memory it will have served its purpose.
Download or read book St Quentin written by Philip Guest and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2000-09-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the First World War, how many thousands of British families would have proud or bitter reason to remember the name St Quentin? At least eight Divisions, 23 Brigades, 74 Battalions an enormous number of fighting men, a weight of experience, courage, defeat and victory, all to be traced through these fields and villages round the city. There is much to honour here: exhausted British troops marching south in the Retreat from Mons in August 1914, resistance attacks on the Hindenburg Line in 1917, desperate feats of arms in the final German onslaught in the Spring of 1918. Many impressive individual and collective achievements, captured guns, Victoria Crosses richly earned. The ancient city itself suffered too - bombardment by French and British artillery, its citizens subjected and exploited by the occupying German forces, then evacuated ahead of the withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line - before its final liberation in October 1918. The book gives details of positions, redoubts, attacks, lines of advance and retreat, with many illustrations provided from local sources. Most of the positions described can still be traced and the sites of some epic events located.
Download or read book Salford Pals a History of the Salford Brigade written by Michael Stedman and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salford was late in recruiting for its Pals battalions, with many of its men already joining Territorial units and a new Pals battalion in Manchester. Yet within a year it had raised four Pals battalions and a reserve battalion. Raised mainly from Lancashire's most notorious slums, the men trained together in Wales, North East England and on Salisbury Plain, they had great expectations of success. On the 1st of July 1916 the Somme offensive was launched and in the very epicenter of that cauldron the first three of Salford's battalions were thrown at the massive defenses of Thiepval - the men were decimated, Salford was shattered. Michael Stedman records the impact of the war from the start on Salford and follows the difficulties and triumphs. Whether the actions small or great the author writes graphically about them all. Unusual photographs and a variety of sources make this both a readable and a scholarly account.
Download or read book The History of the 26th Lancashire Fusiliers which Amalgamated Successively with the 1 6th and the 12th Battalion of the Same Regiment written by C. H. Potter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
