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The Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914-1918
'The Glorious Glosters' Founded in 1881, the Gloucestershire Regiment saw service in many conflicts. In The Gloucester Regiment in the War 1914-1918 Everard Wyrall provides a detailed, in-depth history of the Regiment's involvement in First World War. Sixteen battalions of the Gloucestershire Regiment served during First World War, with postings in France, Flanders, Italy, Gallipoli, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Macedonia. In France, much of the Regiment saw action on the Western Front, with their first casualties of war sustained during the retreat from Mons. On the Western Front, various battalions of the Glosters saw action in the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Aubers Ridge, the ...
Tracing British Battalions on the Somme
Although seventy-eight years have passed since the Battle of the Somme was fought, interest in this, the bloodiest battle of the First World War, has never waned. Ray Westlake has collated all the information so painstakingly gathered, to produce a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every battalion involved in the battle. This book is invaluable not only to researchers but to all those visiting the battlefield and anxious to trace the movements of their forbears.
British Battalions on the Somme
An account of the infantry battalions belonging to regiments of the British Army and the 63rd (Royal Naval Division) during their service in the Somme area. Although seventy-eight years have passed since the Battle of the Somme was fought, interest in this, the bloodiest battle of the First World War, has never waned. Ray Westlake has collated all the information so painstakingly gathered, to produce a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every battalion involved in the battle. This book is invaluable not only to researchers but to all those visiting the battlefield and anxious to trace the movements of their forebears.
KitchenerÂ’s Army
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 experience...
British Politics, Society and Empire, 1852-1945
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Trevor O. Lloyd as teacher, scholar, mentor and friend -- 2 Introduction -- 3 A party for 'peers and parsons?' The social composition of the Irish Conservative party and its electoral consequences, 1852-68 -- 4 Florence Nightingale reconsidered as the founder of modern nursing -- 5 Britain, muckraking and transnational exchanges -- 6 Politics and the social sphere: the Primrose League during the First World War -- 7 Baldwin's Empire: Canada 1927 -- 8 Experiences of British prisoners of war in the Far East: death and their relatives at home from 1942 -- A bibliography: Trevor O. Lloyd -- Index
British Battalions in France & Belgium
The author has painstakingly compiled a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every regiment involved on the various battlefields in France and Flanders during World War One.
