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This brief memoir is the apologia by the Captain of the British Battleship ''Implacable'' - the only warship that successfully landed men at X Beach on Gallipoli''s Cape Helles on 25th April 1915. Captain Lockyer succeeded where other Captains failed by bringing his ship in close to the shore and raked the beaches themselves with shellfire from its 12" guns - disobeying orders to concentrate his fire on the coastal ridges above the beaches. Captain Lockyer writes that had other ships behaved as ''Implacable'' did, the attacking soldiers of 29th Division would not have gone into what he calls a ''Death Trap''. He blames this on a change of the original orders to shell the beaches which was made only four days before the landings. This book, then, short though it is, is a notable and controversial contribution to the tragic history of the Gallipoli campaign which should not be missed by any serious student of the subject.

Largely seen as a purely British affair, the fact that the South African War ( or Boer War) involved troops from the Dominions of the British Empire is too often forgotten. This book helps right this historical memory lapse, telling as it does the full story of Canada''s military role in the conflict. IN fact Canada''s contribution was a major one, as this book amply attests. Some 8,300 Canadian soldiers served in South Africa; 242 of them were killed in action and many awards were won - including four Victoria Crosses. The first Canadian contingent consisted of eight companies; the second of two battalions and five batteries of artillery; along with Strathcona''s Horse. This book is based both on the official despatches of Lieut.-Col. W.D. Otter and other senior officers; along with cables sent by Canadian war correspondents accompanying their forces. There are appendices listing the names of the officers and men who fought; along with a Roll of Honour. This book restores a neglected page to the record of Canada''s proud military history.

No ship saw longer service, nor played a more prominent part in the ultimately disastrous but heroic Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns than the venerable battleship HMS Cornwallis. She was the second ship to arrive in the area - after HMS Vengeance - at the commencement of the landings in Suvla Bay in April 1915, and she was present at the withdrawal and evacuation of the Allied bridgehead in December, firing her guns to cover the departure, and setting Turkish stores ablaze. This book - aptly titled The Immortal Gamble, a phrase uttered by Winston Churchill to describe the campaign he largely initiated - tells the entire story of Cornwallis''s operations, and therefore is an important narrative of the campaign itself. Co-Written by Cornwallis''s acting Commander, A.T. Stewart, and by the ship''s chaplain, the Rev. C.J.E.Peshall, this is an unmissable book for all those interested in naval operations in the Great War - and Gallipoli in particular. It contains, as well as a stirring account of the action, a Roll of Honour; a full list of awards - including the VC awarded to Cornwallis crew member Midshipman Malleson - and officers'' rolls.

Robert Baden Powell''s Scout movement was in its springtime when the Great War broke out in 1914. Emerging from the pioneering first camp on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Scouting for boys soon spread like wildfire throughout the British Empire and by the time of the war, there were thousands of Scouts who flocked to join their country''s colours. This anthology presents a selection of heroic deeds performed by Scouts in the conflict in suitably admiring terms. In his foreword, Baden Powell himself stresses the self-sacrifice; self-discipline and social equality of the Scouts as the key factors in their heroism. The deeds recorded here range from the famous self-sacrifice of ''Boy Jack Cornwell at Jutland - as act which won him a posthumous VC - to Piper David Laidlaw''s equally brave exploit when he walked along the trench parapet during the battle lf Loos playing the pipes to encourage his comrades. Laidlaw survived the action to win another celebrated VC. This is the perfect book for all former Boy Scouts - and for anyone interested in stirring deeds performed by brave men and boys in war. It also contains lengthy details of numerous awards, from MMs to VCs and the lives of leading Scouts killed in action during the Great War.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

This is a brisk account, compiled in 1923, eight years after the events it narrates, of the doings of the 1st and 2nd (Regular) battalions of the ''Glorious Glosters'' in the opening weeks of the Great War. Flung into France as part of the BEF in August 1914, the Regiment passed through the furnace of some of the fiercest fighting during those chaotic weeks, including the Retreat from Mons and the First abttle of Ypres, wheh the German avance was finally stemmed and held. Compiled from the recollections of those who survived, this is a valuable account of the proud fighting record of the old regular army that was practically destroyed in the fighting narrated here.

Described by its author as ''a labour of love'' this is an history of the 9th Territorial Battalion of the King''s (Liverpool Regiment.) First raised in 1859, the Battalion embarked for France to fill holes torn in the Regular Army in 1914: they sustained their first casualties at Neuve Chapelle the following month. Thereafter the Battalion was in action at Aubers Ridge, Loos, the Somme, and Passchendaele. The text is accompanied by a list of Battalion Honours and awards.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

Regimental history of the Welch Regiment - one of the proudest and oldest formations in the British Army - is divided into two parts. The first section details the history of the Regiment from its origins as the Regiment of Invalids which became the 41st Regiment of Foot in the 18th century, down to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. It details its service in the West Indies during the seven Years'' War; action on Corsica and Toulon in the French Revolutionary War and its duties as a Marine Regiment serving in some of the greatest sea battles of the age, including the Glorious First of June; the Battle of the Saints and the Battle of St Vincent with Admirals Nelson and Jervis. In the 19th century, the Welch served in India; against America in the War of 1812; the Waterloo campaign; the Afghan wars and the Crimean and Boer Wars.

Members of Presbyterian Church, (24,000 Names,) arranged under congregation, who were serving with units from Britain and its empire. The principle information given for each person, whereas being similar to Soldiers Died in the Great War, quite often contains additional facts, and elaboration on how killed or wounded etc. For example, the entry''s,Wounded, Gassed, Wounded and Prisoner, Lost Leg, Twice Wounded, Died Prisoner of War, Accidentally Killed, Died in Hospital, have been noticed. Details of war medal entitlement and other odd facts frequently occur, Includes Women and many who survived the war.

This 1911 manual on transporting troops by rail was reprinted with amendments after the outbreak of war in 1914. War by rail timetable - when vast numbers of men were moved by rail - was a vital part of the opening weeks of the war. The manual covers the general duties of railway transport personnel; the entraining and detraining of troops; the movement of stock supplies and animals; ambulance trains; armoured trains; the capacity of rolling stock and co-operation with and supervision of civilian railway personnel. It provides a very detailed picture of the organisation of railway traffic in wartime.

This 1917 manual of musketry training is designed to instruct all infantry ranks in the use and care of their rifles, even under the gruelling battle conditions of the western front in the fourth year of the Great War. It is also aimed at instructing Commanding officers to make the best use of their men''s firepower under all conditions. There are chapters on the care and maintenance of arms; on visual training and distance judging; fire discipline and range firing; and section, platoon and company training.

The author of this unusual Great War memoir, R. A. Lloyd, was an Irish-born working-class man with ambitions - later fulfilled - to become a teacher. He enlisted in the 1st Battalion, the Life Guards in 1911 and by the time the Great War broke out was a Corporal of Horse. The memoir has great value as a portrait of the class conscious life in one of the British Army''s traditionally elite cavalry regiments. There are scenes - familiar to anyone who has seen the hit play ''War Horse'' - of a Life Guard''s life both in barracks at Knightsbridge, London and behind the trench lines of the Western front. The author witnesses the aftermath of the first gas attack near Ypres in 1915 and many other scenes - both sparklingly funny and sombrely sad - of the war. A fascinating period piece.

Britain''s Fourth Army, under Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson, was the force that bore much of the brunt of the campaign that this official history calls ''the Hundred Days'' - the great counter attack beginning on August 8th 1918 which finally forced the German command to sue for the Armistice that came into effect on November 11th, ending the Great War in the west. Germany''s commander Gen. Paul von Hindenburg called August 8th ''the black day of the German army in this war'' and it was indeed the beginning of the end. The high tide of Ludendorff''s Spring Offensives had been halted just before the vital cathedral city and road and rail junction of Amiens, and on August 8th, spearheaded by Australian troops and a strong force of tanks, the Allies hit back. New tactics had at last been learned after the futile offensives of 1915,1916, and 1917, and the Allied troops moved forward under the cover of ''creeping barrages'' in small, fast-moving groups tasked to achievable ''bite and hold'' operations. When resistance stiffened the attack would be broken off and renewed on another part of the line. By such means the seemingly impregnable Hindenburg Line - which made use of canals and tunnels to form a mighty defence barrier - was rapidly broken and the offensive passed into the open country to the east. The final battles fought by the Fourth Army early in November were in near Le Cateau, ironically the site of the battle in 1914 that had begun the war. This history, written by an officer on Fourth Army staff, gives the full story of the campaign, accompanied by many photographs, a separate volume of maps and excellently drawn battlefield panoramas. There are also appendices on German prisoners taken; battlefield casualties; orders of battle; ammunition expended; and accounts of VCs won.

A unit history with contemporary echoes - the story of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry in Mesopotamia ( Iraq) and battling the Bolsheviks in Russia during and after the Great War.

Unit history of the Regiment which attempted the first and last cavalry charge on the Western Front - at HIgh Wood on the Somme on July 14th 1916. Of interest to all keen on the Great War, the history of cavalry and the Indian army.

Parts 3a and 3b (here published in one volume) of A. F. Becke's classic Order of Battle of the British Army in the Great War lists Kitchener's New Army Divisions. 9th - 26th Inf Divs. 30th - 41st Inf Divs. and the 63rd (Royal Naval) Div. With appendices on the raising of the first three New Armies and the war establishments of the 14th (Light) Division in England in 1915 and in France in 1918; the 23rd Division in Italy in 1918; the 10th (Irish) division in Palestine, 1918; the 11th (Northern) division, Gallipoli,1915; the 26th division, Macedonia, 1915 and 1918 and the 13th (Western) division, Mesopotamia, 1918.