World War I
The 61st Division lands in France.--Instruction.--The Laventie sector.--Trench warfare at its height.--Moberly wounded.--B Company's raid.--Front and back areas.--July 19.--Changes in the Battalion.--A Company's raid.--A projected attack.--Laventie days.--Departure for the Somme.
German retreat from the Lys.--Orderly Room and its staff.--The new devastated area.--Itchin Farm, Merville and Neuf Berquin.--Mines and booby-traps.--Advance to the Lys.--Estair...
32. CHAPTER XV.Effects of the German offensive.--The Battalion amalgamated with the Bucks.--Entrainment for the Merville area.--A dramatic journey.-- The enemy break-through on the Lys.--The B...
33. CHAPTER XVI.Rations and the Battalion Transport.--At La Lacque.--The bombing of Aire.--General Mackenzie obliged by his wound to leave the Division.--Return of Colonel Wetherall.--Tripp's F...
25. CHAPTER VIII.A German vantage-point.--Shell-ridden Holnon.--A night of confusion.--Preparing for the raid of April 28.--The enemy taken by surprise.--The Battalion's first V.C.--The affair a...
29. CHAPTER XII.The Battalion's return to Arras.--A quiet front.--The Brigadier and his staff.--A novelty in tactics.--B Company's raid.--A sudden move.--The Cambrai front.--Havrincourt Wood.--...
22. CHAPTER V.Early in 1917 it became known to our intelligence service that the enemy was contemplating retirement on a large scale from the Somme battle-front. Reports from prisoners and ae...
27. CHAPTER X.In the war-history of all Battalions there is a season when it is possible to say that they have reached their fulness of development, but have not yet lost all original identit...
19. CHAPTER II.Departure from Laventie.--At Robecq.--The march southwards.-- Rest at Neuvillette.--Contay Wood.--Albert.--New trenches.-- Battle conditions.--Relieving the front line.--Desire...
17. Chapter XVII. LAST BATTLES, August to December, 1918 208German retreat from the Lys.--Orderly Room and its staff.-- The new devastated area.--Itchin Farm, Merville and Neuf Berquin.--Mines and booby-traps.--Advance to the Lys.-- Esta...
24. CHAPTER VII.The news of this threw everything into a miniature ferment. The Berks stopped practising a raid which they were to do on the Brigade's return to the old trenches. The General ro...
26. CHAPTER IX.Relief by the French at St. Quentin.--A new Commanding Officer.-- At the Battle of Arras.--Useful work by A Company.--Harassing fire.--A cave-dwelling.--At Bernaville and Noeux....
21. CHAPTER IV.Visitors to the Battalion.--The New Year.--A wintry march.-- Arrival at Maison Ponthieu.--Severe weather.--At war with the cold.--Training for offensive action.--By rail to Marc...
28. CHAPTER XI.Iberian, Hill 35, and Gallipoli.--The Battalion ordered to make the seventh attempt against Hill 35.--The task.--A and D Companies selected.--The assembly position.--Gassed by o...
18. CHAPTER I.The 61st Division lands in France.--Instruction.--The Laventie sector.--Trench warfare at its height.--Moberly wounded.--B Company's raid.--Front and back areas.--July 19th.--Ch...
23. CHAPTER VI.So far I have said little of the hardships suffered by the Infantry. Indeed, in places I have laughed at them. Those scenes and experiences which marked a soldier's life in the...
20. CHAPTER III.The move from Martinsart to Hedauville.--Back to Martinsart.-- Working parties.--Dug-outs at Mouquet Farm.--Field Trench.-- Return to the front line.--Getting touch.--Guides.--A...
30. CHAPTER XIII.The French relieved on the St. Quentin front.--The calm before the storm.--A golden age.--The Warwick raid.--The German attack launched.--Defence of Enghien Redoubt.--Counter-at...
31. CHAPTER XIV.Rear-guard actions.--The Somme crossings.--Bennett relieved by the 20th Division at Voyennes.--Davenport with mixed troops ordered to counter-attack at Ham.--Davenport killed.--...
16. Chapter XVI. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE,Rations and the Battalion Transport.--At La Lacque.--The bombing of Aire.--General Mackenzie obliged by his wound to leave the Division.--Return of Colonel Wetherall.--Tripp's F...
15. Chapter XV. THE BATTLE OF THE LYS, April-May, 1918 173Effects of the German offensive.--The Battalion amalgamated with the Bucks.--Entrainment for the Merville area.--A dramatic journey.--The enemy break-through on the Lys.--The Th...
14. Chapter XIV. THE BRITISH RETREAT, March, 1918 165Rear-guard actions.--The Somme crossings.--Bennett relieved by the 20th Division at Voyennes.--Davenport with mixed troops ordered to counter-attack at Ham.--Davenport killed.--...
9. Chapter IX. ARRAS AND AFTERWARDS,Relief by the French at St. Quentin.--A new Commanding Officer. --At the Battle of Arras.--Useful work by A Company.-- Harassing fire.--A cave-dwelling.--At Bernaville and Noeux...
13. Chapter XIII. THE GREAT GERMAN ATTACK OF MARCH 21,The French relieved on the St. Quentin front.--The calm before the storm.--A golden age.--The Warwick raid.--The German attack launched.--Defence of Enghien Redoubt.--Counter-at...
11. Chapter XI. THE ATTACK ON HILL 35, September, 1917 132Iberian, Hill 35, and Gallipoli.--The Battalion ordered to make the seventh attempt against Hill 35.--The task.--A and D Companies selected.--The assembly position.--Gassed by o...
1. Chapter I. LAVENTIE, May to October, 1916 8The 61st Division lands in France.--Instruction.--The Laventie sector.--Trench warfare at its height.--Moberly wounded.--B Company's raid.--Front and back areas.--July 19.--Chan...
2. Chapter II. THE SOMME BATTLEFIELD, November, 1916 19Departure from Laventie.--At Robecq.--The march southwards. --Rest at Neuvillette.--Contay Wood.--Albert.--New trenches.--Battle conditions.--Relieving the front line.-- Desire...
4. Chapter IV. AT MAISON PONTHIEU, January-February, 1917 42Visitors to the Battalion.--The New Year.--A wintry march.-- Arrival at Maison Ponthieu.--Severe weather.--At war with the cold.--Training for offensive action.--By rail to Marc...
12. Chapter XII. AUTUMN AT ARRAS AND THE MOVE TO CAMBRAI,The Battalion's return to Arras.--A quiet front.--The Brigadier and his staff.--A novelty in tactics.--B Company's raid.--A sudden move.--The Cambrai front.--Havrincourt Wood.--...
3. Chapter III. CHRISTMAS ON THE SOMME,The move from Martinsart to Hedauville.--Back to Martinsart.-- Working parties.--Dug-outs at Mouquet Farm.--Field Trench.-- Return to the front line.--Getting touch.--Guides.--A...
7. Chapter VII. THE ADVANCE TO ST. QUENTIN,8. Chapter VIII. THE RAID AT FAYET, April, 1917 89A German vantage-point.--Shell-ridden Holnon.--A night of confusion.--Preparing for the raid of April 28.--The enemy taken by surprise.--The Battalion's first V.C.--The affair a...
5. Chapter V. IN THE ABLAINCOURT SECTOR, February, 1917 5310. Chapter X. THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES, August, 1917 1166. Chapter VI. LIFE IN THE FRONT LINE, Winter, 1916-1917 67