Cambridgeshire Kitcheners: A History of 11th (Service) Battalion (Cambs) Suffolk Regiment Tapa dura - 2017

Pen and Sword Military, 3/3/2017 12:00:01 AM. hardcover. Like New. 1.1811 9.2913 6.3780.

Pen & Sword. New in New dust jacket. 2016. Hardcover. New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £25.00.; A history of the Battalion raised in Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, and its service on the Western Front. Illustrated. ; 320 pages .

Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2016. In the opening months of the First World War, 1,500 men from Cambridgeshire came forward to serve their country as a battalion in Kitchener's New Army. They came from the city and they came from the fields. Many had never left the county before, let alone their country, and all too many would never return. Whether farm labourers, shop assistants, bricklayers, chauffeurs, university scholars or college porters, men from all walks of life united and became the Cambridgeshire Kitcheners. Sent to the Western Front in January 1916, they took part in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Battle of the Somme. One hundred and eighty-seven men lost their lives on 1 July 1916, most within a few minutes of each other, as they marched over the top into no man's land and shell and machine-gun fire. This was not the end of their story. In early April, the battalion saw fierce fighting during the Battle of Arras and in a doomed assault on a heavily… Leer más

Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 2016. Hardcover. New.

Pen and Sword Military. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1.

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