Walter Tull would have been a remarkable individual no matter when he had been born, but to achieve what he did, during the time that he did, makes him even more remarkable.
Encouraged by the success of an attack on Messines Ridge on 7 June 1917, Field Marshal Haig ordered that his generals should continue their preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres. Delayed due to...
Story of the 7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. With the creation of the Territorial Force in 1908 the battalion was re-designated as the 7th Battalion. It went to France in April 1915 with the rest...
The 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
by John Sheehan
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399075350
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2025-04-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword Military
352 Pages
General Haig accused the Yorkshire Territorials of being ˜too sleep" to fight well on the Somme, but the 1/5th Battalion proved him wrong. Mainly drawn from Harrogate, York, Ripon and the surrounding...
The First World War was the first conflict in history to be fought in the air, as well as on land and at sea. Britain’s fledgling air arms, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service,...
Kut: The Death of an Army is the fascinating, yet largely forgotten, story of the British-Indian Army that was besieged in Mesopotamia from 1915 to 1916. It is an expert account of the tragic five-month...
The year 1918 was the most dramatic of the entire First World War. It was defined by vast battles that put the British Army under enormous pressure. In March, the army found itself fighting for survival...
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