The nineteenth Division : 1914-1918 / by Everard Wyrall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyrall, Everard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--Great Britain.

World War, 1914-1918.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : The Naval & Military Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 19th (Western) Division, known as the "Butterflies" from its divisional sign, an open-winged butterfly, began to assemble on Salisbury Plain in September 1914, one of the divisions of Kitchener's Second New Army. It sailed for France in July 1915 and came under command of the Indian Corps, and at the end of August took over its first sector of line, Givenchy to Festubert, from the 7th Division. The division's first major taste of action was the battle of Loos, and although only one of i...

Contents:

Cover; Front Matter; Contents; By the Same Author; Frontispiece; Title Page; List of Illustrations; List of Maps; Body Matter; I: The Call to Arms; II:Introduction to Trench Warfare; III: The Battle of Loos; IV: The Winter of 1915-1916; V: The Battles of the Somme; VI: The Battle of Albert; VII: High Wood; VIII: An Interlude; IX: The Battle of the Ancre; X: The Winter of 1916-1917; XI: The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line; XII: In the Ypres Salient; XIII: The Battle of Messines; XIV: The Battles of Ypres, 1917; XV: The Last Winter in the Trenches; XVI: The German Offensives in Picardy

XVII: The German Offensives in FlandersXVIII: The German Offensives in Champagne; XIX: The Advance to Victory; XX: The Last Phase; Conclusion; Some Personalities of the Division; Awards of the Victoria Cross to the 19th Division; Back Matter; Index

Notes:

"With 7 photographic illustrations and 8 battle plans."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-69858-7

1-78150-631-0

OCLC:

772845628