Civil Service Rifles in the Great War : All Bloody Gentlemen'

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Jill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army. Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Europe.

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

Local Subjects:

Great Britain. Army. Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles.

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Europe.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Pen and Sword, 2005.

Summary:

Made up entirely of volunteer civil servants and their friends and despite the Government's reluctance to release them, the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles fought with distinction at Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai, Salonika and Palestine. As casualties mounted, the Rifles' spirit and loyalties strengthened. The Author draws on numerous personal accounts, graphically written, as well as official records.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One - Victorian Volunteers and Edwardian Terriers""; ""Civil Service Rifle Volunteers (CSRV)""; ""The South African War""; ""The Territorial Force""; ""The pre-war Civil Service""; ""Saturday afternoon soldiers""; ""Chapter Two - �The 17th March Men�""; ""Training at Somerset House""; ""�Kicking our heels in Hertfordshire�""; ""Why volunteer?""; ""Reorganization""; ""The 1st Battalion of March 1915""; ""Who were the 17th March men?""

""Chapter Three - France 1915: �Many Little Items of Dirty Work�""""First taste of the trenches""; ""The Battles of Aubers Ridge and Festubert""; ""Summer 1915 � recovery and reorganization""; ""The Battle of Loos""; ""Hulluch""; ""Morale""; ""Temporary relief""; ""Hairpin trench""; ""Christmas 1915""; ""End of the first year in France""; ""Chapter Four - France 1916: �Damned Silly Orders�""; ""Recruitment in England""; ""The Vimy ridge sector""; ""Disaster on Vimy Ridge""; ""Recovery""; ""�A forbidden topic of conversation�""; ""Trek to the Somme""; ""Under-age soldiers""

""Arrival on the Somme""""�We never saw anything quite like High Wood�""; ""Phase two of High Wood""; ""�Brilliant success� or �wanton waste�?""; ""The Butte de Warlencourt""; ""Chapter Five - The Ypres Salient and Bourlon Wood 1916-1917""; ""The raid - �could not be improved upon�""; ""Reinforcements""; ""Winter in the Salient""; ""Battle training""; ""Messines � 7 June 1917""; ""Casualties and awards""; ""A well-earned �holiday�""; ""Passchendaele""; ""Interlude, September � November 1917""; ""Bourlon Wood""; ""First phase, 28 November � 1 December""

""Triumphal march through Lille: 28 October""""Chasing the Germans across the Scheldt""; ""Chapter Seven - Formation, Training, Ireland and France""; ""Training in England""; ""Irish interlude""; ""Social composition""; ""�Gunfire and mixed feelings�""; ""The raid, 11 September""; ""Chapter Eight - The Balkans, 1916-1917""; ""�No man who did that march will ever forget it�""; ""�The quietest war we ever had�""; ""Goldies""; ""Chapter Nine - The Middle East, 1917-1918""; ""Into the desert""; ""Training hard for the attack""; ""Leadership and morale""

""Capture of Beersheba, 31 October 1917""

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781783036035

1783036036

OCLC:

854974660