Young Citizen Old Soldier"". From boyhood in Antrim to Hell on the Somme : The Journal of Rifleman James McRoberts, 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, January 1915-April 1917

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truesdale, David.

Contributor:

Truesdale, David, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army--Biography.

Great Britain. Army. Royal Dublin Fusiliers--Biography.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Irish.

World War, 1914-1918--Regimental histories--Antrim (County)--Northern Ireland--Personal narratives, Irish.

World War, 1914-1918.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Diaries.

Soldiers.

Great Britain. Army. Royal Irish Rifles. Battalion, 14th.

Great Britain.

McRoberts, James--Diaries.

McRoberts, James.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain. Army--Biography.

Great Britain. Army. Royal Dublin Fusiliers--Biography.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Irish.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (569 p.)

Place of Publication:

: Helion & Company, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For almost 43 years three school notebooks lay in obscurity in the County Armagh home of sixty two-year old James McRoberts. The closely filled pages recorded just over two years in his life in uniform as he played his part in what was then known as the Great War. During the Home Rule crisis of 1914, one of several in Ireland's history, James McRoberts, like many other men, joined the Young Citizen Volunteers, an organization that eventually became the 14th Royal Irish Rifles, a battalion of the 36th (Ulster) Division. These notebooks, written at the time and with footnotes added some forty ye

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Maps and Illustrations""; ""Maps""; ""Preface""; ""Publisher�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Historical background to the 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (YCV)""; ""The Diary: Training in Ulster""; ""The Diary: Training in Seaford, Sussex""; ""The Diary: France and Belgium, the trenches""; ""The Diary: England, hospital""; ""The Diary: Home and remembrance""; ""The 14th Rifles and the remainder of the War""; ""Post-war � County Surveyor""

""Appendix: Casualty list �D� Company, 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (YCV), 6 May 1916""""Bibliography""; ""eBooks Published by Helion & Company""

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781909384682

1909384682

OCLC:

855969674