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Up to Mametz ... and beyond / Llewelyn Wyn Griffith ; edited and annotated by Jonathon Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffith, Llewelyn Wyn, 1890-1977, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Griffith, Llewelyn Wyn, 1890-1977.
- Griffith, Llewelyn Wyn.
- Great Britain. Army. Royal Welsh Fusiliers--Officers--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, Welsh.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916.
- Soldiers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley : Pen & Sword Military, 2010.
- Summary:
- Llewelyn Wyn Griffith's Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welch Fusiliers), its training, its apprenticeship in the trenches, through to its ordeal of Mametz Wood on the Somme as part of 38 Division. But there it stopped.General Jonathon Riley has discovered Wyn Griffith's unpublished diaries and letters which pick up where Up to Mametz left off through to the end of the War. With careful editing and annotation, the events
- Contents:
- Part 1. Up to Mametz
- Prentice Days
- Command
- Givenchy
- Mud
- Alarms and diversions
- South
- Mametz Wood
- The gleaning
- Part 2. Beyond Mametz
- Salient
- ANZAC
- Kaiserschlacht
- Armistice.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Faber & Faber, 1931.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783033423
- 1783033428
- OCLC:
- 854975005
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