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British Army First Hand Accounts

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Dunsterville & Dunsterforce - The British Military Mission to the Caucasus During the First World War
L. C. Dunsterville
Dunsterforce and its campaign across the Caucasus Most readers know that the principal adolescent who appeared in Rudyard Kipling's tale,'Stalky and Co', was based on an actual person, Lionel Dunst..
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A Plumer & Messines: Accounts of the General and the Battle, 1917 together with The Third Battle of Ypres & a small biography of General Plumer
Sir Charles Harington, John Buchan & Francis Dodd
Messines, 1917 as witnessed by a British staff officer The principal author of this book, Charles Harington wrote two books of note. One was an autobiography of his long and distinguished military ..
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With the London Regiment in the Middle East, 1917: Accounts of the 60th Division During the Palestine Campaign in the First World War----London Men in Palestine by Rowlands Coldicott & The Taking of Jerusalem by Edmund Dane
Rowlands Coldicott & Edmund Dane
A personal account and description of the campaign to take Jerusalem This first- hand account by an officer of the London Regiment recounts the war the infantry of the 60th Division knew during the..
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Tales of a Gaspipe Officer: With the Cyclists on the Western Front During the First World War
“Despatch Rider” (W H L Watson)
The two wheeled infantrymen of the British Army Those interested in the First World War on the Western Front and the adventures of the motorcycle despatch riders of the British Army may be familiar..
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A Subaltern in Serbia: With the Tenth (Irish) Division in the Balkans During the First World War
A. Donovan Young
The First World War in the Balkans In late 1915, an Anglo-French military expedition was dispatched to the Balkans to assist the outnumbered Serbian Army's efforts as it struggled against superior ..
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With the Cavalry in the West: the Experiences of a British Hussar Officer During the First World War
Aquila
The war the British mounted soldiers knew on the Western Front This is an anonymously written recollection of a British cavalry officer (possibly of the 4th Hussars) from the first year of the Grea..
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The Diary of a Flying Soldier During the First World War on the Western Front, 1914-18
Anonymous
Rifleman, Highland regiment officer and RFC pilot—one man’s incredible war This book’s original title, ‘A Soldier’s Diary of the Great War’, did nothing—despite being an excellent account—to give p..
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A Soldier’s Diary: a Royal Engineer During the First World War on the Western Front at Ypres, 1918
Ralph Scott
A brilliant account of life and death in the trenches All military memoirs are valuable because they offer an authentic view of the events they describe. Some works transcend simple records to beco..
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A Galloper at Ypres: the Personal experiences of a British Army Aide-de-Camp at the First and Second Battles of Ypres during the First World War
Patrick Butler
The opening battles of the Great War by an eyewitness of the ‘Royal Irish’ All first-hand accounts have merit for the military historian since they can provide insights into campaigns, battles and ..
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Mesopotamia 1914-15: Extracts from a Regimental Officer’s Diary—With the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the First World War
H. Birch Reynardson
A superb account of the Great War in the Middle East Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) was the scene of much bitter fighting during the First World War between the forces of the Ottoman Turkish Empire ..
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Upon the Somme, 1916: Two Personal Experiences of British Soldiers in the Battle of the Somme During the First World War
Mark Severn & Valentine Williams
A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916 by Mark Severn & The Adventures of an Ensign by Valentine Williams
The experiences of two young men in a momentous conflict The Battle of the Somme, fought in 1916 on the Western Front, became emblematic of the futility of the First World War. This grand attack wa..
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The Lancashire Lads at War
F. A. Bolwell
A Personal Recollection and Unit History of Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Battalions on the Western Front During the First World War—With a Reservist in France by F. A. Bolwell & The War History of the 1st/4th Battalion the Loyal North Lancashire Re
The men of the ‘Red Rose’ county during the Great War This unique ‘two-in-one’ edition concerns the First World War activities of The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, a renowned British army county..
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The Green & the Red
Bryan Cooper, A. P. I. Samuels & D. G. Samuels
Irish Divisions During the First World War—The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli by Bryan Cooper & With the Ulster Division in France by A. P. I. Samuels & D. G. Samuels
The Shamrock and the Red Hand at War Divisions of faith, invasions and occupations over centuries, mean that Britain has long had an uneasy relationship with Ireland. The burdens of this have falle..
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The Legion of Marching Madmen
W. J. Blackledge
Experiences of a British Soldier on Campaign in Mesopotamia During the First World War
Impressions of the war along the Tigris The author of this book was well known under several pseudonyms for the writing of military accounts, either based on his own experiences or those of an Aust..
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Fighting the Good Fight
Douglas P. Winnifrith & Montague Thomas Hainsselin
Two Accounts of Chaplains During the First World War—The Church in the Fighting Line by Douglas P. Winnifrith & In the Northern Mists by Montague Thomas Hainsselin
The Cross and the Sword No one who has served in the military has ever underestimated the value of the important work undertaken by chaplains—those men of the church who donned uniforms and joined ..
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