(Book titles are subject to change)
Jeffrey Amherst
The Australian Airforce 1914-18
Redvers Buller's African Campaigns
The Liverpol Rifles in the Great War
John Wesley Hardin
Never Surpassed-The 52nd Regiment of Foot
The British Navy in Battle
Zulu and Sudan
Lady Hobo
The Crusades
Gillett, Texas Ranger
The Viking Wars
London Men in Palestine
The RFC in the Great War
The French & Indian Wars
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
Bunbury of Maida
The Lady of Latham
Supernatural SAKI
and many others
Author(s):
John W. Arthur & Ion S. Munro
Date Published:
2010/10
Page Count:
172
Softcover ISBN-13:
978-0-85706-305-2
Hardcover ISBN-13:
978-0-85706-306-9
Glasgow men on the Western Front
As every student of the Great War is aware, the escalating scale of the conflict on the Western Front required the formation of new battalions—a new citizen army formed to be equal to the size of the challenge. This is the unit history of one of them, The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce) Battalion. As its name suggests it was but one of many additional battalions raised in Scotland which would bear the name of an old regiment of the British Army in this case the 71st Foot, the HLI. Many of these battalions, particularly those raised in large urban centres, took on the character of their place and community of origin. This battalion’s sister unit, the Sixteenth, for example was styled, ‘The Glasgow Boy’s Brigade’ Battalion. The Glasgow men were dispatched to France and into the trenches with all its hardships, grinding routine and frequent raiding. The battalion served through the Battle of the Somme and went on the see action around Hulluch, Beaumont-Hamel and the Ypres Salient among others. This invaluable book also contains honours and award rolls making it invaluable for genealogists. Available in softcover and hard over with dust jacket.