(Book titles are subject to change)
Algernon Blackwood's Shorter Supernatural Fiction (2 vols.)
Terrys Texas Rangers
The Last Crusaders
The Defeat of the U-Boats
Sup Richard Middleton
The Battle of Austerlitz
The Campaigns of Alexander
Sabre and Foil Fighting
The Fourth Leonaur Book of Ghost and Horror Stories
The Irish Legion
General Von Zieten
Armoured Cars and Aircraft
The Chinese Regiment
Texas Cavalry and the Laurel Brigade
The First Crusaders
The Lionheart and the Third Crusade
The Winnebagos
Roger Lamb and the American War of Independence
Gronow of the Guards
Plumer of Messines
... and more
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.