ISBN10: 184342360X, ISBN13: 9781843423607, [publisher: Naval & Military Press Ltd] Softcover 2002 N & M Press reprint. 3 vols (original pub1928 SB. 758pp in all with b/w photos and mapsPublished Price £48 This is an impressive history by the most prolific author of Great War divisional and regimental histories, a fine tribute to a regiment that contributed 49 battalions to the nation’s war effort, 26 of them served overseas, including the 2nd Battalion which was in India in August 1914 and remained there throughout the war. It is also a tribute to the author who died in 1933, before he could finish the third volume; the final few chapters were completed by Capt W. Synge of the 1st Battalion. All 23 front line battalions served on the Western Front, one of them (14th) in Salonika as well. The Roll of Honour lists 14,200 dead, six VCs were won, one of them by an officer (Capt O.A.Reid) attached to another regiment, and 58 Battle Honours were awarded. This work is set out in chronological order, each volume dealing with a specific period and ending with the Roll of Honour for that period and citations for any VC. Dates are in the margin and so is the identification of the battalion involved in the action being described. Volume 1 (xiv + 237pp with 10 photos and 8 maps) carries the story from mobilization to the end of 1915, by which time fourteen battalions had joined the Old Contemptibles of the 1st Battalion in the BEF, and one of these had gone on to ...

Naval & Military Press Ltd 2002 New edition. New edition. Paperback Very Good Very Good condition. 3 Volume Set. Facsimile reprint. (World War 1, Regimental Histories) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

ISBN10: 184342360X, ISBN13: 9781843423607, [publisher: Naval & Military Press Ltd] Softcover Very Good condition. 3 Volume Set. Facsimile reprint. (World War 1, Regimental Histories) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
[Frederick, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]