ISBN10: 1843429934, ISBN13: 9781843429937, [publisher: Naval & Military Press] Softcover
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ISBN10: 1843429934, ISBN13: 9781843429937, [publisher: NAVAL & MILITARY PR] Softcover
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ISBN10: 1843429934, ISBN13: 9781843429937, [publisher: Naval & Military Press] Softcover 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1923). SB. xvi + 610pp with 39 b/w illus + coloured plate showing divisional and brigade signs with 15 maps.(11 in colour)Published Price £28 The Lowland Division was a pre-war Territorial division which, in May 1915, was numbered 52nd with brigades 155th, 156th and 157th. In the same month the division embarked for service in Gallipoli, a move that was marked by what is still the greatest rail disaster in Britain’s history. The troop train carrying the HQ and two companies of 1/7th R Scots collided with a stationary train near Gretna, a few seconds later the London express ran full speed into the wreckage of the troop train resulting in the deaths of three officers and 207 other ranks with another five officers and 219 other ranks injured.The division landed on Gallipoli at Cape Helles in June and subsequently was in action at Gully Ravine, Achi Baba and Krithia Nullah till evacuated in January 1916, moving to Egypt. The fighting on Gallipoli is described in detail as is the evacuation, and from time to time tables of casualties are given . During the Gallipoli campaign the division lost by battle casualties at least seventy percent of its officers and over fifty percent of its other ranks. The second part of the book deals with the two and a half years the division spent in the Middle East, in Sinai and Palestine. In the ...