Newcastle Battalions

In Action on the Somme

Neil Storey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

76 Seiten

2016
Tyne Bridge Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85795-159-2 (ISBN)

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Based on newspaper accounts, war diaries, letters home and access to both public and private collections of local military photographs and memorabilia this book is a tribute to the lads of Newcastle and Northumberland who answered their country's call and went through the hell that was The Battle of the Somme.

Newcastle raised more battalions of volunteer soldiers that went on to see active service than any other British provincial city during the First World War. The first full battalion of Kitchener's Army, Pioneer battalions, the Tyneside Scottish and the Tyneside Irish Brigades and pre-war Territorial Battalions of The Northumberland Fusiliers were all raised here and all of them served at some point during the Battles on the Somme between 1 July and December 1916. On the First Day of the Somme their stalwart bravery and conduct on the field were remarked upon by all who witnessed it; be they the gallant pipers that led the companies over the top or the parade-like lines of the Tyneside Irish as they strode towards the hail of machine gun fire. The losses suffered by these brave battalions were also the worst suffered by any Regiment on that fateful day. .

Neil is a social historian specialising in how the First and Second World Wars impacted on British society. He has lectured on the subject all over Britain for 20 years and has written over 30 books on a variety of social history themes including: The Tommy's Handbook (History Press 2014), Animals in the First World War (Shire 2014) and Women in the First World War (2010) and has featured in a number of TV and radio documentaries as guest expert, most recently on BBC Who Do You Think You Are? with Mary Berry.

Foreword Northumberland, Newcastle and its people in 1914 For King and Country Summer 1914 Mobilisation Kitchener's Army Recruits and Recruiting Training Kitchener's Army Tyneside Scottish Tyneside Irish The first day of the Somme Tyneside Scottish on the Somme Tyneside Irish on the Somme Forgotten battalions on the Somme Aftermath and Remembrance Select bibliography and a note on the sources

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2016
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	240 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
ISBN-10	1-85795-159-X / 185795159X
ISBN-13	978-1-85795-159-2 / 9781857951592
Zustand	Neuware