A Sergeant-major's War: From Hill 60 to the SommeCrowood, 1987 - 157 sider "Sergeant-Major Ernest Shephard took part in the 2nd battle of Ypres and the Somme battle of July 1916, and was commissioned 2nd Lt. in November 1916. A first-class soldier with a strong regimental pride, to read Shephard's diaries is to gain an insight into how the British Army managed to sustain its morale throughout the horror of the Western Front. He provides a fascinating account of the daily routines of trench warfare, as well as chillingly evocative descriptions of set-piece battles from one who was very much at the sharp end of the Great War"--Page 4 of cover |
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Another Bitter Day | 31 |
The Big Push | 103 |
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5th Division aeroplanes afternoon Army arrived artillery attack Authuille Baizieux Bassée Beaucourt-sur-Ancre Béthune billets Bn HQ bombardment bombs Boyau Brigade busy Captain Algeo casualties cold command communicating trench Company Corps Coy HQ craters Cuinchy Dorset Regiment dug-outs enemy lines Enemy shelled enemy trenches Ernest Fairly quiet fighting firing line Fricourt Friday Fritz front line German going Hansa Line heavily shelled heavy fire Hill 60 hold Infantry inspection killed La Bassée La Boisselle last night later line trenches Lyme Regis machine gun Manchesters marched morning moved NCOs Neuve Chapelle officers orders parade party platoon Post Pozières rain Redoubt Regiment Regt reinforcements relieved reserve rifle grenades road round Saturday sector Senlis sent shrapnel snipers Somme started stood to arms Sunday Thiepval thro tonight trench duty trench mortars troops Tuesday village Wednesday whiz-bangs wood wounded yards Ypres
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British Generalship on the Western Front 1914-1918: Defeat into Victory Simon Robbins Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2004 |