The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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Side 34
... held the brass - studded target to cover the body and , thus arrayed , dashed forward to within fifty yards of the English . The next manoeuvre was to discharge the long - barrelled Spanish gun , drop it , and aim the steel pistol ...
... held the brass - studded target to cover the body and , thus arrayed , dashed forward to within fifty yards of the English . The next manoeuvre was to discharge the long - barrelled Spanish gun , drop it , and aim the steel pistol ...
Side 67
... HELD ' 67 only too easy to imagine . Definite news was completely lacking , even for the Colonel . In distance , Brigade Headquarters was pitched close by . For all the use that was , brigade might have been a hun- dred miles away , or ...
... HELD ' 67 only too easy to imagine . Definite news was completely lacking , even for the Colonel . In distance , Brigade Headquarters was pitched close by . For all the use that was , brigade might have been a hun- dred miles away , or ...
Side 130
... held the stumbling block of Longstop . If the attack was held up there , and the corner of the box broken , the plain opened up and stretched before 9 Corps straight to Tunis . Apart from the Eighth Army , 9 Corps were the furthest ...
... held the stumbling block of Longstop . If the attack was held up there , and the corner of the box broken , the plain opened up and stretched before 9 Corps straight to Tunis . Apart from the Eighth Army , 9 Corps were the furthest ...
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12th Devons 1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 2nd Devons action advance Agira Airborne ammunition anti-tank guns Armoured army arrived artillery assault attack Barracks battery battle bayonet beach Blerick bombs bridge bridgehead Brigade British Bulford Burma camp Captain capture casualties Chagford Chindwin Colonel column command Company Corps Crete D-Day defence Devons Devonshire Regiment Division Dorsets east enemy fighting fire flank force forward fought French front garrison German Gibraltar glider grenades Hamminkeln hill Horsa Houyet Imphal infantry invasion island Japanese Japs jungle killed L/Cpl landing Lieut Lieutenant Lt-Col Lt-Colonel machine-gun Major Malta Mandalay March miles Monywa morning mortar move night Normandy officers operation Operation Blackcock party patrol platoon position Private Rhine ridge rifle river road rôle round route Sergeant shells Sicily soldiers Tamu Tamu road tanks town tracks Tree Hill troops Ukhrul village wounded yards