The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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Side 63
... weeks more , before the muzzles of General Buller's guns finally nosed over the distant hilltops and sent comforting flashes to the besieged , now eating the Hussar's horses and with pale faces showing signs of the vigil . And it was ...
... weeks more , before the muzzles of General Buller's guns finally nosed over the distant hilltops and sent comforting flashes to the besieged , now eating the Hussar's horses and with pale faces showing signs of the vigil . And it was ...
Side 86
... weeks , recruit platoons moved out of the huts and were found billets elsewhere in Exeter . That was the immediate horizon , looked forward to already with the soldier's touch- ing faith in the advantage of change , but now particularly ...
... weeks , recruit platoons moved out of the huts and were found billets elsewhere in Exeter . That was the immediate horizon , looked forward to already with the soldier's touch- ing faith in the advantage of change , but now particularly ...
Side 97
... Weeks extended into months , high summer into late summer . Still no threat disturbed the quiet cliffs and beaches , watched over jealously by the Devonshire battalions . They were weeks of inestim- able value . Gradually their value ...
... Weeks extended into months , high summer into late summer . Still no threat disturbed the quiet cliffs and beaches , watched over jealously by the Devonshire battalions . They were weeks of inestim- able value . Gradually their value ...
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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