CAPT E V TEMPEST West Yorkshire Regiment 1/6th Battalion WW1 history SOMME YPRES

CAPT E V TEMPEST West Yorkshire Regiment 1/6th Battalion WW1 history SOMME YPRES (image 1/1)
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Author Captain E V Tempest, D.S.O., M.C. Title History of the Sixth Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment - Volume I. - 1/6th Battalion Publisher & Printing Details Percy Lund, Humphries & Co, Bradford & London, 1921. First edition, first printing, hardback. Bound with linen spine and cloth covered boards, with gilt titling to spine and gilt titling and insignia to front board. xvi + 357pp. 25 x 18.5cm. About the Book A fascinating and detailed history of the 1/6th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War. Illustrated with portraits of the serving officers and men (the frontispiece is by Eric Kennington), photographic views of the battlefields and well-known places on the Western Front Ypres, Thiepval, Gommecourt etc), as well as twenty maps. "Compiled at the instigation of the Old Comrades Association" of the 1/6th Battalion of the West Yorkshire regiment, this is a typical no-nonsense history of a down-to-earth unit that saw active service, suffered heavy casualties, and rendered sterling service in some of the very worst fighting seen on the western front during the Great War. With a laconic foreword by General Plumer, in whose 2nd Army the 1/6th West Yorkshires served at Ypres and Passchendaele, the book gives a full account of the battalion"s service which, in addition to third Ypres, included action at Nieuport, on the read more
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