02711nam 2200577 450 991045827020332120200520144314.01-4738-1682-31-78383-750-0(CKB)2550000001314435(EBL)1657720(OCoLC)881162734(SSID)ssj0001183217(PQKBManifestationID)11714350(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001183217(PQKBWorkID)11185172(PQKB)10407731(MiAaPQ)EBC1657720(Au-PeEL)EBL1657720(CaPaEBR)ebr10884671(CaONFJC)MIL617583(EXLCZ)99255000000131443520140703h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOf those we loved a great war narrative remembered and illustrated /I L "Dick" ReadSouth Yorkshire, England :Pen & Sword Military,2013.©20131 online resource (542 p.)Includes index.1-78159-101-6 1-306-86332-5 Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 For What Purpose?; 2 Wulverghem; 3 French Trenches; 4 Autumn Manoeuvres, 1915; 5 Down The Line; 6 Winter, 1915; 7 Overture; 8 The Somme; 9 Bazentin; 10 Arras; 11 Gueudcourt; 12 Vermelles; 13 Cold Interlude; 14 The Hindenburg Line; 15 Unexpected News; 16 England, 1917; 17 Lichfield-Newhaven-Cherbourg; 18 The Overland Route; 19 Egypt; 20 The Xth Army (Mangin); 21 Flanders Again; 22 The Final Advance; 23 Armistice; AppendicesThe Author was among the first to respond to Kitchener's call for volunteers in 1914. He joined 8th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment at the outbreak of war as a Private and, within weeks, he and the Battalion were heading for Northern France with the British Expeditionary Force.In this superb memoir we see how the spirit of adventurous patriotism that carried him to war gradually turns to sober reflection as the fighting intensifies and he loses so many friends and comrades at the Battles of the Somme and the Marne.In 1917 he is commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment and makes a lonSoldiersEnglandBiographyWorld War, 1914-1918Personal narratives, BritishElectronic books.SoldiersWorld War, 1914-1918940.48141Read I. L.1895-1971,943957MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458270203321Of those we loved2130804UNINA