A Marine At Gallipoli On The Western Front

Author : Harry Askin
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473844803

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A Marine at Gallipoli on the Western Front by Harry Askin Pdf

Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the Royal Marines at Portsmouth.He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in late February 1915. On 25 April he was towed ashore to Gallipoli. So began a nine month ordeal of constant fighting and shelling on that bare and desperate Peninsula.In this diary he captures the atmosphere of danger and death, blazing heat in summer and rain and cold at other times. The smell of dead bodies was everywhere and while the fortitude of the troops was astonishing, at times confusion and panic prevailed. Harry was wounded twice in one day but the surgeon removed the bullet and he returned to the firing line.Harry was among the last to withdraw and his reward was to be sent to the Western Front. Again he was wounded. This is a stirring memoir which paints a vivid picture of the horrors of war.

Author : Peter Andreas Pedersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 0670041246

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The Anzacs by Peter Andreas Pedersen Pdf

1918 on the Western Front. At no other time has Australia so influenced the course of world history. In the worst crisis of World War I the Germans had a cut a wide swathe through the British line. The Australians knew their hour had come. 'Fini retreat', they boldly announced as they marched to a halt the Germans at Amiens. Then it was their turn to advance, driving the enemy remorselessly before them, as the shock troops of the British Army. This important book traces the evolution of the Australian Imperial Force from the enthusiastic amateurs of Gallipoli to the skilled warriors of the Western Front, where fighting in conditions of unspeakable horror and brutality they won their legendary reputation as 'the best infantrymen of the war and perhaps of all time'. By war's end the Australian Corps - a mere 9 per cent of the total British force - accounted for 22 per cent of total captures- a massive, and disproportionate, contribution to victory. Combining detailed battle narratives with soldiers' accounts, Peter Pedersen moves from Gallipoli through Palestine to the Western Front, graphically re-creating the campaigns of a war in which over 200 000 Australians - two out of every three combatants - were killed or wounded. Including the New Zealanders at every stage, he also covers the war in the air and at sea, in dressing posts and hospitals, and on a home front devastated by casualty rates and riven over conscription. Illustrated with over 300 photographs and artworks, this epic work recalls to memory the forgotten heroes, and the bloody campaigns, of a war that brought glory to the Australian nation but tragedy to every Australian family.

Author : Stephen Snelling
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752487526

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VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli by Stephen Snelling Pdf

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign which Churchill hoped would knock Turkey out of the war. For a campaign that promised so much, it ultimately became a tragedy of lost opportunities. By January 1916, when the last men were taken off the peninsula, the casualties totalled 205,000. This book tells the stories of the 39 men whose bravery on the battlefield was rewarded by the Victoria Cross, among them the war's first Australian VC, first New Zealand VC, and first Royal Marine VC. It represents the highest number of VCs won in a theatre of war, other than the Western Front.

Author : Joseph Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015011828244

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Call to Arms by Joseph Murray Pdf

Author : Charles Frederic Jerram
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476624068

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A Soldier Gone to Sea by Charles Frederic Jerram Pdf

In this memoir spanning nine decades, Lieutenant Colonel C.F. Jerram (1882-1969) of the Royal Marines recounts his life and military service through both world wars. Jerram describes in candid detail his late 19th-century childhood in Devon and Cornwall, the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, the Royal Navy's Far East Station, a traditional Corps of Marines, the Gallipoli Campaign, the World War I Western Front and the interwar and World War II years. His experience and insight convey two fundamental lessons: "Know thy profession and look after those for whom you are responsible." An essay by the editor, based on other sources, provides a broader perspective on Jerram, whose approach to professional military service is still pertinent today.

Author : Douglas Jerrold
Publisher : Leonaur Limited
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782824146

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The Hawke Battalion of the Royal Naval Division-During the First World War at Gallipoli and on the Western Front by Douglas Jerrold Pdf

The Great War campaigns of one of the Royal Naval division battalions The campaigns of the Royal Naval Brigades have always fascinated students of military history. During several notable campaigns of the Victorian era including the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the Zulu War and the Boer War these 'sailors without ships' left their natural element (invariably dragging and pulling their guns with them) to do battle alongside their comrades of the British Army. The story of the naval brigades of the First World War was somewhat different for here were units, named for the great admirals of the age of sail, which had been specifically created to act and fight as infantry whilst maintaining the traditions of the 'senior service'. The requirements of this great conflict meant that the initial role of the naval brigades to defend port areas very quickly gave way to the pragmatic need for fighting battalions in the field. After the debacle at Antwerp, the Hawke Battalion was re-formed and took part in the ultimately disastrous Gallipoli Campaign before being transferred to the Western Front where it played its part in the Battle of the Somme. This is a riveting account that benefits from the authenticity of first-hand experience written by an officer who served with the Hawke Battalion. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket; our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands.

Author : Ashley Ekins
Publisher : Exisle Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775590514

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Gallipoli by Ashley Ekins Pdf

In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of assaults in an all-out attempt to break the deadlock and achieve a decisive victory. The ‘August offensive’ resulted in heartbreaking failure and costly losses on both sides. Many of the sites of the bloody struggle became famous names: Lone Pine, the Nek, Chunuk Bair, Hill 60, Suvla Bay. Debate has continued to the present day over the strategy and planning, the real or illusory opportunities for success, and the causes of failure in what became the last throw of the dice for the Allies. Some argue that these costly attacks were a lost opportunity; others maintain that the outcomes were simply inevitable.This new book about the Gallipoli battles arises out of a major international conference at the Australian War Memorial in 2010 to mark the 95th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign. The conference drew leading military historians from around the world to bring multi-national viewpoints to the many intriguing questions still debated about Gallipoli. Keynote speaker, Professor Robin Prior of the University of Adelaide, author of Gallipoli: the end of the myth (2009), led a range of international authorities from Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, Germany, India and Turkey to present their most recent research findings. The result was significant: never before had such a range of views been presented, with fresh German and Turkish perspectives offered alongside those of British and Australasian historians. For the resulting book, the papers have been edited and the text has been augmented with soldiers’ letters and diary accounts, as well as a large number of photographs and maps.

Author : John A. Brough
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 184624742X

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A Marine in the Great War by John A. Brough Pdf

"This book brings to life a terrible and momentous time in British history. It begins on the eve of the First World War, in 1914. These days are seen through the eyes of John Brough, a farm worker and the author's father, whose diaries chronicle pre-war rural life. This was the era of manual labour and ploughing with horses, long days of hard toil, yet the diaries reflect John Brough's joy in the countryside around him. With band practice and chapel-going in his spare time, it was a secure, familiar way of life. Yet, after the Great War, rural life would never be the same again. Indeed, John Brough never returned to the family farm. As war was declared, John Brough was plunged into the horrors of trench warfare. The book tells of the disaster of Gallipoli and the carnage of the Western Front, chronicled by a number of different voices. Then John Brough's diaries resume, taking us through the daily life of a prisoner of war, enduring starvation rations and hard labour down a coal mine, and facing sickness, the death of companions and theft by desperate co-prisoners of his meagre food rations. Yet he still finds pleasure in an unexpected food parcel, a fine day, and a friendly gesture from a comrade in arms."www.amazon.com.

Author : Jon Finnie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1366779029

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Alexander Finnie Gallipoli to the Western Front by Jon Finnie Pdf

This book is the culmination of years of research on the net and at the AWM and constant searching for new information. Putting all the information together in order in one book rather than on all the scraps of paper in folders in my office. It all started with a dusty photo of Alex, found at the back of a shed, followed by looking up his obituary in the paper that said he was at the Gallipoli landing. All the hard work has now been done and ready to be read. Enjoy.

Author : Tonie Holt,Valmai Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1781593973

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Major & Mrs. Holt's Battlefield Guide to the Western Front, North by Tonie Holt,Valmai Holt Pdf

The Seventh ship to bear the name, the Assault Ship and Commando Carrier HMS Fearless was first commissioned in 1965. Over the next 37 years she was seldom far from the actions in which British forces were engaged worldwide, be they in Aden, Malaysia and Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Cold War (Norway), South Rhodesia, Falklands, the Gulf, Afghanistan and so on. Thousands of sailors, Royal Marines and soldiers served on board over her 19 commissions. Now paid off, Fearless has a great story to tell and the Author, a former senior Royal Marine who knows her well, is superbly qualified to tell it.

Author : Dr Paul Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780750968713

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Maritime Portsmouth by Dr Paul Brown Pdf

For three centuries Portsmouth has been the leading base of the Royal Navy but the naval heritage of its port can be traced back to the Roman invasion of Britain. From the Roman walls of Portchester to the best-preserved Georgian dockyard in the world and the illustrious HMS Victory, Portsmouth is amongst the most important naval sites in the world. This fascinating book, in its new and fully revised edition, focuses on the history and present status of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as well as the magnificent ships Victory, Warrior and Mary Rose that have been preserved and are now on display at Portsmouth. Drawing on impressive original research and illustrated by a host of colourful photographs, author Paul Brown has created a concise and helpful guide to the key maritime attractions in Portsmouth and Gosport, including the Submarine Museum, the sea forts, the Gunwharf and the commercial port.

Author : Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198870159

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Writing a War of Words by Lynda Mugglestone Pdf

Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit' on the Home Front. Lynda's Mugglestone's fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventional accounts of language history during this period, recuperates Clark himself as another 'forgotten lexicographer', challenges the received wisdom on the inexpressibilities of war, and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.

Author : Richard Brooks,Matthew Little
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781844158690

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Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors by Richard Brooks,Matthew Little Pdf

Whether you are interested in the career of an individual Royal Marine or just want to know more about the part played by the Marines in a particular battle or campaign, this book will point you in the right direction. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of the Royal Marines, their history or organization, Richard Brooks and Matthew Little explain which records survive, where they can be found and how they can help you in your research. They also describe in vivid detail the evolution of the Royal Marines, from the tentative beginnings of the service in the seventeenth century to their present position as a key part of the British armed forces.

Author : James C. Bradford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1538 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135950347

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International Encyclopedia of Military History by James C. Bradford Pdf

With its impressive breadth of coverage – both geographically and chronologically – the International Encyclopedia of Military History is the most up-to-date and inclusive A-Z resource on military history. From uniforms and military insignia worn by combatants to the brilliant military leaders and tacticians who commanded them, the campaigns and wars to the weapons and equipment used in them, this international and multi-cultural two-volume set is an accessible resource combining the latest scholarship in the field with a world perspective on military history.

Author : Reginald H. W. Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000076444227

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Military Badges of the British Empire 1914-18 by Reginald H. W. Cox Pdf