Swansea Pals
The Swansea Battalion was formed from local men by the Mayor of Swansea in the response to Lord Kitcheners famous appeal for volunteers. This, the first full history of the Battalion, covers early recruiting for the battalion in the Swansea area and its subsequent training in Swansea, Rhyl and Winchester, prior to departure, some 1,200 strong, in December 1915 for the Western Front. As part of the 38th Welsh Division it participated in the attack on Mametz Wood on the Somme where, in a single day, it suffered almost 100 men killed and 300 wounded out of an attacking contingent of less than 700. A further very successful raid on the German hel…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78303-702-5
- EAN: 9781783037025
- Produktnummer: 22581352
- Verlag: Pen and Sword
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 20'699 KB
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Bernard Lewis specializes in True Crime.
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