THE HISTORY OF THE DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY 1914-1919
Written by Everard Wyrall
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.
in 1932
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- MILITARY
- REGIMENTAL HISTORY (UK)
- CORNWALL
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ARMY
- INFANTRY
- GENEALOGY
THE HISTORY OF THE DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY 1914-1919
Written by Everard Wyrall.
Stock no. 2137730
1st.
1932.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Large format. Green cloth with gilt title to spine and vignette/crest to front cover. With a foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. With 21 illustrations and 21 maps, some folding. Some light wear to covers. Name in ink to front pastedown. A couple of plates are loosely inserted to front, as is dedication page. Foxing and browning to outer page edges. Wrapper is scuffed with marks; tears and chips; name in pencil to top of front panel; minimal loss.
Front cover
Contents
- I THE CALL TO ARMS
- II THE CONCENTRATION OF THE ARMY IN FRANCE AND THE MARCH TO MONS
- III THE BATTLE OF MONS
- IV THE RETREAT BEGINS
- V THE BATTLE OF LE CATEAU
- VI THE RETREAT RESUMED
- VII THE ADVANCE TO THE AISNE
- The Passage of the Petit Morin
- The Passage of the Marne: "The Pisseloup Ridge"
- VIII THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE, 1914
- IX THE BEGINNING OF TRENCH WARFARE
- X THE RACE TO THE COAST AND THE TRANSFER OF TEH BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FROM THE AISNE TO FLANDERS
- XI THE MOBILIZATION AND EXPANSION OF THE TERRITORIAL FORCE AND THE RAISING OF SERVICE BATTALIONS OF THE REGIMENT.
- XII THE BATTLE OF LA BASSEE
- XIII THE FIRST WINTER IN THE TRENCHES, 1914-1915
- XIV THE ACTION OF STL. ELOI
- "Hill 60"
- XV THE BATTLES OF YPRES, 1915
- The Battle of Gravesnstafel Ridge: The Gas Attack
- The Battle of St. Julien
- The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge
- XVI TRENCH WARFARE FROM 22ND APRIL TO THE MIDDLE OF JULY 1915
- XVII THE ACTIONS OF HOOGE, 1915
- XVIII THE BATTLE OF LOOS
- XIX THE SECOND WINTER IN THE TRENCHES AND PREPARATIONS FOR THE SOMME BATTLES, 1916
- The Battle of Mount Sorrel
- XX THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME, 1916
- High Wood
- The Batle of Delville Wood
- The Battle of Guillemont
- The Battle of Flers-Courcelette
- The Battle of Le Transloy
- The Battle of the Ancrew, 1916
- XXI THE THIRD WINTER IN THE TRENCHES, 1916-1917
- I. 1916
- XXII. SALONIKA I. 1915-1916
- Jenimah
- Action of the Karajokois: Including the Capture of Yenikoi
- Osman Kamila
- The First Action at Tumbitza
- The Secon Action at Tumbitza
- XXIII ADEN
- XXIV. THE THIRD WINTER IN THE TRENCHES, 1916-1917
- II. 1917
- XXV. THE GERMAN RETREAT TO THE HINDENBURG LINE
- XXVI THE BATTLE OF ARRAS, 1917
- The Battle of Vimy, 1917 and the First Battle of the Scarpe, 1917
- The Second Battle of the Scarpe 1917 with Subsidiary Attack on La Coulotte
- The Battle of Arleux
- The Third Battle of the Scarpe, 1917
- XXVII THE BATTLES OF YPRES, 1917
- The Battle of Langemarck, 1917
- The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
- The Battle of Polygon Wood
- The Battle of Broodseinde
- The Battle of Poelcapelle
- The First Battle of Passchendaele
- The Second Battle of PAsschendaele
- XVIII THE WAY OF THE PIONEERS
- XXIX THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI, 1917
- The Tank Attack
- The German Counter-Attack
- XXX THE LAST WINTER IN THE TRENCHES IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS
- I. To the end of 1917
- XXXI SALONIKA: II. 1917
- XXXII PALESTINE: I
- The Third Battle of Gaza
- The Action of El Mughar
- The Battle of Nebi Samwil
- The Capture of Jerusalem and Defence of the City
- XXXIII THE LAST WINTER IN THE TRENCHES IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS
- II. 1st January - 20th March, 1918
- XXXIV ITALY
- XXXV THE GERMAN OFFENSIVES, 1918
- I. In Picardy
- The Battle of St Quentin
- The Fight for the Somme Crossings
- The First Battle of Bapaume, 1918
- The Battle of Rosieres
- XXXVI THE GERMAN OFFENSIVES, 1918
- II. In Flanders
- The Battle of Estaires
- The Battle of Hazebrouck
- XXXVII THE PERIOD OF ACTIVE DEFENCE
- The Action of La Becque
- XXXVIII THE ADVANCE TO VICTORY
- I. In Picardy
- The Second Battles of the Somme, 1918
- The Battle of Albert, 1918
- The Second Battle of Bapaume, 1918
- XXXIX THE ADVANCE TO VICTORY
- II. In Flanders
- XL THE BATTLES OF THEHINDENBURG LINE AND PURSUIT TO THE SELLE
- The Battle of Havrincourt
- The Battle of the Canal du Nord
- The Battle of Cambrai, 1918
- XLI IN FLANDERS AND ARTOIS
- XLII THE FINAL ADVANCE IN PICARDY, 1918
- The Battle of the Selle
- The Battle of Valenciennes
- The Battle of the Sambre
- XLIII SALONIKA: III. 1918
- The Battle of Doiran, 1918
- XLIV PALESTINE: II
- Actions of Tel Asur
- The Battle sof Megiddo
- The Battle of Sharon
- CONCLUSION