THE 2ND CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT (ROYAL FUSILIERS) IN THE GREAT WAR (1914-19)
Written by W.E. Grey
Published by The Headquarters Of The Regiment
in 1929
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- REGIMENTAL HISTORY (UK)
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- GENEALOGY
THE 2ND CITY OF LONDON REGIMENT (ROYAL FUSILIERS) IN THE GREAT WAR (1914-19)
Written by W.E. Grey.
Stock no. 1823650
1st.
1929.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Red cloth spine with gilt title, blue cloth boards with gilt vignette to front. B/w plates and maps. Top edge gilt. Red cloth spine faded and browned, gilt also faded. Blue cloth boards rubbed at corners. Text blcok and endpapers browned. A few finger marks to margins.
Front cover
Contents
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I
- Mobilization and the Railway Line
- CHAPTER II
- 1/2nd Londons in Malta - Formation of the 2/2nd Londons
- CHAPTER III
- The 1/2nd Londons in France - Armentieres and the Action of l'Epinette
- CHAPTER IV
- The 1/2nd Londons in Defence of Ypres
- i. First Impressions of the Salient
- ii. The Actions of Hooge
- iii. The Defence of the Bluff
- iv. Last DAys with the 17th Brigade
- CHAPTER V
- The 2/2nd Londons in Malta and Gallipoli
- CHAPTER VI
- The 2/2nd Londons in Southern Egypt and France - Disbandment
- CHAPTER VII
- The 3/2nd and 4/2nd Londons at Home
- CHAPTER VII
- The 3/2nd and 4/2nd Londons at Home
- CHAPTER VIII
- Formation of the 56th Division
- CHAPTER IX
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battles of the Somme, 1916-I
- The Attack on the Gommecourt Salient
- CHAPTER X
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battles of the Somme, 1916 - II
- I. Leuze Wood and the Fighting for Combles
- ii. The Battle of the Transloy Ridges
- CHAPTER XI
- The 1/2nd Londons during the Winter of 1917-17 - Neuve Chapelle and the Laventie Posts
- CHAPTER XII
- THE 2/2nd Londons in France - The German Retirement
- CHAPTER XIII
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battles of Arras, 1917
- i. the Capture of Beaurains
- ii. The First Battle of the Scarpe, 1917
- iii. The Third Battle of the Scarpe, 1917
- CHAPTER XIV
- The 2/2nd Londons in the Battles of Bullecourt, 1917
- CHAPTER XV
- The Battles of Ypres, 1917-I
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battle of Langemarck
- CHAPTER XVI
- The Battles of Ypres, 1917-II
- The 2/2nd Londons on the Northern Ridges
- CHAPTER XVII
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battle of Cambrai, 1917
- i. On the Cambrai Front, September to November 1917
- ii. The Capture of Tadpole Copse
- iii. The German Counter-Attack
- CHAPTER XVIII
- The 1/2nd Londons during the Winter of 1917-18, On the Artois Front
- CHAPTER XIX
- The 2/2nd Londons in the First Battles of the Somme, 1918
- i. Preparations for the German Offensive
- ii. The Twenty-First of March
- iii. The Retreat
- iv. The Action of Villers Bretonneux
- CHAPTER XX
- The 1/2nd Londons in the First Battle of Arras, 1918
- CHAPTER XXI
- The 1/2nd and 2/2nd Londons during the Summer Months of 1918 -
- The Reserve Battalion and the Depot
- CHAPTER XXII
- The 2/2nd Londons in the Battle of Amiens and the Second Battles of the Somme, 1918
- CHAPTER XXIII
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Second Battles of Arras, 1918
- CHAPTER XXIV
- The 2/2nd Londons in the Battle of Epehy
- CHAPTER XXV
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battle of the Canal du Nord - The Action of Aubigny au Bac
- CHAPTER XXVI
- The Final Advance - I
- The 1/2nd Londons in the Battles of Valenciennes and the Sambre
- CHAPTER XXVII
- The Final Advance - II
- The 2/2nd Londons in Pursuit to the schelde
- EPILOGUE
- ROLL OF HONOUR
- SUMMARY OF DECORATIONS AWARDED TO OFFICERS
- SUMMARY OF DECORATIONS AWAREDED TO WARRANT OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND MEN
- INDEX
- INDEX OF ARMS, FORMATIONS, UNITS, ETC.