Название: Cambridgeshire Kitcheners: A History of 11th (Service) Battalion (Cambs) Suffolk Regiment
Автор: Joanna Costin
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473869005
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 328
Размер: 57,3 МБ
Язык: Английский
In the opening months of the First World War, 1,500 men from Cambridgeshire came forward to serve their country as a battalion in Kitchener's New Army. They came from the city and they came from the fields. Many had never left the county before, let alone their country, and all too many would never return.
Whether farm laborers, shop assistants, bricklayers, chauffeurs, university scholars or college porters, men from all walks of life united and became the Cambridgeshire Kitcheners. Sent to the Western Front in January 1916, they took part in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Battle of the Somme.