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A Kitchener Man's Bit - In the Great War with the 21st (Service) Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps (the Yeoman Rifles) (Paperback)
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A Kitchener Man's Bit - In the Great War with the 21st (Service) Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps (the Yeoman Rifles) (Paperback)
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Long out of print, this new edition memoir by an intelligent and
articulate "other rank", provides fascinating insights into the
Great War infantryman's experience. In autumn 1915, twenty-year-old
Gerald Dennis enlisted in Kitchener's Army. Assigned to the 21st
(Service) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, affectionately
known as the "Yeoman Rifles", he experienced fierce fighting on the
Somme 1916, during Messines Ridge and Third Ypres in 1917 before
deployment to Italy in the immediate aftermath of the Caporetto
disaster. Re-assigned to a battalion of the Cameron Highlanders in
summer 1918, Dennis took part in the advance to victory before
demobilisation in 1919. A vivid and engaging record of wartime
service and comradeship, his recollections are not those of the
archetype disenchanted ex-soldier: "Whatever impressions the
readers of this book draw, I would like to emphasise that I bear no
resentment or bitterness. As far as I could, I have drawn a true
and honest picture of my army life ... I realise that I did only
the merest little bit for my King and Country, not that we gave
either special thought. We had volunteered for them."
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