This is an exceptionally detailed and intimate Battalion History of
the 18th (Service) Battalion of the Notrhumberland Fusiliers - a
unit rapidly raised in the Newcastle area on the outbreak of the
Great War in 1914. The battlion spent the remainder of the year and
1915 in training in their home area, but like many other units of
Kitchener's New Armies, found themselves at the beginning of 1916
in France preparing for the Somme offensive. The Battalion was used
both in a Pioneer role - supplying and maintaining the trench lines
- and in a purely combatant role, and was in almost continuous
action for the remainder of the war. The Battalion fought at La
Boiselle on the Somme and at Arras in April 1917. For the rest of
the war it was in the infamous Ypres salient, where it was in the
thick of the fighting in March and April 1918 during the German
spring offensives. The author of this book, Lt.-Col. John
Shakespear, was instrumental in raising the Battalion and commanded
it throughout its service on the western front. The volume includes
the Battalion's Embarkation Roll from January 1916; its Roll of
Honour; honours and awards and appendices - including one on a
Prisoner of War's experiences. Illustrated with photographs and
maps.
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