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Battalions at War - The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War (Hardcover)
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Battalions at War - The York & Lancaster Regiment in the First World War (Hardcover)
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The First World War is history; the last survivors of that conflict
are now all dead. Three generations on, public perceptions of the
war are formed from books, films and photographs. In the last two
decades, revisionist historians have attempted to correct the
narrative left to us by the war poets and early diarists; a
chronicle of sacrifice, futility and the 'loss of a generation' at
the hands of the 'bunglers' and 'butchers'. In spite of the efforts
of these writers, commentators find it hard to move beyond the
losses of 1 July 1916 and the mud of Passchendaele. The history of
the war is 'bookmarked' by a series of iconic battles, from First
Ypres, through the Somme, to Passchendaele and Cambrai and the
final victory of the Hundred Days. When reading the accounts of the
battles it is easy to overlook the very limited perspective of the
individual soldiers. Battalions were moved in and out of the line
every few days; most were involved in only a few of the battles,
and then for only a short period and on a limited front. The troops
who participated would have had little idea of how their unit's
contribution affected the outcome of a particular operation. The
York and Lancaster Regiment had one or more battalion in all of the
major battles of the war, but each saw only a small part of those
operations. This book uses the war diaries of those battalions to
trace the history of the conflict through the limited perspective
of those whose horizon was little more than their 500 yards of
trench line. Private Patrick Dillon (the author's grandfather)
served in three battalions of the regiment. The battalion war
diaries show us how limited was the overview of the ordinary
soldier and his regimental officers, there is little context to the
actions in which they were involved beyond their immediate front
and flanks. While this book does outline the broader operations in
which the battalions were involved, it is not a 'history of the
war', rather it is an account of how those units (often at short
notice) were fed into the line of battle.
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