The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of
painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry
units who fought in the Great War. These units included the four
regular regiments-the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers
Welsh Regiment and Welsh Guards-as well as the Territorial
Monmouthshire Regiment, the Yeomanry regiments: the Denbighshire
Hussars, Pembroke Yeomanry, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, Glamorgan
Yeomanry and Welsh Horse Yeomanry and their amalgamation into
service battalions for the regular regiments during 1917. Welsh
troops fought with great courage in every theatre of the war-the
Western Front, Aden, China, Gallipoli, Egypt, India, Italy,
Salonika and in Palestine-and as well as the casualties who were
suffered during these campaigns, many men gained recognition for
acts of gallantry. The three volumes, split chronologically, cover
all of the major actions and incidents in which each of the Welsh
infantry regiments took part, as well as stories of Welsh airmen,
Welshmen shot at dawn, Welsh rugby players who fell, Welsh
gallantry winners and the Welshmen who died in non-Welsh units,
such as the Dominion forces and other units of the British armed
forces. While chronicling a history of the war through the events
and battles that Welshmen took part in, the stories of many
individual casualties are included throughout, together with many
compelling photographs of the men and their last resting places.
Volume III-'Through Mud To Victory'-'Third Ypres And The 1918
Offensives'-records the stories of the Welsh troops involved in the
Third Battle of Ypres, from the Welsh battalions of the 19th
(Western) Division at Messines Ridge, through the storming of the
Pilckem Ridge by the 38th (Welsh) Division and the Guards Division;
and the Welsh troops who fought in the final offensives at
Passchendaele Ridge. The actions of Welsh troops during the Battle
of Cambrai carry through to the final winter of the war and the
volume records the sufferings of Welsh troops fighting during the
desperate German 'Kaiserschlacht', offensives of the spring of
1918; and carries through the summer of 1918, when the 38th (Welsh)
Division moved back to the Somme, to the actions of Welsh troops
during the 100 Days Offensive which finally ended the war. The
volume also covers the stories of the final battles in Italy,
Salonika and Palestine, which saw Welsh troops play a large part.
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