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Safeguard Our Flank - The Kensingtons (Paperback)
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Safeguard Our Flank - The Kensingtons (Paperback)
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Loot Price R309
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On a summer's day on the Somme in 1916, one brave battalion lost
half its men to enemy fire in an hour. What went wrong? Martha
Kearey dressed in black for the rest of her life in memory of the
four sons she lost on that day in the First World War, proudly
wearing each of their medals in turn on Sundays. Nearly a century
on, her grandson Terence has set out to do justice to the memory of
his uncles and their colleagues with a full account of the role of
their Battalion, the Kensingtons, on the Somme in the summer of
1916. The Kensingtons, guardians of the right flank on the
battlefront at Gommecourt, were ordered to march on the enemy
without proper preparation in a move later condemned as foolhardy
and suicidal. That summer's day, cut to pieces by enemy artillery,
they lost half their men in less than an hour. Kearey sets out a
candid account of the action, examining why this tragic and
unnecessary slaughter was allowed to happen.
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