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From Africa to Flanders mud with the Mancunians
Predictably, the nation's second city provided many battalions of
its working men to fight in the battles of the Great War. This book
concerns one of them-the 7th. What makes this volume especially
interesting is that it contains two previously separately published
books-each by an author intimate with the 7th Manchesters-that
chart in natural progression its exploits during the Great War. In
the first book we find the 7th garrisoned in the Sudan before its
movement to the Dardanelle's to take part in the ill-fated
Gallipoli Campaign. After withdrawal it returned to Egypt where it
took part in the operations to clear Sinai of the Ottoman Turkish
Army prior to the conquest of the Holy Land. The first author,
Gerald Hurst was on hand to provide Wilson's book on the doings of
the 7th during its time serving on the Western Front with its
introduction. So this special Leonaur edition provides a seamless
account from the outbreak of war to its conclusion for a battalion
which saw constant action living up to its motto 'We never sleep.'
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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From Africa to Flanders mud with the Mancunians
Predictably, the nation's second city provided many battalions of
its working men to fight in the battles of the Great War. This book
concerns one of them-the 7th. What makes this volume especially
interesting is that it contains two previously separately published
books-each by an author intimate with the 7th Manchesters-that
chart in natural progression its exploits during the Great War. In
the first book we find the 7th garrisoned in the Sudan before its
movement to the Dardanelle's to take part in the ill-fated
Gallipoli Campaign. After withdrawal it returned to Egypt where it
took part in the operations to clear Sinai of the Ottoman Turkish
Army prior to the conquest of the Holy Land. The first author,
Gerald Hurst was on hand to provide Wilson's book on the doings of
the 7th during its time serving on the Western Front with its
introduction. So this special Leonaur edition provides a seamless
account from the outbreak of war to its conclusion for a battalion
which saw constant action living up to its motto 'We never sleep.'
This book is midway between a battalion history and a Great War
officer's memoir. The 7th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment,
first raised in 1859, served in the Sudan before being sent to join
the ultimately disastrous Gallipoli campaign. The book is therefore
an invaluable memoir of the Dardanelles fighting in 1915, with
chapters on the battles around Cape Helles; trench warfare at
Gallipoli and the peninsular's evacuation. The final chapters of
the book are concerned with the unit's 'revival' and deployment in
Egypt in the latter days of the war. This is a rare and candid
account of the Dardanelles campaign and the part played in it by a
typical Territorial Army battalion.
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