History Of The 22nd Service Battalion Royal Fusiliers Kensington

Author : Christopher Stone
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ISBN 13 : 9781843421061
Total Pages : 80 pages
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Download or read book History of the 22nd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) written by Christopher Stone and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battalion was raised by the Mayor and Borough of Kensington as a Service (Kitchener) battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (RF) on 11 Sep 1914 at the White City. In June 1915 it became part of 99th Brigade 33rd Division, along with 17th, 23rd and 24th Battalions RF. The battalion went to France in November 1915 with 33rd Division, but almost immediately on arrival the brigade was transferred to the 2nd Division, a regular division, where the battaion remained till it was disbanded in Feb 1918 when the BEF reduced the number of brigades in a battalion from four to three.The editor stresses this book was compiled for the surviving members of the battalion, some 410 died, a VC was won by L/Sgt F.W Palmer (also MM) near Courcelette in Feb 1917. There is a Roll of Honour in which the dates of death of the officers is given, but in the case of other ranks, they are grouped by companies for each year of the war without number, rank or date of death. There is also a list of recipients of honours and awards, headed by Palmer with his VC. In this list, which includes mentioned in despatches, names are grouped alphabetically for each medal, but no number, rank or date of award.

Author : Christopher Stone
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Total Pages : 79 pages
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Download or read book A History of the 22nd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) written by Christopher Stone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Fusiliers. Battalion, 22nd
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Total Pages : 79 pages
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Download or read book A History of the 22nd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington). Edited by Christopher Stone written by Great Britain. Army. Royal Fusiliers. Battalion, 22nd and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 79 pages
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Download or read book A History of the 22nd (service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. D. Sheffield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book The Effect of War Service on the 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington) 1914-18, with Special Reference to Morale, Discipline, and the Officer/man Relationship written by G. D. Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. I. S. Inglis
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178346108X
Total Pages : 591 pages
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Download or read book The Kensington Battalion written by G. I. S. Inglis and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by the Mayor of Kensington, the 22nd Royal Fusiliers (the Kensington Battalion) were a strange mixture of social classes (bankers and stevedores, writers and laborers) with a strong sprinkling of irreverent colonials thrown in. Such a disparate group needed a strong leader and, luckily, in Randle Barratt Barker, they found one, first as their trainer and then as the Commanding Officer.As this superb book reveals The Kensington Battalion had a unique spirit and given their ordeals they needed this. They suffered severely in the battles of 1917 and, starved of reinforcements, were disbanded in 1918. Yet thanks to a strong Old Comrades Association, a special magazine Mufti, welfare work and reunions the Battalions close spirit lived on.The author has successfully drawn on a wealth of first hand material (diaries, letters and official documents) as well as interviews from the 1980s to produce a fitting and atmospheric record of service and sacrifice.

Author : Ray Westlake Military Books
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ISBN 13 : 9781871167290
Total Pages : 79 pages
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Download or read book History of the 22nd (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers written by Ray Westlake Military Books and published by . This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Simkins
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844155854
Total Pages : 373 pages
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Download or read book Kitchener’s Army written by Peter Simkins and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a major war ? What compelled so many men to volunteer ' and what happened to them once they had taken the King's shilling ? Peter Simkins describes how Kitchener's New Armies were raised and reviews the main political, economic and social effects of the recruiting campaign. He examines the experiences and impressions of the officers and men who made up the New Armies. As well as analysing their motives for enlisting, he explores how they were fed, housed, equipped and trained before they set off for active service abroad. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ranging from government papers to the diaries and letters of individual soldiers, he questions long-held assumptions about the 'rush to the colours' and the nature of patriotism in 1914. The book will be of interest not only to those studying social, political and economic history, but also to general readers who wish to know more about the story of Britain's citizen soldiers in the Great War.

Author : Arthur S. White
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 178150539X
Total Pages : 337 pages
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Download or read book A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army written by Arthur S. White and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.

Author : Edward Madigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317037987
Total Pages : 265 pages
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Download or read book The Clergy in Khaki written by Edward Madigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the First World War. Like its commanders they have often been characterized as embodiments of ineptitude and hypocrisy. Yet, just as historians have reassessed the motives and performance of British generals, this collection offers fresh insights into the war record of British chaplains. Drawing on the expertise of a dozen academic researchers, the collection offers an unprecedented analysis of the subject that embraces military, political, religious and imperial history. The volume also benefits from the professional insights of chaplains themselves, several of its contributors being serving or former members of the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department. Providing the fullest and most objective study yet published, it demonstrates that much of the post-war hostility towards chaplains was driven by political, social or even denominational agendas and that their critics often overlooked the positive contribution that chaplains made to the day-to-day struggles of soldiers trying to cope with the appalling realities of industrial warfare and its aftermath. As the most complete study of the subject to date, this collection marks a major advance in the historiography of the British army, of the British churches and of British society during the First World War, and will appeal to researchers in a broad range of academic disciplines.