At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
Author: Thomas Hope Floyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1920
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

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At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
Author: Thomas Hope Floyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781406842197

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Lt. Col. Bertram Best-Dunkley was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Ypres on 31st July 1917 but died from his wounds on 5 August.

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
Author: Hope Thomas Floyd
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781435360006

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At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley
Author: Thomas Floyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre:
ISBN:

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Book Excerpt:...and the priest pronounced the Benediction. Then the congregation came out, and behind came the boys and girls and the priest. The people lined the road, and the procession walked on until it reached a kind of yard leading to some institute. The people followed. They all halted inside here. Then the priest prepared to make a little speech and pronounce another Benediction; but he would not proceed until all the little choir boys were perfectly quiet. He waited about five minutes. Then he preached a brief sermon (of course in French) directed to the children. I could not understand much of what he was talking about; but I think he was very eloquent. I could deduce from words here and there that he was reminding them that their fathers and brothers and uncles were fighting at the front, and telling them that if they were not good little boys and girls their fathers and brothers and uncles would fall in battle! Then he pronounced his final Benediction, and we scattered--5.20."I could see that everybody...

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley (WWI Centenary Series)

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley (WWI Centenary Series)
Author: Thomas Hope Floyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781473313583

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""In these pages I give to the public, for what they are worth, my own personal impressions of the people and things I saw and with whom I came into contact. I hope I have revealed the late Colonel Best-Dunkley to the public just as he was-as he appeared to me and as he appeared to others. I believe that in this I am doing right. I am fully aware of the many imperfections of this book; but if it succeeds at all in vividly recalling to those who were in the Ypres Salient in 1917 the atmosphere of that time, and if it should encourage others to risk a similar venture, I shall feel amply rewarded."" This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley - Scholar's Choice Edition

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Thomas Hope Floyd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296092184

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On Active Service Series. at Ypres with Best-Dunkley

On Active Service Series. at Ypres with Best-Dunkley
Author: Thomas Hope Floyd
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2017-09-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780649068586

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British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War

British Infantry Battalion Commanders in the First World War
Author: Peter E. Hodgkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 131717190X

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Recent studies of the British Army during the First World War have fundamentally overturned historical understandings of its strategy and tactics, yet the chain of command that linked the upper echelons of GHQ to the soldiers in the trenches remains poorly understood. In order to reconnect the lines of communication between the General Staff and the front line, this book examines the British army’s commanders at battalion level, via four key questions: (i) How and where resources were found from the small officer corps of 1914 to cope with the requirement for commanding officers (COs) in the expanding army; (ii) What was the quality of the men who rose to command; (iii) Beyond simple overall quality, exactly what qualities were perceived as making an effective CO; and (iv) To what extent a meritocracy developed in the British army by the Armistice. Based upon a prosopographical analysis of a database over 4,000 officers who commanded infantry battalions during the war, the book tackles one of the central historiographical issues pertaining to the war: the qualities of the senior British officer. In so doing it challenges lingering popular conceptions of callous incompetence, as well more scholarly criticism that has derided the senior British officer, but has done so without a data-driven perspective. Through his thorough statistical analysis Dr Peter Hodgkinson adds a valuable new perspective to the historical debate underway regarding the nature of British officers during the extraordinary expansion of the Army between 1914 and 1918, and the remarkable, yet often forgotten, British victories of The Hundred Days.

VCs Passchendaele 1917

VCs Passchendaele 1917
Author: Stephen Snelling
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2012-02-29
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0752483730

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Of all the costly campaigns fought across the Western Front during the First World War, none strikes a more chilling chord than Passchendaele. Even now, more than ninety years on, the very mention of the name is enough to conjure up apocalyptic images of desolation and misery on a quite bewildering scale – humanity drowning in a sea of mud. Passchendaele has come to serve as a symbol of the folly and futility of war, chiefly remembered for its carnage and profligate waste of human lives. It also stands as testament to the endurance and extraordinary courage displayed by men of all ranks and nationalities. During the 3 1⁄2 month long struggle, which claimed the lives of more than 60,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen, 61 men were adjudged to have performed deeds worthy of the Empire’s highest award for valour – the Victoria Cross.Men from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa were among their number, alongside men from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They came from all walks of life, counting humble privates and, for the first time, a general among their ranks.This is a lasting memorial to a body of men who deserve to be numbered among the bravest of the brave.