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A vivid and evocative history of a Service Battalion, formed after an initial suggestion by Sheffield University students, which saw service at Serre on the Somme, and subsequently at Vimy Ridge and Arras. With photos, maps and a Roll of Honour.
Raised on the suggestion of the politician and economic historian H.A.L. Fisher, then Liberal Education Minister, after the idea was mooted by two of his students at Sheffield University, this Service Battalion, after initial training in and around Sheffield saw its first overseas service in Egypt, the Battalion was well and truly ‘blooded’ along with so many others, on July 1st 1916 at Serre on the Somme. After service at Vimy Ridge, it returned to the Somme and more hard fighting at Hebuterne. The Battalion helped to defend Arras during the Ludendorff offensives in 1918. Accompanied by photographs, maps and a Roll of Honour, this is a very vivid and evocative history.
| Author/Editor | Richard. A. Sparling |
|---|---|
| Product Code | 11061 |
| Delivery | Usually despatched within 2-5 Days |
| Format | 2009 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1920). SB. 143 pp. Illustrated |
| ISBN | 9781847349781 |
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