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Part One of the War of the Yorkshire Gurkhas. An account of the 5th Green Howards at the Battle of St Julien, during the Second Battle of Ypres, April 1915.
Cover Blurb:
Young men, volunteers from Yorkshire and the north-east, away from home for the first time, stepped into the breach in the allied line in April 1915 and, alongside the lion-hearted Canadians, brought to a halt the advancing might of the German Army. Despite poison gas, a withering bombardment, lack of supplies and fresh water, the Territorials of the 5th Green Howards stood their ground and did all that was asked of them in this, their first action of the Great War. Indeed, such was their fighting ferocity that it earned them the nickname 'The Yorkshire Gurkhas'; a reputation they would live up to time and again as they fought in all the major engagements on the Western Front.
Here, together for the first time, is a sterling narrative account of that battle and the thoughts and feelings of the men who fought it. Here too is their poetry, evocative of both their innocence and their courage. Alongside the text are their photographs, many published for the first time in over eighty years, and with them the biographical details of the men the Green Howards are proud to call 'The Yorkshire Gurkhas', the men who underwent their Baptism Of Fire at St Julien in April 1915.
BOOK DETAILS:
Title: BAPTISM OF FIRE
ISBN: 0-9535204-0-4
Author: Mark Marsay
Genre: Military History/First World War
Length: 224 pages - black and white - 130 illustrations
Size: 129mm x 197mm (portrait)
Cover: paperback - full colour
5th Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) in September 1914, aged 19. The author's grandfather, whose diaries and papers form the backbone of the 'War of The Yorkshire Gurkhas' series.
5th Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) in May 1996, aged 101. The very last of 'The Yorkshire Gurkhas'.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes, of Sledmere Hall, near Driffield, Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion. Though responsible for their war readiness, he was unable to lead them, and was kept at home by the War Office.
Lads of the 5th Battalion say their farewells as they pack the Scarborough railway station waiting to entrain for Darlington after initial training.
