Kitchener's Men

the King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915 - 1918

By: HUTTON JOHN

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Hardcover | 20 August 2008

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In Kitchener's Men John Hutton provides a absorbing account of the raising, training and fighting experiences of the Service and Territorial battalions of the King's Own Royal Lancasters in France during the Great War. His book gives a graphic insight into the daily routine and grim reality of warfare on the Western Front for men who were mostly recruited from the Furness area of the North-West. They came from the steel mills, shipyards and engineering workshops of this heavily industrialised part of Britain. They responded to the call to defend their country and its values at a critical moment in the nation's history, and the endured incredible hardship, suffering and violence as a result. All together, these battalions of the King's Own took part in every major campaign on the Western Front from the spring of 1915 until the end of the war. They had a remarkable record, and John Hutton's meticulously researched history allows the reader to follow them through every phase of the fighting. His account makes compelling reading. SALES ? Complete history of the 4th, 7th, 8th and 11th Battalions of the King?s Own Royal Lancasters in the Great War ? Describes the part played by the King?s Own in all the major campaigns ? Focuses on men who came from the Furness area of the North-West ? Features dramatic unpublished eyewitness accounts, diary extracts and letters ? Fully illustrated with archive photographs, modern photographs and maps ? Vivid insight into the lives of soldiers at war AUTHOR John Hutton is the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness and Secretary of State for Business and Enterprise. His book was inspired by the men he met in his constituency who served with the King?s Own in the Great War.

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List of Plates
The Summer of 1914 and the Outbreak of War	p. 1
The Fourth Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1914-1919	p. 9
Autumn 1914: the first days of the war	p. 9
The order to move	p. 12
1916: a new division and a new onslaught	p. 21
1917: Ypres and Cambrai	p. 45
1918: backs to the wall and advance to victory	p. 63
The 7th Battalion	p. 78
The beginning of the battalion	p. 78
The war begins in earnest	p. 80
1916 and the Battle of the Somme	p. 90
1917: Messines Ridge and Third Ypres	p. 116
The final few weeks	p. 137
8th Battalion	p. 141
The first few months	p. 141
Overseas service begins	p. 142
1916: the beginning of heavy fighting	p. 144
Arras and Ypres	p. 169
The final campaign	p. 184
The 11th Battalion	p. 204
The bantams take shape	p. 204
Off to war	p. 207
1917: the year of heavy fighting	p. 212
1918: the end of the bantams	p. 226
Shot at Dawn	p. 228
Further Reading	p. 240
Index	p. 241
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the King's Own Royal Lancasters on the Western Front 1915 - 1918

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