
Birmingham Pals
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Prelude - THE LAST DAYS OF PEACE
- Chapter One - Birmingham
- Birmingham's links to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- Birmingham's Royal Warwickshire Territorials
- Chapter Two - Birmingham: August 1914
- August Bank Holiday
- Birmingham's Territorials off to camp
- Birmingham at War
- Birmingham's Territorials
- 'Your King and Country Need You': Kitchener's Call to Arms
- Formation of Kitchener's New Army
- Expansion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment During August 1914
- Birmingham: August 1914
- HMS Birmingham
- Southern General Hospital
- Birmingham's Munitions Achievement
- Birmingham Small Arms Company
- Chapter Three - Birmingham Pals: The Turn of the Middle Class
- Pals Battalion
- Birth of the Birmingham Pals
- Saturday 29 August, 1914
- War Office Acceptance
- Remarkable Response
- Second Birmingham Battalion Suggested
- Register Closes
- Companies of Chums
- Equipment Fund
- Enlistment and Attestation
- 3rd Birmingham Battalion
- Equipment Fund Committee
- 'The Pets of the City'
- Second Battalion Command
- Sunday 4 October, 1914. 1st 1st Birmingham Battalion Church Parade
- WILLIAM HEREWARD EHRHARDT
- Who were these Birmingham Birmingham Pals?
- Chapter Four - Training Commences - 'Berlin via Sutton'
- Sutton Coldfield
- Basic Military Training
- Lord Mayor's Inspection
- First Week Over With
- 2nd Birmingham Battalion Begin Training
- First Casualty
- 3rd Birmingham Battalion Mobilised
- November 1914: Training Difficulties
- Commissions, Transfers and Reserve Companies
- 14th, 15th and 16th (Service) Battalions
- Uniforms
- Christmas 1914
- Training: January to June, 1915
- Lord Kitchener Visits Lichfield
- The City Battalions' New Home
- 3rd Birmingham Battalion Move to Malvern
- Wensleydale
- The Second Train
- Hornsea
- Codford Camp: Salisbury Plain
- Preparations for France
- Chapter Five - 14th, 15th and 16th Royal Warwicks: Birmingham Pals to France
- The 5th Division
- 5th Division at the Bray Front
- Birmingham Battalions at the Bray Front
- Birmingham Pals First Casualties
- 15th Royal Warwicks at Maricourt
- 16th Royal Warwicks
- Christmas 1915
- The 'Whizz-Bangs'
- Christmas Day Misery for 3rd Birmingham Battalion
- Divisional Reorganisation
- January 1916
- Leaving the Bray Front
- 1st Birmingham Battalion in Isolation
- Increase in German Artillery
- More Misery for 3rd Birmingham Pals
- Chapter Six - The Arras Front
- Arras
- 5th Division at Arras
- 14th Royal Warwicks (1st Birmingham)
- 15th Royal Warwicks (2nd Birmingham Battalion)
- Trench Raid
- The Right Party
- The Left Party
- German Trench Raid
- First Decorations for the City Battalions
- Chapter Seven - The Somme: July to October 1916
- Birmingham's Territorials - Saturday 1 July 1916
- 5th Division returns to the Somme
- The Battle Commences
- Attack on Wood Lane
- Over the Top
- Sergeant Cooper's Nightmare at Wood Lane
- Tragic Results of the Attack on Wood Lane
- Birmingham Pals: Aftermath
- Pommiers Redoubt
- Sad News for Lieutenant Alan Furse
- 16th Royal Warwicks (3rd Birmingham) at Longueval
- 14th Royal Warwicks: Second Attempt on Wood Lane
- Reasons for Failure
- 5th Division at Rest
- Return to the Somme
- Attack on Falfemont Farm
- Falfemont Farm: Second Attempt
- 'Magnificent Performance'
- The Battles of Flers-Courcelette and Morval
- Battle of Morval 25 - 28 September
- Farewell to the Somme
- Chapter Eight - La Bassée Front: October 1916 to March 1917
- Vimy Ridge: Battle of Arras, April to September 1917
- Oppy Wood Attack: 16th Royal Warwicks
- Trench Raid: 15th Royal Warwicks
- Third Battle of Ypres: September to November 1917
- 16th Royal Warwicks Attack on Polderhoek Château
- Counting the costs
- Polderhoek Château: Third Attempt
- Farewell to Flanders
- Chapter Nine - Italian Front: December 1917 to April 1918
- River Piave
- Sham Attack
- France: 21 March 1918: The German Spring Offensive
- Divisional Reorganisation
- Nieppe Forest: April to August 1918
- Raid by 16th Royal Warwicks
- 'Operation Borderland'
- 'Operation Borderland' 15th Royal Warwicks
- Final Operations: August to November 1918
- Second Battles of the Somme 1918
- Battles of the Hindenburg Line
- Heavy Casualties
- PRIVATE TED FRANCIS - (3rd Birmingham Battalion)
- Divisional Reorganisation
- The Advance Continues
- Chapter Ten - Conclusion
- Christmas 1918
- January to April 1919
- Epilogue
- Birmingham Battalions' Gallantry Awards
- Birmingham Battalions' Roll of Honour
- Acknowledgements
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