The Shiny Seventh
The 7th (Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at War, 1915-1918
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2004
288 pages
978-1-80010-770-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Shiny Seventh was an ordinary Kitchener battalion, a body of men raised for the duration of the war, forming part of an ordinary county regiment.
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Len Holden | M. G. Deacon
The Shiny Seventh
The 7th (Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at War, 1915-1918
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09/2004
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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Persons
Deacon M. G.:
Martin Deacon joined Bedfordshire County Council as a records management assistant in 1990, qualifying as an archivist in 1994. He joined Buckinghamshire Archives on a temporary contract in 2018 cataloguing the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society collection.Holden Len:
Dr Len Holden taught history at Redborne School, Ampthill before moving first to Cranfield University, then to Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, where he specialised in human resource management, on which he has written or co-authored books and articles. Since retirement he has focussed on local history and has been Secretary of Market Harborough Historical Society (opens in a new window), the editor of The Harborough Historian, Chair of Friends of the Harborough Museum and one of its Trustees. He has written a history of the town (opens in a new window) and has also made films on local history themes, two of which including Tales of a Land Army Girl, have won international amateur film prizes (opens in a new window).
Martin Deacon joined Bedfordshire County Council as a records management assistant in 1990, qualifying as an archivist in 1994. He joined Buckinghamshire Archives on a temporary contract in 2018 cataloguing the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society collection.Holden Len:
Dr Len Holden taught history at Redborne School, Ampthill before moving first to Cranfield University, then to Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, where he specialised in human resource management, on which he has written or co-authored books and articles. Since retirement he has focussed on local history and has been Secretary of Market Harborough Historical Society (opens in a new window), the editor of The Harborough Historian, Chair of Friends of the Harborough Museum and one of its Trustees. He has written a history of the town (opens in a new window) and has also made films on local history themes, two of which including Tales of a Land Army Girl, have won international amateur film prizes (opens in a new window).
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- PART ONE: The War Diary
- 1915
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
- PART TWO: The Personal Diary of Second Lieutenant Henry J.Cartwright
- Appendix A: Battalion Moves
- 1. Table of Moves and Locations
- 2. Selected Operational Orders
- Appendix B: Battles
- 1. Battle Operational Orders
- 2. Battle Reports
- 3. Congratulatory Telegrams
- 4. Battlefield Walks
- Appendix C: Casualties
- 1. Casualty Lists
- 2. Places of Birth of Other Ranks Who Died
- 3. Comparative Battle Casualties - Other Ranks Only
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Place Names
- Organisation Names Index
