Welsh Guards
Published on 20. February 1981
128 pages
978-1-4738-0137-0 (ISBN)
Description
Although the youngest of the Regiments in the Household Division, the Welsh Guards have established a reputation on both the battlefield, and on the parade ground, that is fully equal to the proud standards for which Guardsmen have long been famous. The Welsh Guards were formed in 1915, and they saw much hard fighting in both World Wars. Of the first thirty years of their existence, almost a third were spent at war and as a result tradition and regimental spirit were quickly forged. Such is the variety of a modern soldier's life that in the years since the Second World War, the Welsh Guards have been employed in sixteen different countrys, (in some of them two or three times) as diverse as texas and the snows of artic Norway. This swift account takes their story from the regiment's foundation in 1915, from their baptism of fire at loos, through another World War, and on to the tragic business of trying to preserve lives, and some sort of life, in the internecine bitterness of Northern Ireland.
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John Retallack
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales, Colonel, Welsh Guards
- List of Plates
- Prologue
- 1 Formation
- 2 The Great War: A Bitter Struggle 6
- Loos-1915
- Winter 1915-16-the Ypres Salient
- The Somme 1916: Ginchy-Flers-Courcelette-Morval
- Winter 1916-17
- Passchendaele 1917-Cambrai (Gouzeaucourt )
- Winter 1917-18: Arras, the Line-the German Offensive
- 3 The Great War: Advance to Victory
- St Leger
- The Canal du Nord
- Pursuit: St Vaast-River Selle-Bavai
- Armistice
- Interlude: Between the Wars-1919-1939
- 4 The Second World War: 1939-1943
- 1940: 1st Battalion, Arras-Dunkirk
- 1940: 2nd Battalion-Boulogne
- A Long Wait
- 1943: 3rd Battalion, North Africa-Fondouk
- 1943: 3rd Battalion, North Africa- Hammam Lif
- 5 The Second World War: 1944
- 3rd Battalion: Italy-Cerasola
- 3rd Battalion: Italy-Cassino
- 3rd Battalion: Italy-Piccolo and Arce
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: Return to France
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: Normandy-the Battle of the Breakout
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: the Race for Brussels
- 3rd Battalion: Italy-Perugia and San Marco
- 3rd Battalion: Italy-From Arezzo to the Gothic Line
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: Belgium-the Road to Arnhem
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: Holland-Operation Market Garden
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: Winter in Belgium and Holland
- 3rd Battalion: Winter in Italy
- 6 The Second World War: 1945
- 1st and 2nd Battalions: the Reichswald Forest
- 3rd Battalion: the Po and the Adige
- 2nd Battalion: Germany-the Last Act
- Postscript
- 7 The Post-war Years
- The First Ten Years: 1945-55
- A New Epoch: 1956-65
- The Savage Wars of Peace: 1965-76
- Index
