Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• CHAPTER I
• SUFFOLK
• Bury St. Edmunds
• The Freedom of the Borough
• Ipswich
• Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
• Regimental Reunions
• Changes in Training
• The Years 1929-1939
• Second Battalion Receives New Colours
• The 250th Anniversary
• September 3rd, 1939 the Depot
• Training at the Depot
• The Soldier
• CHAPTER II
• FIRST BATTALION. SEPT., 1939 - JAN 1945
• The First Months of the War
• The German Offensive
• Allied Advance into Belgium
• Allied Retreat from Belgium
• From the Scheldt to Dunkirk
• Dunkirk
• Moves in England and Scotland
• Training
• The Soldier
• The Battalion
• The Battalion Commander
• CHAPTER III
• FIRST BATTALION. JUNE, 1943 - JULY 1944
• Training in Combined Operations
• Move to the Pre-Invasion Area
• Preliminary "Briefing"
• The Invasion Plan
• "D" Day
• The Advance from the Beach
• Assault of "Hillman" by "A" Company
• The Bridgehead
• Chateau de la Londe
• "B" Company in the Attack
• Consolidation
• CHAPTER IV
• FIRST BATTALION
• Breaking out of Bridgehead
• Tinchebray
• The Advance through France to Begium
• Hamont and Weert
• Battles for Overlon-Venray
• The Castle at Geijsteren
• A rest at Boekel
• The Rhine
• Advance to Bremen
• Occupied Germany
• Move to the Middle East
• CHAPTER V
• SECOND BATTALION
• Razmak
• Tochi Valley Operation
• Internal Security
• Campaign in Burma, 1944
• Arakan
• Imphal
• "Isaac"
• End of the Campaign
• CHAPTER VI
• 4TH AND 5TH BATTALION
• April, 1939 to October 1941
• The Soldier
• Voyage to Singapore
• Battle of Singapore
• Prisoners of War
• Burma Thailand Railway
• Third Phase
• CHAPTER VII
• THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE REGIMENT
• Commanding Officers, 1939-1945
• The Years Between
• The First Battalion
• The Second Battalion
• The Escape Party
• Epilogue
• Honours and Awards
• CHAPTER VIII
• THE SEVENTH BATTALION AND 142ND REGIMENT, RAC
• Training in England
• Early Operations in Tunisia
• Medjez el Bab, Djebel Ang
• Medjez el Bab Gueriat el Atach
• Medjez el Bab, Djebel Bou Aoukas
• Victory in North Africa
• The Italian Campaign
• The Adolf Hitler Line
• The Advance to Florence
• The Gothic Line
• Till Disbandment
• CHAPTER IX
• SECOND LINE BATTALION
• Eighth Battalion
• Sixth Battalion
• Thirtieth Battalion
• Ninth and Thirty-first Battalion
• Seventieth Battalion
• CHAPTER X
• THE HOME GUARD, THE ARMY CADETS, THE ATS
• The Home Guard
• The 2nd Cambridgeshire and Suffolk Bn HG
• The Isle of Ely Battalions
• The 11th Suffolk Bn HG
• The Army Cadets
• The ATS
• APPENDICES