MOST UNFAVOURABLE GROUND
Written by Niall Cherry
Published by Helion & Company
in 2005
ISBN: 1874622035
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- WORLD WAR I
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 The Road to Loos, September 1915
- 2 The Plan for the Attack at Loos
- 3 Over the Top: 25th September 1915, I Corps
- 4 IV Corps
- 5 Overnight 25th/26th September and the efforts to reinforce I and IV Corps
- 6 Behind the British Lines
- 7 The Second Day - 26th September
- 8 The Guards go in - 27th September
- 9 A pause for breath
- 10 The Hohenzollern Redoubt - Again
- 11 Stuttering to a Halt - October and November 1915
- 12 Loos: a Balance Sheet. Casualties and the Medical Services
- 13 The demise of Sir John French and other repercussions
- Appendices
- A 1st Army Order of Battle
- B Lessons learned from Loos
- C Second Lt K Kershaw, G Company, 9th Gordon Highlanders
- D Report from M Company, 10th Gordon Highlanders, 44th Brigade on actions 25th/26th September
- E Special Divisional Order, 15th Division, 28th September
- F The experiences of an infantry unit at Loos, a contemporary report
- G Notes from the History of the 10th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment for September 1915
- H Report by the 12th Battalion Royal Scots on Operations 25th/27th September 1915
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index