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MOST UNFAVOURABLE GROUND

Written by Niall Cherry
Published by Helion & Company in 2005
ISBN: 1874622035

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Front cover

Cover of MOST UNFAVOURABLE GROUND by Niall Cherry

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