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Army Service Corps 1902 1918
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Author : Michael Young
language : en
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Release Date : 2012-03-30
Army Service Corps 1902 1918 written by Michael Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-30 with categories.
'Ally Slopers Cavalry' may well have been a music hall joke in Victorian times, but the re-organised Army Service Corps (ASC) came into its own in the First World War, providing essential support to the British Army in every theatre of war. With so little published material available, even our leading historians have only the sketchiest idea of the logistic network behind the front line and the activities of the men and women involved. This freshly researched book by the last curator of the RASC & RCT Museum provides a wealth of new and fascinating information on what became eventually a 326,000- strongcorps, along with 120 photographs and 21 annexes of archive material. The ASC's contribution to the 1914-1918 war has been ignored for too long - until now.
Postcards Of The Army Service Corps 1902 1918
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Author : Michael Young
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Release Date : 2016-09-30
Postcards Of The Army Service Corps 1902 1918 written by Michael Young and has been published by Pen & Sword Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-30 with categories.
Postcards of the Army Service Corps 1902 - 1918 presents the early history of the Army Service Corps of the British Army by means of a unique collection of some 540 images, mainly contemporary postcards. The conduct of war changed dramatically in the late Victorian era, after the debacle in the Crimean War and humiliating setbacks in the Boer War. Commanders realized the vital importance of logistics in any campaign. The formation of the ASC marked a significant milestone in the modernization of the Army and it was fortunate that by the outbreak of The Great War the Corps was well established in the Order of Battle. The development and introduction of mechanical transport was to play a vital role throughout the 1914 - 1918 war and the ASC was pivotal to this.The images displayed in this superb book represent life in the ASC at a crucial period of its history. They show the personal side of soldiering as opposed to the more formal official perspective. All have been collected and captioned by the author who is the foremost expert on the Corps history. The result is a stunning array of images that capture military life as it was over 100 years ago.
Order Of Battle Of The British Army 1914
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Author : Richard A Rinaldi
language : en
Publisher: Ravi Rikhye
Release Date : 2008-07-15
Order Of Battle Of The British Army 1914 written by Richard A Rinaldi and has been published by Ravi Rikhye this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-15 with History categories.
A complete Order of Battle for the British Army in 1914. 470 content pages.
Army Service Corps 1902 1918
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Author : Michael Young
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Release Date : 2000
Army Service Corps 1902 1918 written by Michael Young and has been published by Pen & Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"Army Service Corps 1902-1918 provides detailed perspective on the role of what was then a relatively unknown and undervalued Corps. Logistic Support, to use modern parlance, may be unglamorous but, without it, no war can ever be won." "Most of the contents of this book, including over 100 photographs and significant archive material, have never been published before. Army Service Corps 1902-1918, being a major contribution to our knowledge of the Great War and the period immediately preceding it, will appeal to both the specialist and general reader as well as providing essential background knowledge for all those serving in the successor Corps today."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Shot At Dawn
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Author : Julian Putkowski
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword
Release Date : 2003
Shot At Dawn written by Julian Putkowski and has been published by Pen & Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
Shot at Dawn chronicles the tragic fate of more than 300 soldiers on the Western Front between 1918-18. The authors scoured the Imperial War Museum, public records and war diaries to piece together the jigsaw. A graphic account of man's inhumanity to man is the result of their labours.
A Soldier Of The Empire Pt2
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Author : Lawrence Brodley
language : en
Publisher: ShieldCrest
Release Date : 101-01-01
A Soldier Of The Empire Pt2 written by Lawrence Brodley and has been published by ShieldCrest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 101-01-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Benjamin William Badcock, my Grandfather, was an ordinary Englishman. Yet like millions of others of his generation, he lived through extra-ordinary times. In 1880, the year of his birth, between twenty five and thirty million people lived in Great Britain, yet its industry and economy dominated the world, and its Queen/Empress, Victoria, held more than a quarter of its 1.5 2 billion population in thrall through her vast navy and tiny army. But the following year, in 1881, a handful of Boer farmers threw down a challenge that reverberated across Africa and the world and set a pattern for the 20th Century that would lead to the dissolution of the old imperial world order, and ultimately to the break-up of the British Empire: all within the lifetime of one soldier, my grandfather, Benjamin William Badcock. Had you met Ben you would have found him to be, like millions of other British citizens of his time, oblivious of the fact that he was (and they were) making history. But though not a historical figure, he was, nevertheless a participant in, and a witness to, many great events and historical moments, living, as he did, through the greatest period of industrial development and socio-economic change that Britain or the world had ever experienced. Son of a Devonport soldier, his namesake, Benjamin Badcock, Ben was born in a tented Summer camp at Platras on the side of a Cyprus mountain. At three months he was jolted down its mountainside in a donkey pannier as the regimental-train of his father s regiment, the 2nd Battalion, 20th Foot, The East Devons, marched to Larnaca. In the following year, 1881, the family and regiment would move to Malta, and from thence (remustered as Lancashire Fusiliers!) to Ireland in Royal Naval sailing ships. That voyage, from Malta to Ireland took 3 4 weeks to accomplish, depending on the winds a journey which 70 years later, by the miracle of air travel, would reduce to as many hours as it had taken weeks before: a miracle which by the time of his death in 1964, Ben himself had witnessed evolving from Colonel Sam Cody s tentative stringbag flights at Farnborough in 1910; through the development of aerial-warfare in two world wars, and its metamorphosis into the jet fighters, V bombers and airliners of the 1950 s and 60 s. Much of this he witnessed from his back-garden in Aldershot as the myriad prototypes circled and dived in the then ALL British, Farnborough air shows, held annually each September. Those changes, however, had been bought at great human cost as a result of clashing imperial egos, and conflicting political and socio-economic imperatives, the price of which is still being paid in continuous political conflict and instability across the globe and in particular in the Middle East: conflict in which British armed forces have been constantly and tirelessly involved, both at home in Ireland, and overseas. And it was in these conflicts, in one way or another, that the Badcock family were involved from 1867 to 1969: the zenith of which service culminated in the award to my grandfather, Benjamin William Badcock (later Baddock) of the Military Cross (MC), The Medaille Militaire, and his three Mentions in Despatches during WW 1; the Great War; or Big Scrap as Ben called it. But to talk of that gets ahead of ourselves, for prior to that my Grandfather would first have to be raised; to take the "Queen's shilling;" be trained and blooded for the task in the 2nd Boer War; and to meet and marry Mabel Lawrence, and with her, to raise a family of their own. And that is a story in its own right.
Food And War In Twentieth Century Europe
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Author : Rachel Duffett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Food And War In Twentieth Century Europe written by Rachel Duffett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Social Science categories.
Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative perspective which incorporates belligerent, occupied and neutral countries provides new insights into the relationship between food and war. The analysis ranges from military provisioning and systems of food rationing to civilians' survival strategies and the role of war in stimulating innovation and modernization.
A Soldier Of The Empire
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Author : Lawrence Brodley
language : en
Publisher: ShieldCrest
Release Date : 2013
A Soldier Of The Empire written by Lawrence Brodley and has been published by ShieldCrest this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Collections categories.
Benjamin William Badcock, my Grandfather, was an ordinary Englishman. Yet like millions of others of his generation, he lived through extra-ordinary times. In 1880, the year of his birth, between twenty five and thirty million people lived in Great Britain, yet its industry and economy dominated the world, and its Queen/Empress, Victoria, held more than a quarter of its 1.5 2 billion population in thrall through her vast navy and tiny army. But the following year, in 1881, a handful of Boer farmers threw down a challenge that reverberated across Africa and the world and set a pattern for the 20th Century that would lead to the dissolution of the old imperial world order, and ultimately to the break-up of the British Empire: all within the lifetime of one soldier, my grandfather, Benjamin William Badcock. Had you met Ben you would have found him to be, like millions of other British citizens of his time, oblivious of the fact that he was (and they were) making history. But though not a historical figure, he was, nevertheless a participant in, and a witness to, many great events and historical moments, living, as he did, through the greatest period of industrial development and socio-economic change that Britain or the world had ever experienced. Son of a Devonport soldier, his namesake, Benjamin Badcock, Ben was born in a tented Summer camp at Platras on the side of a Cyprus mountain. At three months he was jolted down its mountainside in a donkey pannier as the regimental-train of his father s regiment, the 2nd Battalion, 20th Foot, The East Devons, marched to Larnaca. In the following year, 1881, the family and regiment would move to Malta, and from thence (remustered as Lancashire Fusiliers!) to Ireland in Royal Naval sailing ships. That voyage, from Malta to Ireland took 3 4 weeks to accomplish, depending on the winds a journey which 70 years later, by the miracle of air travel, would reduce to as many hours as it had taken weeks before: a miracle which by the time of his death in 1964, Ben himself had witnessed evolving from Colonel Sam Cody s tentative stringbag flights at Farnborough in 1910; through the development of aerial-warfare in two world wars, and its metamorphosis into the jet fighters, V bombers and airliners of the 1950 s and 60 s. Much of this he witnessed from his back-garden in Aldershot as the myriad prototypes circled and dived in the then ALL British, Farnborough air shows, held annually each September. Those changes, however, had been bought at great human cost as a result of clashing imperial egos, and conflicting political and socio-economic imperatives, the price of which is still being paid in continuous political conflict and instability across the globe and in particular in the Middle East: conflict in which British armed forces have been constantly and tirelessly involved, both at home in Ireland, and overseas. And it was in these conflicts, in one way or another, that the Badcock family were involved from 1867 to 1969: the zenith of which service culminated in the award to my grandfather, Benjamin William Badcock (later Baddock) of the Military Cross (MC), The Medaille Militaire, and his three Mentions in Despatches during WW 1; the Great War; or Big Scrap as Ben called it. But to talk of that gets ahead of ourselves, for prior to that my Grandfather would first have to be raised; to take the "Queen's shilling;" be trained and blooded for the task in the 2nd Boer War; and to meet and marry Mabel Lawrence, and with her, to raise a family of their own. And that is a story in its own right.
The Great War And The British Empire
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Author : Michael J.K. Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-25
The Great War And The British Empire written by Michael J.K. Walsh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with History categories.
In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.
The Royal Army Service Corps
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Author : Sir John William Fortescue
language : en
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Release Date : 1930
The Royal Army Service Corps written by Sir John William Fortescue and has been published by Naval & Military Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with History categories.
"These two volumes comprise the first comprehensive history of the RASC, taking the story of that Corps from its earliest beginnings as the Royal Waggoners at the end of the 18th century to the end of the Great War. ... The first volume is by the well known historian and author of the monumental History of the British Army, Sir John Fortescue, and he traces the course of Transport and Supply through the innumerable campaigns involving the British Army which he has described in his history of the British Army. ... after a brief survey of the history of transport and supply from the earliest times, his story proper begins with the wars of the French Revolution and Empire from 1793 to 1815. It was in this period that the new Corps was formed and he describes its part in those wars, and in subsequent chapters he covers the period from Waterloo to the Crimea and the various small wars - Ashanti, China, Kaffir, Sikh, and then the Crimean War when it became the Land Transport Corps and the Military Train. The Army Service Corps was authorised under that title in November 1869 and the rest of the book is the record of the Corps up to the end of the S. African War. An appendix provides a tabulated history of the Corps and its predecessors from 1794 to 1894. ... The second volume is essentially concerned with the Great War ... a detailed survey of the Corps' progress during the period from the end of the war in S. Africa to the eve of the Great War. Then comes the detailed study of the activities of the Corps in that war and in every theatre of that war, including operations on the NW Frontier ..."--Publisher's website.
