Palestine 1917

ISBN-13: 9780710430342 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 175 str.

Robert Wilson

Opis

A personal account of all ranks of the Yeomanry regiment, by a soldier who served in Sinai, Palestine and Syria. A likeable and remarkable character of the old yeoman class, his letters and correspondence notes the elation, dejection, of tedium and anxiety of desert warfare.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Army experiences in England. 2. General Introduction to the Middle Eastern campaign and to the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry in particular. En route to Egypt - settling in with the Regiment. 3. Baptism of Fire at Romani, August 1916. 4. Movements in Egypt: action at Rafa - and wounded. 5. In hospital Port Said and convalescent at Alexandria. Preliminaries and first two battles for Gaza, Spring 1917. 6. Summer 1917 - stalemate - the lighter side of desert warfare - General Allenby takes over – on course in Cairo and leave in Alexandria. 7. Success at Gaza - Cavalry charge at Huj - Jerusalem by Christmas. 8. 1918 - significant meeting in Cairo - Spring and summer in the Jordan Valley - abortive expedition across the Jordan. 9. The Big Push - the jaws close at Damascus. 10. Malaria at Baalbek - Macabre adventures in Beirut- end of active service. 11. Journey home 1919 - Hero’s welcome?

O autorze

Robert Henry Wilson was bom in Shrivenham on 19th January 1894 the fourth son of a well-known fanner dealer. With his younger sister he attended the local dame school and then went to Burford Grammar as a boarder. In 1904 the family moved to Prebendal Farm at Bishopstone on historic Wiltshire downland, where his father leased a sizeable acreage from the Church Commissioners. After leaving school Robert joined his father and three older brothers to work the farm and seems to have enjoyed a full sporting and social life before leaving home, on his twenty-first birthday, to join the Berkshire Yeomanry.