Glory is no compensation : the Border Regiment at Gallipoli / Ralph May with Stuart Eastwood and Clive Elderton

May, Ralph. Eastwood, Stuart A. [contributor]. Elderton, Clive [contributor]

ISBN 10: 1857942140 / ISBN 13: 9781857942149

Published by Kettering, Northamptonshire : Border Regiment and King's Own Royal Border Regiment Museum in association with Silver Link Publishing, 2003

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 320 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (316-317) and index. Subjects; Great Britain. Army. Border Regiment History. World War, (1914-1918) Regimental histories Great Britain. World War, (1914-1918) Campaigns Turkey Gallipoli Peninsula. Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) History, Military. The Great War (1914-1918), and Associated Conflicts Regiments English County Regiments. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Glory is no compensation : the Border Regiment at Gallipoli / Ralph May with Stuart Eastwood and Clive Elderton
• Publisher: Kettering, Northamptonshire : Border Regiment and King's Own Royal Border Regiment Museum in association with Silver Link Publishing
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857942140
• ISBN 13: 9781857942149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

In this compelling and meticulously researched chronicle using the first hand accounts of the men who were there Ralph May describes the background to the 1st and 6th (service) Battalions The Border Regiment from 1907 to 1914 in Gibraltar, India and Burma, followed by their fortunes throughout the Gallipoli Campaign. The conditions under which the soldiers lived and fought are graphically described with extracts from diaries, letters and official documents.