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The Duke of Wellington's West Riding
Regiment part of the Kings Division. Raised in 1702 as Huntingdons
Regiment becoming the 33rd of Foot in 1751. Historical military art prints
and military uniform prints of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding
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Zubayr, Iraq by David Rowlands 1st
Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Operation TELIC, April
2003.
The 33rd (1st Yorkshire, West Riding ) Regiment at the
Battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815 by David Rowlands
The 33rd (Duke of Wellingtons) Regiment storming the
Great Redoubt at the Battle of Alma, 20th September 1854 by David Rowlands
Corporal Wayne Mills, 1st Battalion The
Duke of Wellingtons Regiment, in Action Near Gorazde, Bosnia 29th April
1994, for which he was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross By David
Rowlands
The 1st Battalion Duke of
Wellingtons Regiment at the
Battle of Sittang Bridge, Burma, February 1942 by David Rowlands
Sergeant Harvey Collecting The
Wounded And Placing Them in an Ambulance Wagon Under Heavy Fire.
Following their great attack of October 31st 1914, the
Germans made yet another supreme effort on November 11th to
break through the British lines in front of Ypres.
For the final stroke the 1st and 4th
Brigade of the Prussian Guard were brought up from the Arras district,
and launched against the point of the British salient on the Menin road.
On the following day Sergeant A. Harvey, of the 2nd
Battalion West Riding Regiment, collected sixteen wounded men by himself
and placed them in an ambulance wagon on the Menin road under continuous
shrapnel fire. For his
conspicuously gallant conduct he was awarded the D.C.M.
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History of the 1/4th
Battlaion, Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment, 1914 - 1919 by Capt P
G Bales. This is a very good and informative history of a
Territorial battalion during the Great War, written by an officer who
served in it as Intelligence Officer, Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant and
who for more than two years was responsible for keeping the War Diary. He
has made good use of this responsibility and in a series of appendices has
produced the sort of detail not often seen in a battalion or regimental
history. There is the battalion itinerary which charts every movement and
location with dates from 4th August 1914 to 19th June 1919 with
explanatory notes and comments, such as: 28.2.16. [Move to] Right section,
Authuille Trenches. Relieved 1/4th Bn KOYLI. Another lists every officer
who served in the battalion noting when they joined (the originals are
identified) and what befell them, with dates; e.g. killed, wounded, sick,
transferred etc and then there is a similar list for all the Warrant
Officers and Company Quarter Master Sergeants, I do not remember seeing
such a list in any other history. There is a summary of casualties which
shows the various periods of time over which they were incurred and the
relevant sector of the front - a total of 98 officers 2,733 other ranks.
There is also a list of Honours and Awards, which includes one VC, and it
is made clear that only those conferred on personnel for services rendered
while actually serving with the Battalion are included. There is no
complete battalion Roll of Honour nor, unfortunately, is there an index.
4th DW was one of the regiments three Territorial
battalions (the other two were 5th and 6th), based in Halifax, Yorks, part
of the 2nd West Riding Brigade (later 147th), West Riding Division (later
49th). For the first three months of the war it was on coast defence near
Hull and Grimsby before moving to Doncaster, where it remained till
embarking for France on 14th April 1915. It fought on the Western Front
for the rest of the war, staying in the same brigade and division. The
story of the battalion, written primarily for the men who served with it,
is well told, based on official documents, supplemented by personal
recollections of many officers and other ranks; the sketch maps are clear
and most of them concentrate on the battalion’s front as opposed to the
general area-type maps. Well recommended.
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History
of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 1st and 2nd Battalions 1881 -
1923. by Brig Gen C D Bruce 1927.
Essentially the story of the 2nd Battalion on the
Western Front. The 1st Battalion remained in India throughout the
war.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2603.
263
pages.
Price £22 |
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