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Sources
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Jonathan King
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Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing. This is a biography of Alec Campbell of the Australian 15th Battalion. He joined at only 16 yeaqrs of age.
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Max Arthur
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Forgotten Voices of The Great War
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Bruce I. Gudmundsson
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Stormtroop Tactics
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Imperial War Museum
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Official History, Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1918
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Sir Ian Hamilton
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His Final Despatch
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E.Y. Priestman
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“With a B-P Scout in Gallipoli”, some letters home from a subaltern in the 6th Battalion, York and Lancs.
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General James Jack
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His diary
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Robin Neillands
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The Great War Generals on The Western Front, 1914 - 18
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Philip Warner
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The Battle of Loos
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Lyn Macdonald
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1915, The Death of Innocence
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Last Post Association
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At the going down of the sun. A book giving a short description of the deaths of 365 soldiers who died in Flanders Fields. An excellent book.
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Lyn Macdonald
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To the Last Man. Spring 1918
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Trevor Pidgeon
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The Tanks at Flers. A two volume set of accounts, photos and maps. very extensive.
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David Fletcher (editor)
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Tanks and Trenches. First hand accounts of tank warfare in WW1
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F. Mitchell, MC
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“Tank Warfare”, the story of the Tanks in the Great War.
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Edmund Blunden
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“Undertones of War”, an excellent account of his experience as a young officer at the front.
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Military Operations, Egypt and Palestine.
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The Official History of this theatre.
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Battalion histories
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Thanks for the help of the Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham.
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Martin Middlebrook
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The Kaiser’s Battle
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Tim Coates uncovered editions
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The Dardanelles Commission 1914 - 16
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Philip J. Haythornthwaite
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Gallipoli 1915. Osprey Campaign series.
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H Cecil & PH Liddle joint editors
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Facing Armageddon. The First World War Experienced.
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The War Budget Illustrated
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A weekly periodical produced during the war. Cost 3 old pence.
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Henry Williamson’s novels; How dear is life’, ‘Love and the Loveless’ & ‘A test to destruction’.
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Novels based on his own time in the trenches. Do read them, excellent
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‘A Patriot’s Progress’, edited by Anne Williamson
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From the diaries of Henry Williamson.
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Sir Basil Liddell Hart
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History of the First World War
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Max Plowman
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A Subaltern on the Somme.
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Links
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http://www.pals.org.uk/
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Andrew Jackson’s excellent site for the Accrington Pals, especially the Battle of Serre. This was part of the July 1st, 1916, Somme offensive.
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www.1914-1918.net
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An excellent site on the Great War
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www.avrilwilliams.com
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Some shots of the preserved trenches and the cellar at Avril’s tea rooms in Auchonvillers
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www.battlefield-tours.com
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A battlefield tour site run by James Power.
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~http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86517080/Batt
lefieldArchaeology/ArkeologENG.html
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I took the photo of the Hooge crater from this site
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