10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OLD CONTEMPTIBLES»
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Old Contemptibles in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Old Contemptibles and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Old Contemptibles: The British Expeditionary Force, 1914
Highly respected military historian examines the British army's disastrous start to the First World War.
Jury and Sergeant Wiggins finally join Melrose at the Old Contemptibles pub, where they arrive at a solution that Jury detests, for no matter what he does, innocence will suffer.
Preface. On 19 August 1914 Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered Gen. von Kluck,
commanding the German First Army, to 'exterminate the treacherous English and
walk over General French's contemptible little Army'. When translated into
English the ...
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First Ypres 1914: The Graveyard of the
Old Contemptibles
History tells us that this was not to be the case. David Lomas chronicles the first of the trench-warfare battles, where lines that would remain almost static for the rest of the war were established.
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Building the
Old Contemptibles: British Military ...
Impressed with the tactical lessons of the Boer War, the British Army reformed its doctrine and training from 1899 to 1914, deploying a combat ready force, the "Old Contemptibles" of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1914.
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The British Army in World War I (1): The Western Front 1914-16
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY THE PLATES Barthorp, Michael, The Old
Contemptibles, Elite 24, Osprey Publishing (1989) Carrington, Charles E., Soldier
from the Wars Returning, Hutchinson, (1965) Chappell, Mike, British Battle
Insignia (1): ...
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Mons 1914: The BEF's Tactical Triumph
The Old Contemptibles (George Allen & Unwin. 1981) A photographic history of
the BEF from August to December 1914. This is a slim volume with a necessarily
truncated text and its real interest lies in the illustrations. Spears, Sir Edward ...
Chief Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard tangles with a despicable villain while investigating three apparently "natural deaths," and finds himself embroiled with an assortment of eccentric characters "RAINBOW'S END
Go on ! Pat me on the back and tell me to be a good boy and not to be frightened.
I'm coming to it at last: old Bob Halliday that's been through it from the beginning,
one o' the Old Contemptibles, come down to be mothered and hushaby-baby'd ...
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1914: Fight the Good Fight: Britain, the Army and the Coming ...
Intensely researched and convincingly argued, Allan Mallinson explores and explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer in ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OLD CONTEMPTIBLES»
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Old Contemptibles is used in the context of the following news items.
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Over a century after some of the first shots of the Great War were fired, travel through Belgium following the Old Contemptibles in their battles of ... «Easier, Jul 15»
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But in London I tend to use pubs in Camden; in Birmingham The Wellington, Old Joint Stock and Old Contemptibles; I stay out of town in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Flashback June 26
Major S.C. Clegg, prominent in business and community life here for a number of years, and one of the "Old Contemptibles" of the First Great ... «Brantford Expositor, Jun 15»
Leicester war hero Ernest Massey's medals go under the hammer at …
The three medals were primarily awarded to the Old Contemptibles (B.E.F.). and by convention all three medals are worn together and in the ... «Leicester Mercury, Jun 15»
The Stacks: A Son Finds His Father on Guadalcanal
... of Agincourt, the Spanish Tercios, the French Foreign Legion at Camerone, the Old Contemptibles of 1914, the Brigade of Guards at Dunkirk. «Daily Beast, Jun 15»
World Gin Day: 9 Birmingham gin bars and events
Bacchus, a Nicholson's pub (like The Old Contemptibles and The Shakespeare Inn in Summer Row), is dramatically decorated and squirrelled ... «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
Colmore Food Festival returns to Birmingham
... the return of some of the district's most well-established venues including Hotel du Vin, Opus at Cornwall Street and The Old Contemptibles. «Birmingham Post, Jun 15»
BT Openreach criticised over 'desecrated' Angus war memorial
One famous Newtyle resident, Alfred Anderson, was the last member of the British Expeditionary Force — the Old Contemptibles — and the ... «The Courier, Apr 15»
Branch of family goes back to horse base
I have his Army Service Medals including the 'Old Contemptibles' 1914 star. In any event, by 1916 he was stationed at the Shirehampton ... «Bristol Post, Mar 15»
Can you help identify the Old Contemptibles?
A MILITARY history project has made progress with identifying people in a photo depicting some of the first men from Keighley who fought in the First World War. «Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Feb 15»
