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THE WAR SERVICE OF THE 1/4 ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT (T.F.)
by
C. R. M. F. CRUTTWELL
Late Captain 1/4 Royal Berks. Regt., Fellow Of Hertford College, And Formerly Fellow Of All Souls College, Oxford
[Illustration: Colonel O. PEARCE-SEROCOLD, C.M.G., V.D. Commanding On Mobilization 5 Aug. 1914 To 14 Feb. 1916.]
Oxford Basil Blackwell MCMXXII
Oxford Fox, Jones & Co., Kemp Hall Press, High Street.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Preface.
Chapter I Mobilisation and training.
Chapter II First Days on Active Service.
Chapter III Holding the Line at 'Plugstreet'.
Chapter IV On the Move and in Corps Reserve.
Chapter V Relieving the French at Hebuterne.
Chapter VI Summer and Autumn in Artois.
Chapter VII Winter in the Trenches.
Chapter VIII The new Trench and the Raid.
Chapter IX Before the Battle.
Chapter X The July Fighting at Pozieres.
Chapter XI Rest and Battle.
Chapter XII Uneventful Days.
Chapter XIII In the Slough of Despond.
Chapter XIV The Winter and the German Retreat.
Chapter XV Ronssoy.
Chapter XVI Towards the Hindenburg Line.
Chapter XVII The Renewal of Trench Warfare.
Chapter XVIII The Third Battle of Ypres.
Chapter XIX Last Days in France and the Journey to Italy.
Chapter XX The Italian Winter.
Chapter XXI Mountain Warfare.
Chapter XXII The Last Summer.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regimen
- 2: The order for mobilisation was received
- 3: The battalion entrained for France
- 4: On April 2nd we marched to Steenvoorde
- 5: A small village called Romarin
- 6: We were on the left of the 145th
- 7: Should burst in the trees far behind on the Messines road
- 8: It was everywhere intersected by corduroy paths
- 9: The reserve Companies of the Brigade
- 10: And dawn comes very early in June
- 11: We arrived at Bailleul about 1 a
- 12: To a wretched hamlet called Houchin
- 13: Our ultimate destination was now the sector of Hebuterne
- 14: And the pleasant villa called Poste Cambronne
- 15: Together with the sides of the trench
- 16: We spent all our time at Hebuterne
- 17: If you walked south you passed the Puisieux road
- 18: It lies in the valley of the Authie River
- 19: Flew over Hebuterne to attack the station of Valenciennes
- 20: Five kilometres west of Fonquevillers
- 21: On this salient and on its approaches
- 22: He was succeeded by Major now Lieut
- 23: Hebuterne received a ration of several thousand shells
- 24: And the Divisional Variety Troupe
- 25: In the angle of the Bayencourt road
- 26: From Serre road to Trench Lassalle a week beforehand
- 27: Half to the huts in the park of Couin Chateau
- 28: Were placed in dugouts near Pimlico
- 29: Sargeant was no sooner extricated than he collected bombs
- 30: They had been summoned by Corpl
- 31: Sailly was full of camps and dumps
- 32: The 24th found the battalion back at Couin
- 33: They were resting from their attack on Ovillers
- 34: Over whose attacking frontage the patrol had gone
- 35: Wakeford was shot dead just as he reached his objective
- 36: Beazley was fortunate to escape with some severe bruises
- 37: The Brigade made a long two days' journey from Bouzincourt
- 38: And to secure a barrage commencing at 5
- 39: And saw that it was Captain Attride
- 40: ' The 143rd Brigade attacked about 5 p
- 41: And 50 wounded including 2nd Lieuts
- 42: Reprisals which she would be most reluctant to take
- 43: Then we revisited Souastre after thirteen months
- 44: About a mile behind Martinpuich
- 45: Captains Goolden and Challoner
- 46: Hamel was soon exchanged for Cappy
- 47: Hampshire and his men returned
- 48: Touch was obtained with the 8th Warwicks in Templeux village
- 49: The remainder cleared up Ronssoy
- 50: 9 inch shells were poured into Ronssoy
- 51: And as the attack on the left was disorganised by shell fire
- 52: Installed at Peronne disinfected the blankets
- 53: Was next door to our first resting place in Flanders
- 54: The Battalion crawled back to Dambre Camp
- 55: Advancing over the Steenbeek at zero
- 56: At noon one platoon moved forward to the right
- 57: And reassembled at Dambre Camp
- 58: The 144th Brigade attacked again on the 8th 9th October
- 59: And in the afternoon billeting orders arrived
- 60: Stores were purchased in Vicenza and Padua
- 61: And we turned our backs on the Montello for good
- 62: The most imposing of which was Asiago
- 63: The 1st 4th Oxfords and 1st 5th Gloucesters
- 64: Was to seize the front line before Asiago
- 65: And there had been no preliminary barrage
- 66: They pushed on at noon and entered Asiago
- 67: Reported that Monte Catz was still strongly held
- 68: During the 3rd the confusion among the Austrians was
- 69: 1 4th battalion royal berkshire regiment
- 70: The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regimen
- 71: The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regimen
- 72: While Serving With The Battalion
- 73: Italian silver medal for valour