WELSH AT WAR: Through Mud to Victory

Welsh troops fought with great courage in every theatre of war - the Western Front, Aden, China, Gallipoli, Egypt, India, Italy, Salonika and in Palestine, as well as suffering casualties during these campaigns, many men gain recognition for acts of gallantry. The book chronicles the events and battles they took part in together with stories of many individual casualties and compelling photographs of the men and their last resting places. The book records the stories of the Welsh troops involved in the Third Battalion of Ypres, from the Welsh Battalions of the 19th (Western) Division at Messines Ridge, through the storming of the Pilckem Ridge by the 38th (Welsh) Division and the Guards Division, and the Welsh troops who fought in the final offensives at Passchendaele Ridge. The actions of Welsh troops during the Battle of Cambrai carry through to the final winter of the war and the volume records the suffering of Welsh troops during the desperate German Kaiserschlacht offensives of the spring of 1918, and carries through the summer of 1918 when the 38th (Welsh) Division moved back to the Somme, to the actions of Welsh troops during the 100 Days Offensive that finally ended the First World War. The volume covers the stories of the final battles in Italy, Salonika and Palestine which saw Welsh troops play a large role. The units cover include regular regiments the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers, Welsh Regiment and Welsh Guards, as well as the Territorial Monmouthshire Regiment, the Yeomanry Regiments - the Denbighshire Hussars, Pembroke Yeomanry, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, Glamorgan Yeomanry and Welsh Horse Yeomanry - and their amalgamation into service battalions for the regular regiments during 1917. A heavyweight Pen & Sword publication packed with archive illustrations reproduced as best as possible and maps. 328pp.