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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 926
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The Chemist and Druggist
Author: Leeds Pals
Author: Laurie MilnerPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473815916
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
The British Army’s losses on the opening day of the Battle of the Somme - 1 July 1916 - amounted to some 57,000 men killed, wounded or missing. Few units, however, suffered as terribly as the famous ‘Pals’ battalions, raised from volunteers who had flocked to answer Lord Kitchener’s ‘Call to Arms’. In the North of England particularly, whole cities and towns went into mourning as news of that awful first day’s casualties came through. What is less well-known is that some of these battalions were brought up to strength with reinforcements - often from the cities in which they had been raised - and sent back into action again and again This is the story of one such battalion, the Leeds Pals, which by the war’s end in 1918, was described as having been ‘four times wiped out but fighting to the end’. It is a story which traces, in great and fascinating detail, the raising and training of the battalion in and around Leeds, their service in Egypt before being sent to France in December 1915, their heavy losses in their baptism of fire on the Somme, 1916, in the Battle of Arras a year later, and during the German offensives of March and April 1918. Based upon the accounts of survivors, private diaries, letters and papers, official archives, contemporary newspaper accounts, and a wealth of unpublished photographs, it is a story of patriotism, enthusiasm, humor, and great courage. Ultimately, however, it is a tale of great tragedy, for though the Leeds Pals took part in the final advance to victory, their three years in France had cost them 733 men killed, 1,861 wounded and 776 missing or captured.
Chartered Municipal Engineer
Author: The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial, and Miscellaneous History of Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Otley, and the Manufacturing District of Yorkshire
Author: Edward ParsonsPublisher:
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Category : Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial, and Miscellaneous History of Leeds, Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Otley
Author: Edward ParsonsPublisher:
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Category : Bradford (West Yorkshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The Railways of Bradford and Leeds
Author: Peter WallerPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526773430
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
It was to the south-west of Leeds that one of the key lines in the development of Britain’s railway network – the Middleton Railway – established the principle of seeking parliamentary sanction for the construction of a new form of transport. Five decades later in the early nineteenth century it was again the Middleton Railway that was at the forefront of the use of steam – rather than animal – power to move coal from colliery to market. From the early 1830s through until the early years of the twentieth century the local railway network continued to expand; indeed, if it had not been for the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 the area would have played host to one of the last first-generation main lines to be constructed with the Midland Railway planning – and partially constructing – a new main line north from Royston. In the event the line was never completed, consigning Bradford to be served by no more than glorified branch lines. Providing a largely illustrated account to the history of the railway development of the area, the book includes a fascinating selection of illustrations that focus on the evolution of the network in the almost eighty years since the end of the Second World War.
Yorkshire Notes and Queries
Author: The biographia Leodiensis; or, Biographical sketches of the worthies of Leeds and neighbourhood. [With]
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Author: Richard Vickerman TaylorPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Musical Times and Singing Class Circular
Author: St. Nicholas
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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