Brooke's Battery
Philip Spinks
- Price: £6.95
- Publisher: Brewin Books
- ISBN: 9781858584225
- Availability: In Stock
In the 100th anniversary year of the
raising of Warwickshire’s first Royal Horse Artillery Battery, this short
history fills a gap in the county’s military past.
Raised by Lord Brooke of Warwick Castle,
here is the story of the formation, training and war service of an almost
forgotten unit – the first Territorial Artillery Battery to go to France in
1914.
The volunteer ‘Saturday Night Soldiers’ of
1/1 Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery were but a few of the tens of thousands
of Gunners who suffered the privations of the Western Front; facing the cold,
the rain, the mud, the squalor – and the enemy – with stoicism unlikely to be
seen again.
For nearly four and a half years the men served in France and Flanders, and later Germany, before finally returning safely to Warwickshire in mid-1919 to be met by their families, friends and old comrades.
| Details | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 80 |
| Dimensions | 240mm x 170mm |
| Illustrations | black & white |
