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The full title of this mammoth work, that was first published in 1921 in a very limited edition is "REPORTS BY THE JOINT WAR COMMITTEE AND THE JOINT WAR FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY AND THE ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM IN ENGLAND ON VOLUNTARY AID RENDERED TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED AT HOME AND ABROAD AND TO BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR 1914-1919"It is the most comprehensive, single-volume record of the Red Cross and its commitment in the First World War.Members of the British Red Cross and the Order of St John were organised into Voluntary Aid Detachments (the term VAD later came to be used for an individual member as well as a detachment). All members were trained in first aid and others trained in nursing, cookery and hygiene and sanitation. Throughout the war VADs worked in hospitals, convalescent homes, rest stations, packing centres, medical supply depots and work parties. The Joint War Committee organised the volunteers alongside technical and professional staff. The Committee also supplied the machinery and mechanisms to provide these services in Britain and in the conflict areas of Europe, the Middle East, Russia and East Africa.The Joint War Committee was the first to supply motorised ambulances to the battlefields. The first convoy arrived in France in September 1914 and proved much more effective in the war terrain than the horse-drawn ambulances used in previous conflicts.Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on Voluntary Aid rendered to the Sick and Wounded at Home and Abroad and to British Prisoners of War, 1914-1919. Like its title this really is a huge book on our beloved Red Cross and St. John''s in the war. Apart from "how to apply a triangular bandage", this book tells you just about everything you want to know; or perhaps didn''t even want to know, about those organisations during the First World War.Its 823 pages are crammed with answers to more questions than you could ever want to pose. Mundane subjects like management, finance and stores are covered. So too is the minutia of insuring and transporting vehicles, including X-Ray and bacteriological motor laboratory cars, to France. The contents of the latter really have to be read to be believed. Ambulances and related statistics are of course described in great detail. For example 7,250,286 cases of sick and wounded (often the same man twice) were carried by the Department in France and Belgium. But much more important information is given as well. The work of the Voluntary Aid Department is described. So too are some hospitals and convalescent homes in Britain. Indeed appendices list hundreds of such places and their donors up and down the country. Various ailments are covered. The work of the organisations in the various theatres of war is explained in depth including many of the base hospitals they ran. This is not a book listing individual case studies nor does it catalogue wounded or missing men by name. There are other books for that. What is does do however is give a background the invaluable work carried out in the name of humanity by those wonderful organisations: the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John in England. If you want to know the part they played in winning the war; this is the book for you.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

This is a brisk account, compiled in 1923, eight years after the events it narrates, of the doings of the 1st and 2nd (Regular) battalions of the ''Glorious Glosters'' in the opening weeks of the Great War. Flung into France as part of the BEF in August 1914, the Regiment passed through the furnace of some of the fiercest fighting during those chaotic weeks, including the Retreat from Mons and the First abttle of Ypres, wheh the German avance was finally stemmed and held. Compiled from the recollections of those who survived, this is a valuable account of the proud fighting record of the old regular army that was practically destroyed in the fighting narrated here.

Described by its author as ''a labour of love'' this is an history of the 9th Territorial Battalion of the King''s (Liverpool Regiment.) First raised in 1859, the Battalion embarked for France to fill holes torn in the Regular Army in 1914: they sustained their first casualties at Neuve Chapelle the following month. Thereafter the Battalion was in action at Aubers Ridge, Loos, the Somme, and Passchendaele. The text is accompanied by a list of Battalion Honours and awards.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

List of wounded and missing British, Australian, Canadian, S African personnel in all theatres of war about whom enquiries have been made; It also contains enquiries for details of death and burial of all those listed as killed. The names are grouped into corps/regiments and in the case of infantry there is, wherever available, information as to which battalion, company and platoon the casualty belonged to. There is similarly unit identification for Corps and Services, such as brigade and battery for Royal Artillery, field company for Royal Engineers. Regiments and Corps are listed alphabetically and there is an index for them.The original of this facsimile reprint is held by the Department of Printed Books ,The Imperial War Museum. Who hold the largest collection of these titles known to exist.

Regimental history of the Welch Regiment - one of the proudest and oldest formations in the British Army - is divided into two parts. The first section details the history of the Regiment from its origins as the Regiment of Invalids which became the 41st Regiment of Foot in the 18th century, down to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. It details its service in the West Indies during the seven Years'' War; action on Corsica and Toulon in the French Revolutionary War and its duties as a Marine Regiment serving in some of the greatest sea battles of the age, including the Glorious First of June; the Battle of the Saints and the Battle of St Vincent with Admirals Nelson and Jervis. In the 19th century, the Welch served in India; against America in the War of 1812; the Waterloo campaign; the Afghan wars and the Crimean and Boer Wars.

Members of Presbyterian Church, (24,000 Names,) arranged under congregation, who were serving with units from Britain and its empire. The principle information given for each person, whereas being similar to Soldiers Died in the Great War, quite often contains additional facts, and elaboration on how killed or wounded etc. For example, the entry''s,Wounded, Gassed, Wounded and Prisoner, Lost Leg, Twice Wounded, Died Prisoner of War, Accidentally Killed, Died in Hospital, have been noticed. Details of war medal entitlement and other odd facts frequently occur, Includes Women and many who survived the war.

This 1911 manual on transporting troops by rail was reprinted with amendments after the outbreak of war in 1914. War by rail timetable - when vast numbers of men were moved by rail - was a vital part of the opening weeks of the war. The manual covers the general duties of railway transport personnel; the entraining and detraining of troops; the movement of stock supplies and animals; ambulance trains; armoured trains; the capacity of rolling stock and co-operation with and supervision of civilian railway personnel. It provides a very detailed picture of the organisation of railway traffic in wartime.

This 1917 manual of musketry training is designed to instruct all infantry ranks in the use and care of their rifles, even under the gruelling battle conditions of the western front in the fourth year of the Great War. It is also aimed at instructing Commanding officers to make the best use of their men''s firepower under all conditions. There are chapters on the care and maintenance of arms; on visual training and distance judging; fire discipline and range firing; and section, platoon and company training.

The author of this unusual Great War memoir, R. A. Lloyd, was an Irish-born working-class man with ambitions - later fulfilled - to become a teacher. He enlisted in the 1st Battalion, the Life Guards in 1911 and by the time the Great War broke out was a Corporal of Horse. The memoir has great value as a portrait of the class conscious life in one of the British Army''s traditionally elite cavalry regiments. There are scenes - familiar to anyone who has seen the hit play ''War Horse'' - of a Life Guard''s life both in barracks at Knightsbridge, London and behind the trench lines of the Western front. The author witnesses the aftermath of the first gas attack near Ypres in 1915 and many other scenes - both sparklingly funny and sombrely sad - of the war. A fascinating period piece.

Britain''s Fourth Army, under Gen. Sir Henry Rawlinson, was the force that bore much of the brunt of the campaign that this official history calls ''the Hundred Days'' - the great counter attack beginning on August 8th 1918 which finally forced the German command to sue for the Armistice that came into effect on November 11th, ending the Great War in the west. Germany''s commander Gen. Paul von Hindenburg called August 8th ''the black day of the German army in this war'' and it was indeed the beginning of the end. The high tide of Ludendorff''s Spring Offensives had been halted just before the vital cathedral city and road and rail junction of Amiens, and on August 8th, spearheaded by Australian troops and a strong force of tanks, the Allies hit back. New tactics had at last been learned after the futile offensives of 1915,1916, and 1917, and the Allied troops moved forward under the cover of ''creeping barrages'' in small, fast-moving groups tasked to achievable ''bite and hold'' operations. When resistance stiffened the attack would be broken off and renewed on another part of the line. By such means the seemingly impregnable Hindenburg Line - which made use of canals and tunnels to form a mighty defence barrier - was rapidly broken and the offensive passed into the open country to the east. The final battles fought by the Fourth Army early in November were in near Le Cateau, ironically the site of the battle in 1914 that had begun the war. This history, written by an officer on Fourth Army staff, gives the full story of the campaign, accompanied by many photographs, a separate volume of maps and excellently drawn battlefield panoramas. There are also appendices on German prisoners taken; battlefield casualties; orders of battle; ammunition expended; and accounts of VCs won.