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In 1915, Private Roy Ramsay, freshly trained at a camp near Brisbane, set sail from Australia for the Middle East with the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance. He served in Egypt and on hospital ships in the Dardanelles evacuating a mounting number of sick and wounded.

Serving with the 1st Division 3rd Field Ambulance on the Western Front, he went through Pozieres and other major set-piece battles of trench warfare.


Contents:

Editor's Note - Introduction - More meat for the Germans - The Alluring East - The War in the Peninsula - A Disgrace medical debacle - A well organized operation - France at last - The Pozieres Stunt - The Fromelles disaster - News from Sinai - Foul conditions at Flers - First Bullecourt and the German response - Lagnicourt and Blighty - Back to France and a new opportunity - Rest, recreation and return - The German offensive - The Australian Counter attack - The first battle of Villiers-Bretonneux - hazebrouck and Villiers Bretonneux Again - God with us? -  Peaceful Penetration - Some hope amid the horrors - Victory at Le Hamel - The tide turns - The beginning of the end - The irresistible force - The Immovable object? - 'Gay Paree' and Peace - Homeward bound - Postscript - Life of a returned soldier - Glossary and Abbreviations - First AIF orders of Battle - Note on sources - Bibliography - Index.

 
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SKU:WW1 Books
Quantity:- out of stock -
Author/s: Roy Ramsay, Roy Ramsay (ed)
Book Size(cm): 22 x 15
Condition: NEW
Format: Softcover
Pages: 272
Printing &/or Publishing Information: Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd.
Printing Year: 2005 - 1st Edition
ISBN: 1-877058-29-7
Weight:0.60 kg
Price:$ 24.95
 

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