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Brig E.A. James, British Regiments 1914–18, London: Samson Books, 1978/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. Caroline Scott, The Manchester Bantams, The Story of a Pals Battalion and a City at War: 23rd (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (8th City) , Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78346-389-3.
DNaval & Military Press Ltd. ISBN ... History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series, Official Campaign History. Naval & Military Press.
The 12th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment, was a unit of 'Kitchener's Army' formed immediately after the outbreak of the First World War.It saw action in the Ypres Salient in 1915–16, on the Somme in 1916, including actions at Mametz Wood and the Battle of Delville Wood, and in the Arras Offensive.
In 2005 Anova Books bought Conway Maritime Press. Around this time the publisher was renamed Conway Publishing. Whilst still committed to producing specialist maritime books, Conway broadened their catalogue to incorporate general, military and aviation history, exploration, as well as railway and scale modelling (with Hornby and Airfix), amongst other related topics.
The action off Lerwick (/ ˈ l ɛ r ɪ k /, "Lerrick") was a naval engagement on 17 October 1917 fought in the North Sea during the First World War.The German light, minelaying cruisers SMS Brummer and Bremse attacked a westbound convoy of twelve colliers and other merchant ships and their escorts, part of the regular Scandinavian convoy.
The Welsh Horse Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army that served in the First World War.The regiment was raised shortly after the outbreak of the war. Initially it served in East Anglia on anti-invasion duties, before being dismounted in 1915 and sent to take part in the Gallipoli
Republished Imperial War Museum-Naval and Military Press, pbk 2009 [89] Macpherson, Sir W. G. (1923). Medical Services General History: The Medical Services on the Western Front and during the Operations in France and Belgium in 1914 and 1915. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Committee of Imperial Defence ...
The Action of 16 March 1917 was a naval engagement in which the British armed boarding steamer SS Dundee and HMS Achilles, a Warrior-class armoured cruiser, fought the German auxiliary cruiser SMS Leopard, which sank with the loss of all 319 hands and six men of a British boarding party.