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Plumer of Messines.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : Arcole Publishing, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781787204584
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plumer of MessinesOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I-EARLY DAYS. REGIMENTAL LIFE -- CHAPTER II-MATABELE WAR, 1896 -- CHAPTER III-THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902, THE FIRST ARMY COUNCIL, 1904 -- CHAPTER IV-LIFE IN IRELAND. THE 5th DIVISION -- CHAPTER V-THE FIFTH CORPS -- CHAPTER VI-MY CHIEF AND HIS METHODS OF COMMAND -- CHAPTER VII-THE BATTLE OF MESSINES -- CHAPTER VIII-THE PART PLAYED BY THE SECOND ARMY IN THE PASSCHENDAELE OPERATIONS -- CHAPTER IX-FURTHER DETAILS OF THE PASSCHENDAELE OPERATIONS -- CHAPTER X-TO ITALY -- CHAPTER XI-RETURN TO THE YPRES SALIENT. THE SECOND ARMY HAS A HARD TIME. -- CHAPTER XIII-GOODBYE TO FLANDERS. THE ADVANCE TO THE RHINE -- CHAPTER XIII-HIS ADMINISTRATION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY -- CHAPTER XIV-MALTA -- CHAPTER XV-IMPRESSIONS BY BISHOP GWYNNE -- CHAPTER XVI-HIS VISIT TO CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER XVII-PALESTINE -- CHAPTER XVIII-HIS INTEREST IN CRICKET. PRESIDENT M.C.C. -- CHAPTER XIX-HIS LOVE OF ETON. THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL -- CHAPTER XX-STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS AND SENSE OF HUMOUR -- CHAPTER XXI-INNS OF COURT REGIMENT -- CHAPTER XXII-LORD PLUMER'S LAST MESSAGE TO THE ARMY -- SUMMARY -- APPENDIX-FAMILY RECORD. -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.
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Originally published in 1935, this is the memoir of Lord Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second Army during the First World War, and written by Sir Charles Harington Harington, who served as Major-General, General Staff, of the Second Army for a large period of the Great War in the defence of the Ypres Salient.

Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE (13 March 1857 - 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War. After commanding V Corps at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he took command of the Second Army in May 1915 and in June 1917 won an overwhelming victory over the German Army at the Battle of Messines, which started with the simultaneous explosion of a series of mines placed by the Royal Engineers' tunnelling companies beneath German lines, which created 19 large craters and was described as the loudest explosion in human history. He later served as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine and then as Governor of Malta before becoming High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1925 and retiring in 1928.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- MAPS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I-EARLY DAYS. REGIMENTAL LIFE -- CHAPTER II-MATABELE WAR, 1896 -- CHAPTER III-THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, 1899-1902, THE FIRST ARMY COUNCIL, 1904 -- CHAPTER IV-LIFE IN IRELAND. THE 5th DIVISION -- CHAPTER V-THE FIFTH CORPS -- CHAPTER VI-MY CHIEF AND HIS METHODS OF COMMAND -- CHAPTER VII-THE BATTLE OF MESSINES -- CHAPTER VIII-THE PART PLAYED BY THE SECOND ARMY IN THE PASSCHENDAELE OPERATIONS -- CHAPTER IX-FURTHER DETAILS OF THE PASSCHENDAELE OPERATIONS -- CHAPTER X-TO ITALY -- CHAPTER XI-RETURN TO THE YPRES SALIENT. THE SECOND ARMY HAS A HARD TIME. -- CHAPTER XIII-GOODBYE TO FLANDERS. THE ADVANCE TO THE RHINE -- CHAPTER XIII-HIS ADMINISTRATION OF OCCUPIED TERRITORY -- CHAPTER XIV-MALTA -- CHAPTER XV-IMPRESSIONS BY BISHOP GWYNNE -- CHAPTER XVI-HIS VISIT TO CONSTANTINOPLE -- CHAPTER XVII-PALESTINE -- CHAPTER XVIII-HIS INTEREST IN CRICKET. PRESIDENT M.C.C. -- CHAPTER XIX-HIS LOVE OF ETON. THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL -- CHAPTER XX-STORIES OF HIS KINDNESS AND SENSE OF HUMOUR -- CHAPTER XXI-INNS OF COURT REGIMENT -- CHAPTER XXII-LORD PLUMER'S LAST MESSAGE TO THE ARMY -- SUMMARY -- APPENDIX-FAMILY RECORD. -- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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