The First Buckinghamshire Battalion

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. The First Buckinghamshire Battalion: its war story is a vivid regimental history of the First World War, introduced by Major-General Sir Robert Fanshawe's tribute to a unit he praises for discipline, initiative, and fighting spirit. He highlights defining actions at the Somme, Tombois Farm, and St. Julien, and the book follows that reputation across France, Italy, and the final Allied advance of November 1918, supported by maps, photographs, appendices, orders, rolls, and honors. The story begins in 1915, when months of training in England give way to the long-awaited order to embark for France. From Aylesbury, Cosham, Swindon, and Chelmsford, the men grow into a close-knit battalion before facing the shock of the front: cold troop-trains, exhausting marches, trenches, sniping, shellfire, and their first mine explosion. In Ploegsteert Wood, St. Yves, and Hébuterne, trench life becomes a grim routine of mud, danger, and hard-won resilience. Later, the battalion endures the harsh mountain warfare of the Asiago Plateau, where supply, weather, and altitude test men and horses alike, before meeting Austrian counterattacks, illness, and the brutal opening of a major offensive.