Retired Major General Grist has built on previous histories by utilising many personal reminiscences from the Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum.
A wide ranging war history of Gloucestershire's units.

Stand To! Journal of the Western Front Association

★★★★ When Rudyard Kipling wrote his history of the two Irish Guards battalions engaged in the Great Gar he had the advantage of being able to interview many of the survivors, and to cross question them over details. This added an immediacy, which coupled with his graphic penmanship made two volumes of trench incidents almost digestible, and certainly full of character. Robin Grist has not had this advantage. Nonetheless, by use of numerous eye-witness statements and careful research he has managed to make each chapter a useful and interesting account of the heroic and sometimes tragic doings of the regiments. The maps are very good, and the appendices including details of the sparking numbers of awards and regimental statistics are excellent.

This is not really a book to sit down and read from cover to cover, as so much of it deals with the crude low-level engagements, be they infantry or cavalry, Western Front, Gallipoli, Egypt, Mesopotamia or Macedonia. Finally, the regiments of Gloucestershire produced some fine Great War Poets, and this most interesting book has some moving examples.

A Gallant County? Certainly.

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