Come on Highlanders!
Subtitle: Glasgow Territorials in the Great War
By: Alec Weir
Publisher: History
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780752452012
Subjects: History; World War, 1914-1918; Regimental histories; Campaigns; Military campaigns; Great Britain. Army. Highland Light Infantry. Battalion, 9th; Great Britain
Description: Already possessors of a proud history by the outbreak of the First World War, the men of 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry, were right at the heart of the cataclysmic events that unfolded on the Western Front. One of the first Territorial units to be rushed to France in 1914, they participated in almost all the major British battles - Festubert, Neuve-Chapelle and Loos in 1915, the Somme in 1916, Arras and Ypres in 1917. They were closely involved in opposing the great German offensive of spring 1918, and in the big Allied push which culminated in victory later that year. Altogether, around 4,500 men served with the battalion in the First World War. By 1919, over 1,200 had died and at least double that number had been wounded. Despite this the ethos of the battalion, built up over half a century of peace and many months of warfare, survived. Alec Weir's accessible, informal style, employing many first-hand accounts, and his rigorous research combine here to produce a fascinating and detailed account of how ordinary men from all walks of life confronted and mastered the hellish conditions of trench warfare.
Notes: Originally published: Stroud: Sutton, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction: Piecing it all together; title: 1. Highland Origins; title: 2. 1914: August to October; title: An End and a Beginning; title: 3. 1914: November to December; title: Much-needed Reinforcements; title: 4. 1915: January to March; title: Neuve-Chapelle; title: Nearly; title: 5. 1915: April to June; title: Festubert; title: 6. 1915: July to September; title: Loos; title: 7. 1915: October to December; title: Second Winter; title: 8. 1916: January to March; title: Lines of Communication; title: 9. 1916: April to June; title: Lines of Communication then Back to the Trenches; title: 10. 1916: July to September; title: The Somme; title: 11. 1916: October to December; title: Still the Somme; title: 12. 1917: January to March; title: Even More of the Somme; title: 13. 1917: April to June; title: Arras; title: 14. 1917: July to September; title: The Belgian Coast, then Ypres; title: 15. 1917: October to December; title: Messines and Passchendaele; title: 16. 1918: January to March; title: Still Passchendaele; title: 17. 1918: April to June; title: Neuve-Eglise; title: 18. 1918: July to September; title: The St-Quentin Canal; title: 19. 1918: October to December; title: The Selle and the Sambre; title: 20. 1919; title: Guard Duties; title: 21. Retrospect.