Harrogate Terriers
by John Sheehan
"The 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War"
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Harrogate Terriers by John Sheehan
Details
War:
World War I
Perspective:
Infantry
Military Unit:
British Army
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Published Date:
2025
ISBN13:
9781399075350
Description
General Haig accused the Yorkshire Territorials of being ~too sleep" to fight well on the Somme, but the 1/5th Battalion proved him wrong. Mainly drawn from Harrogate, York, Ripon and the surrounding area, more than 700 lost their lives as they went on to fight successfully at Passchendaele and other key battles of the Great War. John Sheehan recounts individual stories of tragedy and heroism, as these part-time ~Saturday night soldiers" forged themselves into an effective fighting unit. Using original personal and military diaries, with hundreds of carefully selected newspaper extracts, letters and photographs, this book traces individual stories of tradesmen, apprentices, lawyers, musicians, sportsmen, brothers, husbands and fathers from Harrogate and the West Riding. As such, it characterises the experience of the British Infantryman in the Great War.
