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Auckland Regiment 1914-1918: Being an Account of the Doings on Active Service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment
Author(s): O. E. Burton (Author)
- Publisher: Naval & Military Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 20 Jun. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 412 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847343996
- ISBN-13: 9781847343994
Book Description
A good general history of a regiment raised in one of New Zealands largest cities to take part in the Great War.The author – who won the Military Medal and the French Medaille DHonneur for his military exploits, – has written a fluent and readable account. The three battalions of the Auckland Regiment trained in Egypt for the coming Gallipoli campaign in 1915. They assembled at Lemnos, took part in the landing and fighting at Cape Helles and Sari Bair, sustaining severe losses, and were then evacuated back to Egypt. They were first stationed at Armentieres, before seeing action on the Somme in 1916; wintering near Ploegsteert Wood, and then being deployed for the Battle of Messines in June 1917.
