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Shield and Protect

An Illustrated History of the Essex Yeomanry
  • ISBN-13: 9781804200506
  • Publisher: FONTHILL
    Imprint: FONTHILL
  • By Stephen Keoghane
  • Price: AUD $103.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/09/2024
  • Format: Hardback (248.00mm X 172.00mm) 352 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Military history [HBW]
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Volunteer yeomanry cavalry came into existence in Essex in the late 1700s, and despite intermittent disbandment, the Essex Yeomanry went on to serve with distinction in both world wars. The regimental, county and national archives have revealed an enormous amount of unseen primary source material that has been used to tell the soldiers story from the Edwardian era to the horrors of trench warfare in the First World War, including a rare example of a mounted charge. The story continues through the Second World War, featuring first-hand accounts of battles in the Western Desert, Italy, Burma, Normandy and Nazi Germany. The Essex yeoman was present in virtually every major engagement in both world wars. This book, written with the full co-operation of the Essex Yeomanry Association and illustrated with a vast array of unpublished photographs, tells his story.

Stephen Keoghane joined the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in 1994 and served for twenty-two years as the regimental medical officer, soldiering in Europe, the USA and Afghanistan. He left the yeomanry as a lieutenant-colonel in 2016. As a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a consultant surgeon in the NHS, he has been published extensively in scientific journals. In recent years he has diversified into writing British military history and is now a regular contributor to a variety of well-known history magazines. Shield and Protect is his third book with Fonthill Media. He is married and lives in rural Suffolk.

Foreword; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The First 100 Years of the Yeomanry in Essex; 2 The Essex Imperial Yeomanry; 3 Mobilisation and the First Year in France; 4 Frezenberg Ridge to Loos; 5 The Horror of Monchy-le-Preux; 6 The Inter-war Years and Mobilisation; 7 From Snow to the Desert; 8 Tobruk; 9 The Pyramids to Austria; 10 The Third Enemy; 11 The Early Days of 147th (Essex Yeomanry) Regiment RHA; 12 Sextons on the Beach; 13 The Advance through Normandy; 14 The End is in Sight; 15 191st (Herts and Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery; Maps; Appendix; Endnotes; Bibliography.

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