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.
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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.