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F. W. Bewsher. The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918
The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
PORTRAITS
MAPS
CHAPTER I. MOBILISATION (By Major-General R. Bannatine-Allason, C.B.)
CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL IN FRANCE—FESTUBERT
CHAPTER III. THE PERIOD OF APPRENTICESHIP
CHAPTER IV. TRAINING AND REORGANISATION—THE LABYRINTH
CHAPTER V. THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME—HIGH WOOD
CHAPTER VI. ARMENTIÈRES AND HEBUTERNE
CHAPTER VII. THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE—BEAUMONT HAMEL
CHAPTER VIII. COURCELETTE
CHAPTER IX. THE BATTLE OF ARRAS
CHAPTER X. THE BATTLE OF ARRAS (Contd.)—ROEUX AND THE CHEMICAL WORKS
CHAPTER XI. THE THIRD BATTLE OF YPRES
CHAPTER XII. POELCAPPELLE
CHAPTER XIII. THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
CHAPTER XIV. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE
CHAPTER XV. THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE (Contd.)—THE BATTLE OF THE LYS
CHAPTER XVI. WITH THE FRENCH IN CHAMPAGNE
CHAPTER XVII. THE CAPTURE OF GREENLAND HILL
CHAPTER XVIII. THE OPERATIONS TOWARDS VALENCIENNES
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F. W. Bewsher
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The Highland Division during its first tour of duty in the line was thus employed in the particularly trying operation of consolidating a newly-won position. Few operations call for more resource and more tactical skill on the part of junior officers and N.C.O.’s, or for more detailed planning and arrangement on the part of commanders and staffs. Order has immediately to be evolved from chaos. Covered approaches are non-existent, and must be constructed before movement during daylight becomes possible; sniping with rifles and, in some cases, field-guns is constant; the protection afforded by barbed-wire entanglements is wanting; arrangements for sanitation and cooking have not been planned. In fact, the amount of work required to make the position defensible and habitable appears overwhelming.
To make confusion worse confounded, officers, runners, reliefs, ration parties, &c., as long as movement is restricted to the hours of darkness, find the greatest difficulty in acquiring a working knowledge of the geography of the defences.
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