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By Caroline Scott

ISBN-10: 1783463899

ISBN-13: 9781783463893

In could 1916 significant Eustace Lockhart Maxwell, a former Indian cavalry officer, used to be given command of an infantry battalion in France. After forty eight hours along with his new unit, Maxwell wrote to his relatives: ‘The awesome attribute of these who belong to it kind of feels to be their amazing self-complacency! Esprit de corps is an exceptional factor, however the pride with which they regard themselves, their battalion, its inner economic system, its gallantry, its self-discipline, its every little thing else, is nearly indecent! If on the finish of a month my opinion of them is part nearly as good as their very own, I shall imagine myself uncommonly lucky.’ This was once the twenty third Manchester ‘Bantam’ Battalion, a unit fullyyt composed of guys of a peak among 5ft and 5ft 3”, and its esprit de corps used to be approximately to be seriously confirmed.

The ‘Bantams’ left colourful, characterful, relocating and sometimes fun files in their studies. utilizing a wealth of formerly unpublished resources, this publication follows the Manchester males via their education, their stories of the Somme and the 3rd Ypres crusade, to Houthulst wooded area the place, in October 1917, the Battalion used to be ‘practically annihilated’.

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