
Life of An Irish Soldier
Reminiscences of General Sir Alexander Godley G.C.B. K.C.M.G.
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- English
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Life of An Irish Soldier
Reminiscences of General Sir Alexander Godley G.C.B. K.C.M.G.
About this book
The memoirs of General Sir Alexander Godley, whose military career spanned five decades at the end of the 19th Century and in to the firestorm of the First World War at Gallipoli and the Western Front."General Sir Alexander John Godley, GCB, KCMG (4 February 1867–6 March 1957) was a senior British Army officer. He is best known for his role as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and II Anzac Corps during the First World War.Born in Gillingham, Kent, in England, Godley joined the British Army in 1886. He fought in the Boer War and afterwards served in a number of staff positions in England. In 1910 he went to New Zealand as Commandant of the New Zealand Military Forces. Promoted to temporary major general, he reorganised the country's military establishment. Following the outbreak of the First World War, the New Zealand government appointed him as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, which he led for the duration of the war."-Wiki
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- List of Illustrations
- Maps
- Foreword
- Author’s Note
- CHAPTER I-Boyhood; School; Sandhurst
- CHAPTER II-Ireland
- CHAPTER III-Sheffield; Portsmouth; Aldershot
- CHAPTER IV-Rhodesian Campaign
- CHAPTER V-Mounted Infantry; Staff College
- CHAPTER VI-South African War; Mafeking
- CHAPTER VII-London; Aldershot
- CHAPTER VIII-Mounted Infantry; Longmoor; German Manœuvres
- CHAPTER IX-Staff-Aldershot
- CHAPTER X-India
- CHAPTER XI-Scotland; South America
- CHAPTER XII-Canada; U.S.A.; Australia
- CHAPTER XIII-New Zealand
- CHAPTER XIV-Great War; Egypt
- CHAPTER XV-Great War; Gallipoli
- CHAPTER XVI-Great War; Egypt again
- CHAPTER XVII-Great War; France; Messines; Passchendaele
- CHAPTER XVIII-Great War; Ypres; The Ardre; The Somme; Final Advance
- CHAPTER XIX-Mons; Germany
- CHAPTER XX-War Office
- CHAPTER XXI-British Army of the Rhine
- CHAPTER XXII-Southern Command; Salisbury
- CHAPTER XXIII-Gibraltar
- CHAPTER XXIV-Africa and Australasia again; China; Malaya