Life of An Irish Soldier
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Life of An Irish Soldier

Reminiscences of General Sir Alexander Godley G.C.B. K.C.M.G.

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eBook - ePub

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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Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781805230700

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. DEDICATION
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Maps
  6. Foreword
  7. Author’s Note
  8. CHAPTER I-Boyhood; School; Sandhurst
  9. CHAPTER II-Ireland
  10. CHAPTER III-Sheffield; Portsmouth; Aldershot
  11. CHAPTER IV-Rhodesian Campaign
  12. CHAPTER V-Mounted Infantry; Staff College
  13. CHAPTER VI-South African War; Mafeking
  14. CHAPTER VII-London; Aldershot
  15. CHAPTER VIII-Mounted Infantry; Longmoor; German Manœuvres
  16. CHAPTER IX-Staff-Aldershot
  17. CHAPTER X-India
  18. CHAPTER XI-Scotland; South America
  19. CHAPTER XII-Canada; U.S.A.; Australia
  20. CHAPTER XIII-New Zealand
  21. CHAPTER XIV-Great War; Egypt
  22. CHAPTER XV-Great War; Gallipoli
  23. CHAPTER XVI-Great War; Egypt again
  24. CHAPTER XVII-Great War; France; Messines; Passchendaele
  25. CHAPTER XVIII-Great War; Ypres; The Ardre; The Somme; Final Advance
  26. CHAPTER XIX-Mons; Germany
  27. CHAPTER XX-War Office
  28. CHAPTER XXI-British Army of the Rhine
  29. CHAPTER XXII-Southern Command; Salisbury
  30. CHAPTER XXIII-Gibraltar
  31. CHAPTER XXIV-Africa and Australasia again; China; Malaya