CHAPTER IPAGEFormation of the Battalion—The Depot—Blackpool—Canterbury—Margate—Upstreet Camp—Canterbury—Gore Street Camp1CHAPTER IIPreparation for Overseas—Bourley Camp—Inkerman Barracks, Woking17CHAPTER IIIOverseas—Strazeele—Fleurbaix—Bac St. Maur—Rue du Bois—Rue Marle—Rue Dormoire30CHAPTER IVArmentières up to Gas Attack68CHAPTER VFrom Gas Attack to St. Hilaire—Passchendaele (First Time)—Louches126CHAPTER VIPasschendaele (Second Time)—Armentières—St. Hilaire (Second Time)—Arrewage—Fleurbaix148CHAPTER VIIMerville—Period in Reserve—Gommecourt—Fampoux172CHAPTER VIIIBattle of Cambrai204CHAPTER IXRuitz—Lille—Froyennes231CHAPTER XArmistice—Lille—Arras—Finale252APPENDICESAPPENDIX IBrief Notes on Specialists269APPENDIX IIRoll of Commanding Officers, Seconds in Command, Adjutants, and QuartermastersRolls of Company Commanders (Overseas) and Warrant Officers (Overseas)281APPENDIX IIINominal Roll and Record of Service of all Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men286Index of Persons and Principal Places361ILLUSTRATIONSLieut.-Colonel W. A. L. Fletcher, D.S.O.FrontispieceFacing pageBattalion Cap Badge, Title, and Distinguishing Patch1Colonel G. A. Wilson, V.D.16The Battalion—Blackpool, 191433Group—Canterbury, 191633The Officers—Margate, 191548The King's Inspection, Review Ground, Laffan's Plain, 191665The Officers—Woking, February, 191780Sergeants' Mess—Woking, February, 191797The Battalion—Woking, February, 1917104Rue de Lille, Armentières112Houplines Road, looking towards Armentières129Boche Front Line opposite Left Sector, Houplines. Frelinghien in Background, and River Lys in Flood129Houplines—British and German Trenches on Left Company's Front. River Lys, Hobbs and Edmeads Farms. Aeroplane Photo dated 1/1/18144The Pont Ballot Salient Houplines. British and German Trench on Right and Right Centre Companies' Front. Aeroplane Photo dated 28/12/17144The Trail to Passchendaele161Near Langemarck161Lieut.-Colonel Hon. N. C. Gathorne-Hardy, D.S.O.176Gommecourt Park193General View of Fampoux193Mœuvres, Inchy and Canal du Nord. Oblique Aeroplane Photograph208Quéant225Inchy225Pronville225"Cheerio"232The Canal du Nord240Canal de L'Escaut near Cambrai240The Cambrai—Bapaume Road, near Fontaine Notre Dâme240Approach to Cambrai—Rifle Range in Foreground. Photographed by Aeroplane, 1/10/18248Hôtel de Ville, Arras257Lieut.-Colonel C. L. Macdonald, D.S.O.264Lieut.-Colonel C. C. Stapledon264MAPSFacing pageBoutillerie Sector40Rue Du Bois Sector58Houplines72Pont Ballot Salient Houplines106In Front of Langemarck140Houthulst Forest Sector150Site of Raid, March, 1918170Gommecourt188Fampoux200The Capture of Riencourt210The Road to Cambrai216Operations 21-23 October, 1918, North of Tournai242Hazebrouck, 5aIn Pocket at endLens 11Cambrai AreaLille and Tournai
Battalion Cap Badge, Title, and Distinguishing Patch
Battalion Cap Badge, Title, and Distinguishing Patch
Battalion Cap Badge, Title, and Distinguishing Patch
THE HISTORYOF THE2/6th (Rifle) Bn. "THE KING'S"(Liverpool Regiment)