Cover image for Salient points four : Ypres sector 1914-1918 / by Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith.
TITLE:
Salient points four : Ypres sector 1914-1918 / by Tony Spagnoly and Ted Smith.
Publication Date:
2004, 1999
Publication Information:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Leo Cooper,
Physical Description:
146 p. ; ill., maps.
Additional Contributors:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780850529326