The Hertfordshire Batteries, Royal Field Artillery: An Illustrated History, 1908-1920 - Softcover

J.D. Sainsbury

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948527048 ISBN 13: 9780948527043

Publisher: Hart Books, 1996

Synopsis

This is the second of four volumes that constitute the official history of all Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery units. Two batteries of field artillery were raised in Hertfordshire as part of the new Territorial Force in 1908. They were mobilised with the East Anglian Divisional Artillery in August 1914 and soon moved to Egypt, where they played a distinguished part in the battles of Gaza in 1917 and in the subsequent advance through Palestine to the Turkish border. Volume 2 includes useful details on the field artillery equipment and tactics of the period.

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About the Author:

Colonel J.D. Sainsbury was born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in 1938 and commissioned in the Royal Artillery during National Service, which he spent with a field regiment in Germany. On release from full-time service he joined the Bank of England, where he worked until taking early retirement in 1989. He then spent twenty years as a historical consultant and archivist in the Honours and Awards Branch of the Military Secretary's Department of the Ministry of Defence. As a Territorial Army officer he served in local field artillery units and in a variety of staff jobs, until retiring in 2000. He was appointed OBE (Military Division) in the 1997 New Year Honours. John Sainsbury's interest in military history goes back to his schooldays but gained real purpose when, on joining the Hertfordshire Yeomanry (by then a field regiment of the Royal Artillery) he discovered how little had been published on the units of the Auxiliary Forces raised in the county. Since his first book, Hertfordshire's Soldiers, was published in 1969, he has written a number of books on the various units raised in Hertfordshire since Napoleonic times, ten of which are now available through University of Hertfordshire Press. In recognition of his work in preserving and recording the history of military units raised in Hertfordshire he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1991.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hart Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0948527048
• ISBN 13: 9780948527043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 126