Title: Best Love to All: The Letters And Diaries Of Captain Eric Rigby-Jones, Mc And Bar And His Experiences As A Young Officer With The Liverpool Pals On The Western Front In 1917 And 1918
Publisher: Helion and Company
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1911512056
ISBN 13: 9781911512059
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 730 grams

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Best Love to All is an account of the experiences of the author's grandfather as a young officer on the Western Front with the Liverpool Pals. Based on his unpublished letters and diaries, it covers his participation in the battles of Arras and Ypres in 1917, with the Fifth and Second Armies during the great German Spring Offensive of 1918, and in Brussels after the armistice. Eric Rigby-Jones is one of the many unsung heroes of the war and, were it not for his own account, his bravery would now be forgotten. He was awarded the Military Cross and Bar for his actions on the first and last days of the Spring Offensive. Invalided home, he was presented with his medals by the King at Buckingham Palace a week after his 21st birthday. Eric would go on to become a leading industrialist in Ireland after the war, founding his company, Irish Ropes, in the disused British cavalry barracks in Newbridge, Co Kildare in 1933. The book is well-researched and draws heavily on battalion war diaries and other memoirs. Unlike many books based on personal diaries it sets Eric’s own detailed, vivid, and often humorous accounts within their broader military, political and social context, and highlights the many close ties that bound the officers and men of the Liverpool Pals together. It also introduces a wide range of characters including Lord Derby, the Secretary of State of War and ‘King of Lancashire’, who was instrumental in creating the Pals; his younger brother, Brigadier Stanley, who commanded them; Johnny Douglas, the England cricket captain, who was Eric’s battalion commander; Brigadier Robert White, who sent Eric on a suicide mission in March 1918 and who had been tried and jailed for his part in the Jameson Raid in 1895; and Aidan Chavasse, the youngest son of the Bishop of Liverpool and brother of the double VC-winner, Noel Chavasse, who was killed during a Pals’ trench raid at Ypres. The book is aimed at the general reader and will appeal in particular to those who are interested in the history of Liverpool and the Pals battalions and in Eric’s later career. However it also includes new details and perspectives, as in Eric’s own account of the German spring offensive, which will make it of interest to the specialist reader. The book is well-illustrated and includes numerous photographs and documents from the author’s family albums as well as his own photographs of the battlefields where his grandfather fought.

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John Rigby-Jones was educated at Sherborne School and rowed and read classics at Oriel College, Oxford. After qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1980 he worked in the private healthcare sector for over 30 years before retiring in 2015. It was only when his father died in 2006 that he rediscovered his grandfather’s letters and diaries from the First World War which he had first read as a student and which he assumed had subsequently been lost. He had always been intrigued by them and, since his father’s death, has spent much of his spare time trying to find out more about his grandfather, who died before he was born, and visiting the battlefields where he fought. John is now working on a second book about his grandfather’s life after the war.

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