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AUTHOR: Atkinson, C
FORMAT: 515pp 4 Bw 89 maps Pb
Seventeen battalions of the Hampshire (they became "Royal" in 1946) served in France and Flanders, Gallipoli, Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, India, Aden, Persia and Russia. Three Victoria Crosses and 82 Battle Honours were awarded (the highest number awarded to any regiment in the Great War) and deaths totalled some 7,580. The whole history constitutes a chronological record of the war describing all those events and actions which involved one or more battalions of the regiment, beginning with Le Cateau in which the 1st Battalion (11th Brigade, 4th Division) took part. After Second Ypres come chapters on Gallipoli where the 2nd, 1/4th and 10th Battalions fought. Most of the action is, of course, on the Western Front, but the other theatres are not neglected.
Reprint of the 1952 original publication.
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