Machine Gunner 1914-1918

by Crutchley, C. E.

• ISBN13: 9781844153596
• ISBN10: 1844153592
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-31
• Publisher: Pen & Sword

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(2)
Preface	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(4)
A 1913 Terrier Machine-Gunner Remembers	19	(4)
A Christmas Day to remember
First spell of front line duty
The second battle of Ypres
The Defence of the Suez Canal	23	(4)
The Turks attack
Gallipoli	27	(11)
The Gallipoli landings
The battle of Krithia
Suvla Bay
Mustafa Kemal
Massacre at the farm
On the Western Front	38	(37)
Christmas 1915
Reveille with a difference
Relieving the Gurkhas
The Somme Offensive of 1916
Memories of the Somme
High Wood
The first machine-gun barrage
Carnoy Valley
The sick parade and Number 9
With 142 Machine Gun Company
The shelf
In the line
With 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps	75	(56)
Warlencourt
Corporal Monty Watson
The Durhams' Crosses
Brave deeds and humour
With 126 Machine Gun Company
The Battle of Arras
With the 3rd Machine Gun Squadron (Cavalry)
With the 10th Machine Gun Company
Battle of Messines Ridge
The Dunes disaster
Daily Routine on the Somme (1917)
(ration fatigue, rest period, return to trenches)
Memories of a front-line runner
On the Western Front with 47 M.G. Company
Hair-cut, sir?
The Third Battle of Ypres
From Grantham to Passchendaele
Ration fatigue in the Salient
Remember Belgium (poem)
The Menin Road
Cambrai
The youngest machine-gunner of all
Three days in a salient
Father Christmas
Barking Creek (poem)
Vat' 16
The Final German Offensive	131	(17)
Left on the shelf
As seen by a Signaller
Meteran
Ridge Wood
Like a bad dream
The Machine Gun Corps Band
Memories of a 9th Division machine-gunner
The Final Act on the Western Front	148	(18)
Civilisation versus The Hun German retreat becoming a rout
Copy of Citation
Memories of Bohain
The final advance
The last battle
The End
How other machine-gunners saw the end: An N.C.O. of 41 M.G. Company
A gunner of 126 M.G. Company
A signaller with 17th Battalion 9D M.G. Company
A gunner of 46 M.G. Company
Paddy
The Mesopotamia Campaign	166	(59)
The first battle of Kut
With 135 Machine Gun Company (by an N.C.O.)
A river journey of 130 miles
Front line duty at Sannaiyat
Battle of Hai Salient
The second battle of Sannaiyat
Recapture of Kut-el-Amara
Advance on Baghdad
The battle of the Dialah River
Capture of Baghdad
The aftermath
No enemies in death
Night marches
A desert battle
The photograph
On to Samarra with 135 Machine Gun Company
Tekrit
In the Line
Desert Dentistry
The Euphrates front
The battle of Khan-Baghdadi
Memories of Mesopotamia
Guard mounting
Smiler
Lamb
Fatha Gorge
Closing on the enemy
Order of the day
In the Sinai Desert
With 135 M.G. Company in Palestine
The Two Sisters
Buttercup Hill
Two starless nights in the Holy Land
Allenby's Final Push
Corporal Jones and a future Field Marshal
With the 1st Armoured Motor Battery, M.G.C.
Bisley---British East Africa---Libyan Desert---Palestine
A memorable sea voyage
First contact with the enemy
Desert patrols in 120 degrees F.
Mopping-up operations in Palestine
Memories of the end in Palestine and Syria (1918)
November 11th, 1918
Principal Contributors	225	(2)
Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades Association	227	(2)
Units Mentioned	229	(4)
Index	233