Khaki Jack Coleman Ernest Paperback
Khaki Jack Coleman Ernest Paperback Many thousands of Royal Naval seamen and Royal Marines fought in the trenches of the Great War alongside soldiers from across the Empire. The seamen and marines,…
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Khaki Jack Coleman Ernest Paperback
Many thousands of Royal Naval seamen and Royal Marines fought in the trenches of the Great War alongside soldiers from across the Empire. The seamen and marines, supported by Army battalions, fought at Anzac Cove, on the Somme, and at Passchendale. Their graves may be found around Antwerp, on the Gallipoli peninsula, and all along the Western Front.
At the armistice, the Royal Naval Division had suffered 46,794 casualties, of whom 10,797 lost their lives. They suffered giant siege mortars whilst delaying the enemy in Belgium, flies and the stench of widespread carnage on Turkish shores, and gas attacks whilst sheltering in flooded shell-holes on the Western Front. At the same time, the Division earned many decorations for gallantry, including eight Victoria Crosses.
The Germans regarded the Royal Naval Division as 'one of the four most famous fighting Divisions of the British Army. From