Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book still in great condition. Cover and corners has some wear and damage but pages are free from notes and in good condition. Some marking due to age. See images. A great book.

About the book >.>.> The Gunners were left behind in England and took over Sheffield District. It is interesting to note in view of the subsequent fighting how battalions were equipped. They took with them four two-inch mortars without ammunition eighteen Bren guns ten Anti-tank rifles one motor-cycle one four- seater car eight fifteen and three thirty hundredweights and one water-truck. So accoutred the Division sailed from South- ampton on the 28th April and the following morning landed at Cherbourg the heart of the British Expeditionary Forces arteries of supply. France in May 1940 was a not uncom- fortable country. Living was cheap and the people friendly. If their light beer hardly rivalled Burton Special or Tetley’s Dynamite it was nevertheless only fourpence a litre. Eggs and chips in the local estaminets made up for any failure of the Army cooks who ware still unversed in the many variations that can be performed with a sin of stew of bullybeef. (LL)