Cheerful Sacrifice by Jonathan Nicholls

Cheerful Sacrifice by Jonathan Nicholls

Author:Jonathan Nicholls
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: World War 1
ISBN: 9781844687565
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2009-04-20T16:00:00+00:00


1PRO WO95/1770.

2Robert Monypenny, after a long period in hospital, eventually returned to active service in the Far East. He did not serve in France again. He left the Army in 1922.

3Official History, France and Belgium, 1917, p. 231.

4Lieutenant-Colonel W. D. Croft, Three Years with the 9th (Scottish) Division, p. 117.

5Spears, Prelude to Victory, p. 594.

6Falls, Official History, France and Belgium 1917, p. 201.

7Ludendorff, My War Memories, p. 436.

8Monash, The Australian Victories in France, p. 291.

9The most famous of FOOs to die on 9 April was the poet, Second-Lieutenant Edward Thomas, 244th Siege Battery RGA. Killed in a forward observation post, he is buried at Agny Military Cemetery.

10PRO W095/362.

11Nicholson papers, Imperial War Museum.



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