West Yorkshire Regiment - Famous Regiments Series

 

Every boy's schoolmaster has his `favourites', however strenuously he may deny it. Field-Marshal Bill Slim, however, never made any secret of the fact that the West Yorkshires were `favourites' of his in the Second World War Burma campaign; not for nothing did he become the Colonel of the Regiment. `I'll sort 'em out': this was the valediction of Sergeant Turner, former Halifax bus conductor, as he set out on the last of his one-man grenade-throwing sorties against the Japanese at Bishenpur in 1944 which was to win him the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross.And `sort 'em out' the West Yorkshires inevitably did — whether the enemy were French, Russians, Maoris, Afghans or Boers. In two World Wars they meted out the same treatment to Germans, Turks and Japanese alike, and in any theatre of operations there was never a commander who did not sleep more soundly in the knowledge that a battalion of the 14th were in the vicinity.Today, alas, the West Yorkshires are no more, for like many another `steady old line mob' — the guardsman's derisive and affectionate term for a county regiment — they have been swept up in the programme of amalgamation. Here is the great story, greatly told, of a regiment whose memory will remain evergreen in the annals of the British Army.

 

A. J. Barker

Hardcover with d/w 80pp Leo Cooper 1974 1st Edition

 

Fine/Vg

Book Code:  SH3387