Chesterfield's Military Heritage - Couverture souple

Tonder, Gerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1445649764 ISBN 13 : 9781445649764

Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Mention of this Derbyshire market town s name invariably conjures up an image of an iconic landmark: the crooked church steeple. It does, however, also speak of a military heritage built up over a millennium.

The word Chester itself is derived from the ancient Roman fort or castrum : military garrisons that peppered the English countryside during the occupation.

In 1266, at the Battle of Chesterfield, Royal forces quashed a rebellion by local barons. Come the English Civil War 400 years later, anti-Royalist sentiment was still strong. Chesterfield deployed militia, together with a company of foot from Derby, to defend the town from the king s forces.

In the nineteenth century, the British Empire, a sprawling global property, demanded defending from armed threat. The Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire regiments of foot, later to be amalgamated as the Sherwood Foresters, attracted volunteers from Chesterfield. Egypt and South Africa became household names, and with the outbreak of the First World War, hundreds answered Kitchener s call. The Western Front claimed the lives of many of the town s sons, their names commemorated in churches and on memorials throughout the town and satellite villages.

The Second World War saw Chesterfield s citizens enlisting with battalions of the Sherwood Foresters, serving in theatres such as the Western Desert, Italy, France and South East Asia. So also came tales of acts of courage and bravery: Fred Greaves, awarded one of the regiment s first VCs and Arthur Norman Crookes, the unique recipient of three DFCs and the American DFC. There were others.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born and raised in the then colony of Southern Rhodesia, full-time historian, researcher, copy-editor and published author, Gerry van Tonder, came to Britain in 1999, settling in Derby, the city of his wife s birth. Since then, Gerry has undertaken extensive private and commissioned research, specialising in military history.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Amberley Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1445649764
• ISBN 13: 9781445649764
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96