The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b The Second Battalion and AppendicesKipling, Rudyard
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The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 2 (of 2) : $b The Second Battalion and Appendices
Kipling, Rudyard
Great Britain. Army. Irish Guards -- History; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain
Greer, Lieut.-Col. E. B., M.C., i. 2, 17, 35, 58, 190; ii. 40, 51,
69, 75, 91, 94, 119, 128, 143, 145, 146, 147 _n._, 151, 152,
154, 216, 218, 220, 225
Greer, Lieut. F. St. L., M.C., ii. 88, 98, 99, 106, 124, 219, 225
Greer, Lieut. J. K. M., M.C., i. 85, 147, 164, 167; ii. 218, 220, 225
Grenadier Guards:
1st Battalion:
(1915) Laventie, ii. 57
(1917) Yser Canal and the Broembeek, i. 220, 233-234
(1918) Arras, i. 257;
Prémy Chapel, i. 307, 308
Drums of, ii. 204
2nd Battalion:
(1914) i. 1, 4;
Mons, i. 5, 7;
Soupir, i. 16, 19, 20, 23;
Ypres, i. 26, 30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 43, 45, 51
(1915) La Bassée, Cuinchy, i. 54, 58, 61, 64, 89, 94;
Neuve Chapelle, i. 71;
Festubert, i. 83, 84;
Loos, i. 109, 114, 115, 116
(1916) Ypres, i. 139, 142, 145, 152, 153; ii. 76, 77, 78;
the Somme: Ginchy, Lesbœufs, i. 156, 164, 169, 179, 180, 181,
182; ii. 99, 104
(1917) the Somme: Sailly-Saillisel, i. 190; ii. 112, 115;
Yser Canal and the Broembeek, i. 231, 232, 233, 234; ii. 152;
the Somme: Gouzeaucourt, Gauche Wood, i. 244, 246
(1918) the Scarpe: the March Push, i. 254, 256, 257, 259, 266,
276, 279;
St. Léger, i. 289, 290, 294;
the Canal du Nord, i. 307;
the advance on Maubeuge, i. 311, 317, 318-319, 323, 325, 328
Boxing matches with 1st Irish Guards, i. 69
Brigade Platoon Competition won by, i. 208
3rd Battalion:
(1914) i. 1
(1915) Cuinchy, i. 61;
Loos, the Hohenzollern, Laventie, ii. 10, 18, 34
(1916) the Somme: Ginchy, ii. 96, 97, 100, 107-108
(1917) Yser Canal, i. 221; ii. 136, 149;
the Somme: Bourlon Wood, i. 241; ii. 173
(1918) the Scarpe, i. 243;
the advance on Maubeuge, i. 324, 327
Boxing competitions, ii. 80
4th Battalion:
(1915) formation, ii. 1;
Laventie, i. 125
(1916) Laventie, ii. 49;
the Somme, ii. 94-95
(1917) the Somme: Sailly-Saillisel, i. 205;
Bourlon Wood, i. 241;
Gouzeaucourt, i. 244
(1918) in Fourth Guards Brigade, i. 253; ii. 180 _n._, 184;
Arleux, ii. 185;
the Somme: March Push, ii. 187, 188;
Vieux-Berquin, ii. 193-194, 195, 196, 201;
the advance, ii. 208, 210
Grenay, i. 106, 112
Grévillers, i. 197, 262
Gricourt, i. 309
Grimwood, C.S.M., ii. 141
Grougis, i. 4
Gruyterzaele Farm, ii. 166
Guards Brigade:
4th (Guards) Brigade, i. 1, 4, 5-6, 8, 9 _sqq._, 103, 283;
becomes 1st Guards Brigade of Guards Division, i. 101, 102
4th Guards Brigade created, i. 253, 258; ii. 180 _n._, 184;
its stand at Vieux-Berquin, ii. 197, 201;
as a training corps, ii. 205, 207.
Guards Division, formation of, i. 101;
(1919) march through London, ii. 215-216, 222
Guards Machine-Gun Regt., i. 290, 292, 303, 307
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