The Saga of the Seventh Division (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Saga of the Seventh Division Men's memories being short, it is advisable, if they condescend to read my Saga and are to understand the allusions, to recall to them what was this Seventh Division - which some have called Immortal - and what it did to earn the epithet. It was formed at Lyndhurst in the New Forest in the September of 1914, composed of regiments from the garrisons of the Mediterranean, the Channel Islands, Egypt and South Africa, besides one battalion from Dublin and two battalions of the Guards. Being garrison regiments from foreign service, nearly up to war strength, so not stiffened to any extent by reservists, and the men being all of three to seven years service, they were the flower of the old British Army - "General French's contemptible little army, " as the now historic phrase had it. The Division's total strength was about 18, 500. It consisted of the 20th Brigade (1st Grenadier Guards, 2nd Scots Guards, 2nd Gordon Highlanders and 2nd Border Regiment), the 21st Brigade (2nd Scots Fusiliers, 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Yorkshire Green Howards and 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment), the 22nd Brigade (1st Welsh Fusiliers, 1st South Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd Warwickshire Regiment and 2nd Queen's West Surrey Regiment), the Northumberland Hussars, Yeomanry, a Brigade Division Royal Field Artillery, four 4.7 guns, and detachments of Royal Engineers and R.A.M. Corps. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.