A joint operation between Britain and France in , the Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany's military strength. By the end of the action, very little ground had been won: the Allied Forces had made just 12 km. For. This memoir shows what life was like for a British soldier on the Somme in the closing stages of the battle. It doesn't cover the bloody opening day, but 12 days in the biting cold of November Sidney Rogerson is a young lieutenant in the 2nd West Yorks as the Battle of the Somme comes to an end.4/5. Twelve Days on the Somme is a memoir of the last spell of frontline duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Written by Sidney Rogerson, a young officer in B Company, it gives an extraordinarily frank and often moving account of what it was really like to fight through one of the most notorious battles of the First World War/5(64).
C Sidney Rogerson, "Twelve Days" (The Somme) C E. L. Spears, "Prelude to Victory" (First Marne) C Compton MacKenzie, "Gallipoli Memoirs" (Gallipoli campaign, ) C Ernest Hemingway,?Wounded" (Caporetto, Italo-Austrian Front, ) C John Glub, "A Soldier's Diary of the Great War" C Robert Graves, excerpt from Goodbye to. Autumn is definitely here. There have been winds, rain, sunshine, mild days and the light has softened from summer's bright halo to a golden crown which accentuates the turning leaves and patchwork fields. Our friends and farmers Yves and Thierry have been harvesting maize, sugarbeet and potatoes, so across the fields of The Somme there has. Buy Hell They Called Highwood, The: the Somme New by Norman, Terry (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Written in by Sidney Rogerson, a Company Commander in the West Yorks during WW1 because he was getting fed up of memoirs coming out at that time talking only of battles. He wrote 12 Days to illustrate what a ‘normal’ period in the front line was like for the ordinary infantryman and chose a period at the end of the Battle of the Somme. twelve days on the somme a memoir of the trenches Like New, Buy it now - TWELVE DAYS ON THE SOMME A MEMOIR OF THE TRENCHES by SIDNEY ROGERSON HB Add to Watch list Added to your Watch list. The cycle, in the British army, usually lasted twelve days. Sidney Rogerson, a company commander in a battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, used the twelve-day cycle to describe his unit’s ordeal in and behind the trenches of the Somme battlefield in the winter of The British army had attacked the German lines on the Somme on 1 July
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