The Russell Cawthorn Collection
The Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts Toc H and Other Religious and Spiritual Influences General Religious Aspects
RCC7500
From Gallipoli to Baghdad
ISBN
Purchase Price
£18.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
July 13, 2017
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton (1917, London)
Notes
The author of this book was a Minister of the Church of Scotland. He was mobilised at the outbreak of the was in August 1914 with the Territorial Battalion to which he had been attached in peacetime, the 4th Royal Scots (Q.E.R.). Initially he was overseeing the spiritual welfare of men in and around Edinburgh belonging to the Forth Defences. In April 1915 he left for Gallipoli from Plymouth. He saw through the whole Gallipoli Campaign, very much at first hand, then he was posted to Mesopotamia and stayed with that Campaign until the capture of Baghdad, after which he returned to the U.K. This is a valuable first hand account of two campaigns by a supposedly "non-combatant" who nevertheless saw events as they unfolded. It is accordingly a valuable account and stands out from the usual diaries and memoirs of which we see so many.
Purchase Price
£18.00 (second hand)
Date Purchased
July 13, 2017
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton (1917, London)
Notes
The author of this book was a Minister of the Church of Scotland. He was mobilised at the outbreak of the was in August 1914 with the Territorial Battalion to which he had been attached in peacetime, the 4th Royal Scots (Q.E.R.). Initially he was overseeing the spiritual welfare of men in and around Edinburgh belonging to the Forth Defences. In April 1915 he left for Gallipoli from Plymouth. He saw through the whole Gallipoli Campaign, very much at first hand, then he was posted to Mesopotamia and stayed with that Campaign until the capture of Baghdad, after which he returned to the U.K. This is a valuable first hand account of two campaigns by a supposedly "non-combatant" who nevertheless saw events as they unfolded. It is accordingly a valuable account and stands out from the usual diaries and memoirs of which we see so many.