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Excerpt from Atypres With Best-DunkleyThese memoirs, then consist mainly of extracts from my private diary and my letters home during those memorable days, spent in the Salient and its vicinity, between the Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres. The letters cover a definite period in the history of a great battalion and in the course of the war. As will speedily be noticed, the whole period was one of looking forward, practising and...

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Lt. Col. Bertram Best-Dunkley was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Battle of Ypres on 31st July 1917 but died from his wounds on 5 August.

In these pages I give to the public, for what they are worth, my own personal impressions of the people and things I saw and with whom I came into contact. I hope I have revealed the late Colonel Best-Dunkley to the public just as he was-as he appeared to me and as he appeared to others. I believe that in this I am doing right. I am fully aware of the many imperfections of this book, but if it succeeds at all in vividly recalling to those wh...

Excerpt from Atypres With Best-DunkleyThese memoirs, then consist mainly of extracts from my private diary and my letters home during those memorable days, spent in the Salient and its vicinity, between the Battle of Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres. The letters cover a definite period in the history of a great battalion and in the course of the war. As will speedily be noticed, the whole period was one of looking forward, practising and...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley (1917) is an account of the events which led up to the Battle of Ypres in 1917 and was written by Thomas Hope Floyd (1896-1973). Bertram Best-Dunkley (3 August 1890-5 August 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and a Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in...

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