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The Story of the 29th Division. A Record of Gallant Deeds [1925, British Army]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Michigan https://books.google.com/books?id=HUG2AAAAMAAJ The title page states Compiled from Narratives supplied by the Three Divisional Commanders and Others. Captain Gillon the editor, was Late King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 29 th Division. The Introduction pages x-xi says "Its [The book’s] purpose is to enable those, who can find interest in the deeds of men who saved the Empire, to follow the fortunes of the 29th Division from formation to disbandment, and to remind those who served in it of the divisional life and of incidents in which they played a part. Omissions are inevitable. It is not only those, who win Victoria Crosses, who show the highest bravery. But time and space and lack of funds exclude the possibility of a detailed story, and restrict the scope of the tale to the division itself and what was typical of it.... The book is, frankly, from the point of the Higher Command. Book I. is, for the first six months of the division's existence, the result of the most careful researches of Brigadier-General Wolley-Dod, G.S.O. 1., of the 29th in its early ordeal, in …the Historical Section of the Committee of

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