The Seventh Manchesters: July 1916 to March 1919

The author, an officer drawing on his regimental diary, chronicles a battalion's service from campaigns in the Eastern theaters through desert operations and Gallipoli to sustained trench warfare on the Western Front. Chapters combine operational narrative, daily routines, and sketch maps to detail raids, defensive holds, advances, and pursuit actions, with accounts of living conditions, engineering tasks, logistics, casualties, and honours. The narrative highlights small-unit initiative and the shift from frontier and desert life to industrialized battle, and concludes with postwar movements and appendices listing awards and personnel losses.