Fire-Step to Fokker Fodder: From the Trenches to the Red Baron. the First World War Diaries of William 'Jack' Lidsey

by Andrew White

Jack Lidsey was one of the first to volunteer during the Great War, enlisting as a private soldier in his local regiment, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in August 1914. He was sent to the Ypres Salient in March 1915, experiencing trench warfare around Ploegsteert Wood before moving south to the Somme in France. Lidsey was sent home for commissioning early in 1916, re-joining his battalion as a Second Lieutenant just in time for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999812875
• ISBN13: 9781999812874
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Fighting High
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"