Cover

Title

Copyright

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Maps

THE 2nd BATTALION THE BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE REGIMENT.

Chapter

1. England – Summer 1939

2. France – The Phoney War

3. France – The Maginot Line

4. The German Attack, May, 1940

5. Avelghem on the Escaut 18–22 May

6. The French Frontier – Neuville en Terrain 23/27 May

7.Wytschaete – Messines Ridge 27–29 May

8. The Dunkirk Perimeter

9. The Beaches – 1 June 1940

10. Home Defence 1940 – 1943

11. North Africa 1943

12. Medjez el Bab

13. Tunisia – The Final Battles

14. North Africa-Bougie

15. Italy February 1944 – The General Situation

16. Italy – February-March 1944

17. Italy – March–April 1944

18. Cassino – Topography and The Divisional Plan

19. Cassino – 11 May 1944

20. Cassino – Points 50 and 58

21. Italy – May/June 1944

22. Italy – June 1944

23. Italy – July 1944

24. Italy – August/September 1944

25. Prisoner of the Germans – Private Scully tells his story

26. Hospitalization

27. Italy – October /November 1944

28. Greece and Egypt.

THE 1st BATTAUONTHE HERTFORD SHIRE REGIMENT (TA)

29. Deployments 1939–1944

30. Italy – September 1944

31. The Gothic Line

32. Italy – October/December 1944

33. Syria and Palestine

THE 2nd BATTAUONTHE HERTFORDSHIRE REGIMENT (TA)

34. A Beach Group Battalion

THE 5th BATTAUON THE BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE REGIMENT (TA)

35. Mobilization, Training and Deployment

36. Captivity – Prisoners of the Japanese

STAFF AND EXTRA-REGIMENT ALLY EMPLOYED

37. Bedfords with the Staff and Extra-Regimentally Employed

APPENDICES

I. List of men in No 3 Section, 16 Platoon, "D" Company.

II. Casualties, 1 st Battalion The Hertfordshire Regiment (TA).

III. Letter from Field Marshal Montgomery

IV. No 9 Beach Group

V. Casualties, 5th Battalion The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment (TA)

VI. Bedfords in the Commandos

VII. Honours and Awards

VIII. Battalions serving 1939–1946

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX