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Forward the Rifles : Captain David Campbell, M.C. : 16 November 1887 - 10 April 1971, 6th Royal Irish Rifles / [introduction by David Henry Campbell].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dublin : Nonsuch, 2009.Description: 157 p. : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781845889661 pbk.
Other title:
  • War diary of an Irish soldier, 1914-1918
Subject(s): Summary: The battlefields of Gallipoli and Salonica were a far cry from life on a small working farm in County Louth, Ireland, and yet, in 1915, Captain David Campbell, M.C., 6th Royal Irish Rifles, found himself in the searing Turkish heat, confronted by a faceless and seemingly tireless enemy. Less that twelve months after joining the Officers' Training Corps in Trinity College Dublin, Campbell led his company over the arid ground to the Front. From the beginning he kept a diary, describing life in these two theatres of war in great detail.
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Title on cover: Forward the Rifles : the war diary of an Irish soldier, 1914-1918.

The battlefields of Gallipoli and Salonica were a far cry from life on a small working farm in County Louth, Ireland, and yet, in 1915, Captain David Campbell, M.C., 6th Royal Irish Rifles, found himself in the searing Turkish heat, confronted by a faceless and seemingly tireless enemy. Less that twelve months after joining the Officers' Training Corps in Trinity College Dublin, Campbell led his company over the arid ground to the Front. From the beginning he kept a diary, describing life in these two theatres of war in great detail.

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