Description | Includes chapters 'The checks and balances break down across Europe', 'Scarlet tunics and bearskins: Hull Coldstreamers in 1914', Deadlock at the Aisne; The 1st East Yorks arrive in the Aisne', 'Taking the King's shilling: Hull Volunteers in 1914', 'Please come quickly!, The East Yorkshire Regiment at Second Ypres', 'Distant guns, The 6th East Yorks sail for Gallipoli', 'You're needed now! Conscription looms', and 'What became of the men of 1914-1915?'. Includes appendices of Hull Policeman serving with Coldstream Guards in Aug 1914, Hull men serving with the Coldsream Guards in 1914, officers serving with the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment in Sep 1914, Hull officers serving with 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment in Apr-May 1915, Hull men killed serving 1/4th East Yorkshire Regiment Second Battle of Ypres Apr 22-May 25, battalion commanders killed whilst serving with the East Yorkshire Regiment 1914-1915, |