WITH A ROYAL ENGINEERS FIELD COMPANY IN FRANCE AND ITALY: April 1915 to the Armistice

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VF Eberle MC joined up on the outbreak of WWI in No 2 Field Company Royal Engineers, 48th (South Midland) Division. Details how he was commissioned before sailing for France at the end of March 1915 and remained with it for the rest of the war, seeing action in the Somme and in the Advance to the Hindenburg Line before his Division took part for most of the Battle of Third Ypres. Transferred to Italy at the end of 1917, he took part in the final stages of the war, including the Battle of Asiago. Based on his war time letters, diaries, and records, gives a detailed picture of the employment of a field company in war, both during periods of relative tranquility as well as during major offensives. Contains 32 black and white illustrations.