Foreword; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Terms; An Overview of Cemeteries and Memorials; Memorials in Belgium and France; Introduction; 1 The Road to War: June to August 1914; 21st Battalion, Elouges to La Bassee: 4 August to 30 October 1914; 31st Battalion, Messines-Wulverghem Road: Christmas Truce 1914; 4 The Service Battalions of the Norfolk Regiment: The Kitchener Men; 51st Battalion, St Eloi and Hill 60: March to June 1915; 6 Trench Warfare and the Service Battalions Initial Moves: May to August 1915; 7 The 7th and 9th Battalions, The Battles of Loos, The Quarries: 26 September to 13 October 1915; 8 On the Eve of the Somme, The Norfolk Regiment Battalions: 30 June 1916; 9 The 8th Battalion, The Battle of the Somme, Montauban to Delville Wood: 1-19 July 1916; 10 The 1st Battalion, The Battle of the Somme, High Wood and Longueval, 21-27 July 1916; 11 The 6th (Cyclist) Battalion to the Somme and the 7th Battalion at Ovillers to 6th Avenue Trench: 3 July to 13 August 1916; 12 The 1st and 9th Battalions, The Battle of the Somme, Falfemont Farm to Morval: 4-25 September 1916;2 13 The 8th Battalion, The Battle of the Somme, Thiepval to the Schwaben Redoubt: 26 September to 5 October 1916; 14 The 7th and 9th Battalions, The Battle of the Somme, Bayonet and Mild Trenches: 12-18 October 1916; 12 The Norfolk Regiment on the Western Front 1914-1918 15 The 8th Battalion, The Battle of the Somme, Regina Trench: 21-23 October 1916; 16 The 8th Battalion, Operations on the Ancre, Boom Ravine to Irles: 17 February to 10 March 1917; 17 The 7th Battalion, First Battle of the Scarpe, Maison Rouge: 9 April 1917; 18 The 1st Battalion, La Coulotte: 23 April 1917; 19 The 7th Battalion, The Battle of Arleux, Rifle Trench: 28 April 1917; 20 The 1st Battalion, Oppy Wood: 28 June 1917; 21 The 9th Battalion, Hill 70, Loos: 1 July to 3 October 1917; 22 The 1st and 8th Battalions, The Third Battle of Ypres: 31 July to 22 October 1917; 23 Shot at Dawn, Private John Abigail (9694), 8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment; 24 The 7th and 9th Battalions, The Battle of Cambrai, Ribecourt to Nine Wood: 20 November to 7 December 1917; 25 The 7th and 9th Battalions, The Kaiser's Battle, Lagnicourt to Bouzincourt Ridge: 21 March to 5 April 1918; 26 The 9th Battalion, The Battle of the Lys, Neuve-Eglise to Chateau Segard: 1-29 April 1918; 27 The 12th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion, Nieppe Forest: 25 June to 27 July 1918; 28 The 7th Battalion, The Battle of Amiens, Morlancourt: 8-9 August 1918; 29 The 12th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion, The Advance into Flanders, Vieux Berquin, and Bailleul: 18-31 August 1918; 30 The 1st and 7th Battalions, The Battle of Albert and Bapaume: 21 August to 3 September 1918; 31 The 1st Battalion, Norfolk Pioneers: 2 December 1916 to 30 August 1918; 32 The 7th and 9th Battalions, The Battles of the Hindenburg Line, Nurlu to the St Quentin Canal: 27-30 September 1918; 33 The 1st Battalion, Battle of the Canal du Nord, Gouzeaucourt to Gonnelieu: 28-30 September 1918; 34 The 1st and 9th Battalions, Cambrai and the Pursuit to the Selle, Brancourt to Bazuel: 8-25 October 1918; 35 The 12th Battalion, The Final Advance into Flanders, St Yves to Audenarde: 11 September to 31 October 1918; 36 The 1st Battalion, The Battle of the Sambre, The Forest of Mormal: 5-8 November 1918; 37 Armistice; 38 Boy Soldiers; Postscript; Appendix: Commanding Officers for the Five Battalions; Bibliography; Index.
The Norfolk Regiment on the Western Front : 1914-1918