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Mons, Anzac and Kut (ePub)

An MP (Lieutenant Colonel The Hon Aubrey Herbert MP)

Military WWI > Battles & Campaigns > Gallipoli WWI > Battles & Campaigns > Mons WWI > By Year > 1914

By Edward Melotte
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
File Size: 2.3 MB (.epub)
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781844685141
Published: 19th November 2009

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Aubrey Herbert was one of the most interesting figures of his age. He was twice offered the Albanian throne! Born almost blind, his sight even after surgery precluded him from official military service and he became a diplomat and politician. However in 1914 he attached himself unofficially to the Irish Guards on the outbreak of war on their way to France and was made an honorary Lieutenant. Despite his service overseas in France, the Dardanelles and then Egypt and Iraq, he remained an MP throughout the War.

He was briefly captured in the Retreat from Mons and, after recovering from his wounds, he joined the Intelligence Bureau in Egypt before being attached to the New Zealand and Australian Division at Gallipoli. He personally persuaded General Ian Hamilton, the overall Commander, to agree a temporary truce with the Turks to enable the burial of the dead and the recovery of wounded men in no-man's-land.

Later in Iraq, his efforts to buy the release of the beleaguered British garrison at Kut were less successful.

His extraordinary war experiences brought him into close contact with a wide cast of characters, not least T E Lawrence, Compton McKenzie and leading military and political figures

The diaries, on which this book is based, contain hilarious as well as tragic details.

Literary Review

Aubrey Herbert was one of the most remarkable Irish Guardsmen of the Great War. His great grandson, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Melotte who is still serving in the Irish Guards, has re-published his memoirs with additional comment and detail. They are not only of great historical interest, but reveal the inner life of a prominent figure of the generation which went through the most horrific of wars and changed British society forever.

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