Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15, by Gordon Corrigan
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Four days after the declaration of war, an Indian corps of two infantry divisions and a cavalry brigade was ordered to embark for the Western Front. Clad in in tropical uniforms, those men endured one of the bitterest winters on record and fought in every major battle of the next two years. In a country they had never seen, against an enemy of whom they knew little, and in a cause that was not their own, they fought for the honor of their country and their regiments. This book draws upon a mass of unpublished sources and extensive interviews by the author in India and Nepal—it must be remembered that Gordon Corrigan (fluent in Nepali) was a commanding officer in the Brigade of Gurkhas.
Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15, by Gordon Corrigan- Amazon Sales Rank: #3435564 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x .90" w x 6.10" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
About the Author Major Gordon Corrigan retired from the Brigade of Gurkhas in 1998 to become a military historian. He is the author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock and Loos 1915. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Well Presented Account of the Indian Corps in WW1 By Aussie Reader This well researched and nicely presented book, by Gordon Corrigan, offers the reader an insightful and interesting account of the Indian Corps during the first year of the Great War. The book provides a detailed combat narrative of the period between 1914 - 1915 when the Indian Corps served on the Western Front. The author, who served in the British Army from 1962 to 1998, spent some time in command of a Gurkha unit and his love for these brave and resourceful soldiers shows in this account.The book is well written and covers a large range of material and subjects concerning the Indian units who served on the Western Front as part of the BEF until they were re-deployed to Mesopotamia in November 1915. Not only are the battles covered in detail but the make-up and performance of the Indian Corps is assessed and a number of myths and stories are clarified and laid to rest.The author takes the time to give you the background of the Indian Corps and how it was organized and recruited to function under much different circumstances than the attritional warfare of the Western Front. He then shows the problems encountered by the Indian Army on the Western Front due to it being raised, trained and equipped to fight skirmishes on the Indian frontiers and not a modern European war.At the end of the book you feel that the officers and men of the Indian Corps did an outstanding job during that first year of the Great War and that they might not have received the credit that they were due. That they had fought in every major British battle during that period and suffered horrendous casualties fighting in a country they knew little of and in a war that had nothing to do with them and still retained their loyalty and faith in the British Empire was quite amazing.The author has utilised a number of first-hand accounts throughout the narrative, which give you a small idea and feeling of the Indian troops fighting in France. A number of black & white photographs and detailed maps are provided throughout the book and are of a decent standard. Overall this is an excellent account covering a little known and sparsely written about aspect of the First World War. I am sure that any student or reader of this period of history will enjoy this book and will learn something new to take away after putting the book back on its shelf.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Who are the Sepoys and Why Should I Care? By Gary Hobin Corrigan's book offers readers an insight into the challenges faced by soldiers in the first year of the Great War. This is a battle narrative, and one previous reviewer faulted it as being "merely" a list of engagements. While that is true enough on the surface, Corrigan's text also details the efforts of soldiers to cope with the realities of combat conditions for which their training and experience had not prepared them. The British Army in 1914 was a small force of trained regulars whose missions had been fighting the small wars of the Empire. The Indian Corps -- consisting of regiments raised in or posted to British India -- was the only reinforcing formation immediately available. As a recent US Secretary of Defense noted, "you go to war with the army you've got," which is not necessarily the one you might have wanted. The British Army, including the Indian Corps, was not prepared for the conditions of warfare as they developed in northeast France. Nor, one must add, were any of the other combatants. Prepared for a war of maneuver, combatants found themselves fighting from trenches. The war that all sides assumed would be of short duration bogged down into virtual stalemate; combatants found themselves short of artillery ammunition, and without the types of weapons dictated by conditions on the Western Front. Corrigan's book provides a perspective on how one set of soldiers improvised both tools and techniques to deal with these unanticipated challenges. Yes, it is a battle narrative and there are exhaustive accounts of individual acts of heroism, of small unit actions, of regimental attacks that went nowhere. But this book has more to offer than tales of derring-do. Read it for insights of how our grandfathers' and great-grandfathers' generation coped with the reality of combat. One more note: I think the book would have been improved if the editors had added an appendix that detailed the rank structure of the British Indian regiments -- specifically relating rank titles to their relative equivalents in the British Army, for example. .
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very good history on the Indian Korps in France By Amazon Customer Very good history on the Indian Korps in France. They were needed badly as the BEF was running out of soldiers at this early stage of WWI. They performed heroically. The problem was the different castes, ethnic groups, diets, cultures that made up the Indian Korps. Finally as English troops began arriving the Indian Korps was pulled out to the Middle East. Well written with stories of individual soldiers doings. Very funny story of the 5'2" Gurkha capturing several "Big" Germans in a house fight. He marched the Germans out, single file, with himself making up the rear, poking the last German in the butt with his bayonet. I had to laugh at this picture in my mind.
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