In Retreat [1925, British Army]

Digitised by Google Books from the collection of the University of Colorado at Boulder, see Source below. If necessary, click on Show More, below.   A volume in the series The Hogarth Essays . Additional title within the book A Journal of the Retreat of the Fifth Army from St. Quentin, March 1918. The Introduction, written in 1925, says "It is now seven years since the incidents here related took place, and six years since I wrote down this account. I had preserved, rather by accident than by design, a bundle of messages and field-maps connected with the Retreat, and it occurred to me, in the Spring of 1919, that here was circumstantial evidence of a kind which, despite the immensity of the war, was little likely to be preserved." Herbert Read served in the 2nd, 7th and 10th battalions of the Yorkshire Regiment, the Green Howards, from 1915 to 1918. He was in the 2nd Battalion during the German Spring Offensive of March 1918.    Awarded the Distinguished Service Order: T./Lt. (A./Capt.) Herbert Edward Read, M.C., Yorks. R. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his commanding officer was wounded, he took command and successfully held his position for some time, surrounded by the enemy. He then organised the remnants of the battalion, and fought a brilliant rear-guard action. His behaviour at a most critical period of the battle was worthy of the highest praise. Supplement to the London Gazette , 26 July, 1918, page 8749 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30813/supplement/8749   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Read  Herbert Read (Wikipedia).  Sir Herbert Edward Read, English poet and critic   The Green Howards in the Great War by Colonel H C Wylly published 1926 is available in the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/greenhowardsgtwar/page/n9/mode/2up