HISTORY OF THE 12TH (EASTERN) DIVISION IN THE
GREAT WAR. By Major-General Sir Arthur B. Scott and
the Rev. P. Middleton Brumwell, C.F. (Nisbet. 15s. net.)
The Twelfth Division, composed of men from East Anglia, London and the Home Counties, was the third New Army division to go to France, and from May, 1915, till the end it did splendid work. The chief episodes in this carefully written history are Loos and the desperate struggles in the Hohenzollern craters, Ovillers (Somme), Arms and Monchy, the Cambrai battles of the close of 1917 and, in the final advance, Epehy, where the Germans offered a most stubborn resistance and where the division lost most heavily in killed and wounded. The Twelfth had many severe trials—its total casualties were over 43,000, and more than once it lost over half its strength in a single day—but it remained one of the best fighting divisions of the Army. Its former com- mander's maps are good, and its former chaplain is an exact chronicler.
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