Chatham in the Great War

by Stephen Wynn

Chatham played a very important part in the nation's Great War effort. It was one of the British Royal Navy's three 'Manning Ports', with more than a third of the town's ships manned by men allocated to the Chatham Division. The war was only 6 weeks old when Chatham felt the affects of war for the first time. On 22 September 1914, three Royal Naval vessels from the Chatham Division, HMS Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, were sunk in quick succession by a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473827884
• ISBN13: 9781473827882
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 152 Pages