Military books on British Regiments and Divisions in the British Army including regimental histories by leading military authors.

Divisional Histories of the Great War 1914 - 1918

On 1st August 1914 there were six Regular and 14 Territorial Divisions in Great Britain and Ireland, all infantry (the Cavalry Division only came into existence on mobilization), and before the war had ended 70 more had been formed including a further two cavalry and a Royal Naval division.  These divisions were constituted as follows: Regular - 15 (incl three cavalry); Territorial/Yeomanry - 34 (incl six Yeomanry); New Army - 36 (of which six were broken up in April 1915 to create a training reserve); and five others, which included the RN Division, three Home Service divisions (71st, 72nd and 73rd), and a mixed British/Indian division (75th).  Of these divisions 69 served overseas in Theatres of War, three (TF) went to India and 18 never left the UK.  Those histories which were written were, naturally, about the divisions which went on active service; none of those that remained at home or went to India produced a history.  In all, 39 divisional histories were written and published between 1918 (10th division) and 1939 (50th) and it is interesting to see the breakdown by types of division: all 15 regular divisions were on active service and of these only seven produced histories (none of them cavalry); all 30 New Army divisions went to war and they produced 17 histories, to which we must add one more - (16th Irish) - which only appeared in 1992, a belated but very welcome tribute to the men of Southern Ireland who fought on the Western Front; 22 TF/Yeomanry divisions were in action and 14 of these wrote histories; and finally the RN Division recorded its service.  The cost of writing and publication had to be borne by donations and subscriptions which may well explain why, with their comparatively wealthy membership and their continued existence as divisions in the post war years the Territorial divisions came out so well.  Eleven of the original 14 TF divisions fought in one or more theatres of war and ten of these published histories.  The histories vary in scope, detail and length.  The Guards, 2nd and 62nd Divisions extend to two volumes, the 30th has only 64 pages.  Most, though not all, have photos and maps, and the standard of the latter also varies considerably, especially in the amount of operational detail shown.  Some histories are concerned only with a specific campaign or period of the war.  Thus the history of 10th (Irish) Division deals only with Gallipoli; 46th (N Midland), which carried out one of the finest operations of the war in crossing the St Quentin Canal and breaching the Hindenburg Line in Sept 1918, covers only the last three months.

History of the East Surrey Regiment 1917 - 1919 Volumes II and III by Colonel H W Pearse, DSO and Brigadier General H S Sloman, CMG, DSO.

These two volumes cover the history of the East Surrey Regiment throughout the Great War. In August 1914 the East Surreys comprised two Regular (1st and 2nd), one Reserve (3rd), one Extra Reserve (4th) and two Territorial battalions (5th and 6th); the Regimental Depot was at Kingston-on-Thames. As the war went on further battalions were added: eight so-called ‘Service’ battalions (7th to 14th) in Kitchener’s New Armies and a second and a third line battalion for each of the Territorial battalions for a total of eighteen battalions of which only nine saw active service overseas, and it is their war record which is the subject of this history. Each volume is divided into sections dealing with different periods, such periods being so defined as to bring out the successive phases of the war on the Western Front or in other theatres, and the successive chapters in each section deal with each battalion in the order of its seniority.
Volume II, which has three sectins, contains the records, up to March 1917, of all the battalions which served overseas, including operations in Salonika, and in addition, in Chapter I, the services up to December 1919 of those battalions that remained in the UK. This same chapter also describes the raising of all the battalions that came into being after the outbreak of war. Volume III has four sections the first three of which cover operations from April 1917, including Salonika and Mesopotamia, Italy and Aden, to the Armistice; the fourth section takes the record from the Armistice to December 1919 describing the disbandment of the Service battalions and operations in North Russia and Mesopotamia. Officer casualties are given by name in the text whereas other rank casualties are shown periodically as totals. However, the one appendix contains the consolidated Roll of Honour of other ranks, listed alphabetically giving rank but not date nor theatre nor battalion identification. Total casualties amounted to 6,750, seven VCs were won and 62 Battle Honours awarded.

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Paperback Book serial number NMP8120.          262 and 302 pages. Price £32.00.

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The Ninth (Queen's Royal) Lancers 1715 - 1903 by Frank H Reynard

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25th Division in France and Flanders by Lt Col M Kincaid-Smith (1920)

New Army division formed in September 1914.  To France in September 1915. Armentieres, Vimy Ridge (1916), Somme, Messines.  Third Ypres and the Aisne (1918).  48,289 casualties (623 officers and 12,623 other ranks dead).  Reconstituted in England June 1918, returned to France in September.  Six VCs. List of decorations with over 300 citations.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP0732.    429 pages. Price £38. 

The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 1914 - 1918 by Frederick P. Gibbon

(2003 reprint)

The story of the first Territorial division to go overseas, in September 1914.  It served in Egypt, Gallipoli and on the Western Fornt.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP6056.    246 pages. Price £38. 

The 47th (London) Division 1914 - 1919. edited by Alan H Maude. (1922)

This is a good history, with more photos and illustrations than any other and very good maps.  There are a number of appendices providing information on a variety of subjects; Order of Battle and changes; comprehensive lists of Commanders and Staffs as well as COs of infantry, artillery, engineer, medical units and divisional train and all their changes; list of honours and awards including two VCs; brief historical notes on the units that served in the division; the divisional entertainment troupe 'The Follies' and more besides.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP0651.    207 pages. Price £35. 

Paperback Book serial number NMP2050.    207 pages. Price £22. 

Breaking the Hindenburg Line, The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division. by Raymond E Priestly (1919).

First TF division to arrive in France in February 1915.  Suffered heavy casualties at Hohenzollern 1915 and Gommecourt 1916.  Outstanding success crossing St Quentin Canal 1918.  29569 casualties in all, six VCs.  History covers in detail only last two months of the war.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP2271.    200 pages. Price £38. 

Paperback Book serial number NMP2662.     200 pages. Price £22. 

The Eighth Division in War 1914 - 1918 by Lt Col J H Boraston and Captain E O Bax Cyril. (1926)

A regular division formed in September 1914 from battalions returning from overseas garrisons.  To Western front in November 1914 and remained there.  Very good history of an unlucky division.  Nearly 64,000 casualties, twelve VCs.  Complete order of battle, succession of commanders down to unit level and staff.  Table showing sectors occupied and periods in the line.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP2673.    360 pages. Price £36. 

56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) 1914 - 1918. by Major C H Dudley Ward. (1921)

Pre-war TF division (1st London).  Broken up to provide reinforcements elsewhere. Reformed in France January 1916.  Gommecourt and the Somme, Arras, and Cambrai.  Order of Battle, succession of commanders and staff.  34,809 casualties.

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The Fifteenth (Scottish) Division 1914 - 1919. by Lt Col J Stewart and John Buchan. (1926)

An account of the division on the Western Front from July 1915 to March 1919.  Appendices with honours and awards, casualties, order of battle, staffs and commanders etc.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP6021.    489 pages. Price £38. 

Fifth Division in the Great War. by Brig Gen A H Hussey and Maj D S Inman. (1921)

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Hardback Book serial number NMP1917.    278 pages. Price £38. 

The Seventh Division.  by C T Atkinson. (1927)

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The Fiftieth Division 1914 - 1919. by Everard Wyrall. (1939)

 The Northumbrian Division, a pre-war TF formation.  To France in April 1915.  St Julien (first gas attack), Somme, Scarpe, Passchendaele, Lys and Aisne (1918).  Estimated casualties at least 34,000.  Order of battle, succession of GOCs and brigade commanders.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP2029.    376 pages. Price £35. 

Divisional and Other Signs. collected and illustrated by V Wheeler Holohan. Capt. 12th London Regiment. (1920)

 Illustrates the signs for every First World War British Division (along with those for Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand) and records their histories and reasons for adoption.

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History of the 12th (Eastern) Division in the Great War.  by Maj Gen Sir Arthur B Scott and P Middleton Brumwell (1923)

 A New Army division formed in August 1914, arrived in France in June 1915.  Loos, Somme, Arras and Cambrai; GOC killed at Loos.  Detailed order of battle and succession of commanders and staff.  48,143 casualties, six VCs.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP228X.    272 pages. Price £38. 

History of the 17th (Northern) Division.  by A Hilliard Atteridge. (1929)

 Record of an infantry division that fought on the Western Front from July 1915, suffering over 40,000 casualties.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP4762.    482 pages. Price £38. 

History of the 35th Division in the Great War.  by H M Davson. (1926)

 For the first two years of its existence this was a 'Bantam' division.  It fought on the Western Front from March 1916, but by early 1917, with the lack of suitable men of the qualifying bantam physique and reinforcements coming from disbanded yeomanry regiments the 35th division could no longer be deemed a Bantam division.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP6064.    346 pages. Price £38. 

The History of the 36th (Ulster) Division. by Cyril Falls.  (1922)

 This is an outstanding history as might be expected of one of the foremost military historians of our time, who served with the division in 11th R Inniskilling Fusiliers and later as a staff officer.He has produced a clear and very readable history which provides not only a record of the divisions operations, both large and small scale, but also a descriptive account of the fighting and of life as it was in and out of the line. The maps are first class with the trench systems standing out clearly. Appendices contain order of battle details, with changes, VC citations and a complete list of honours and awards, including foreign awards.
The division, formed mainly from the Ulster Volunteer Force, came into being in September 1914 as the Ulster Division with brigades numbered 1st, 2nd and 3rd. A month later it was numbered 36th, retaining its Ulster title and the brigades were renumbered 107th, 108th and 109th. As a divisional sign the Red Hand of Ulster was adopted. The 36th arrived in France in October 1915 and on 1st July 1916 its attack on the Schwaben Redoubt, Thiepval, achieved the only success that day apart from XIII Corps on the extreme right of Fourth Army.But the failure of the divisions on either flank to secure their objectives left the Ulstermen exposed and they were forced to fall back. Their casualties that day amounted to 5,100 and four VCs were won. Their memorial, the Ulster Tower, stands on the ground where they fought on that day. The division was at Messines in June 1917, fighting side by side with fellow Irishmen from the South, the 16th (Irish) Division in the capture of Wytschaete. Later in 1917 it was engaged in the Battle of Langemarck in August during Third Ypres and its last major action that year was at Cambrai where it took part in the tank attack and the capture of Bourlon Wood. When the German March 1918 offensive was launched the 36th was in the line just below St Quentin, part of the ill-fated Fifth Army. During the ensuing two weeks the division sustained 7,310 casualties, 5,845 of them missing. In April the division moved north to the Ypres Salient where it took part in the Lys battles and subsequently pursued the retreating enemy in the Advance to Victory. It fought its last battle around Ooteghem on 25 October and when the armistice came the divisions total casualties throughout the war had amounted to 32,186. Nine VCs were won.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP6916.    359 pages. Price £32. 

A History of the 38th (Welsh) Division. edited by Lt Col J E Munby. (1920)

A short history of the division's three years on the Western Front with details of staffs and commanders down to battalion level.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP4886.      86 pages. Price £15.50. 

History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914 - 1918.  by Maj F W Bewsher (1921)

Pre-war TF division which landed in France in May 1915 and fought on the Western Front during the rest of the war - Festubert, Givenchy, Somme (High Wood and Beaumont Hamel), Arras, Third Ypres, Cambrai and the Ly.  48,000 casualties, six VCs.  One of the best known divisions in the BEF.

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History of the 62nd (West Riding) Division 1914 - 1918. by Everard Wyrall.  (1924/25)

The record of a Second Line TF division which arrived in France in January 1917 and took part in the march into Germany at the end of the war.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP4673.    222 pages. Price £45. 

The History of the Second Division 1914 - 1918.  by Everard Wyrall. (1921)

A pre-war regular division and one of the original BEF.  Fought in the early 1914 battles and at Festubert, Loos, Vimy (1916), Somme, Arras and Cambrai.  Casualties 45,000 and seventeen VCs.  Succession of divisional staff officers.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP0635.    722 pages. Price £55. 

The History of the Twentieth (Light) Division.  by Capt V Inglefield. (1921)

History of a New Army division that served on the Western Front from July 1915 to the end of the war.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP3898.    319 pages. Price £38. 

The New Zealand Division 1916 - 1919. The New Zealanders in France.  by Col H Stewart. (1921)

Formed in Egypt in March 1916 the division arrived in France a month later.  It acquired an elite status, fought on the Somme, at Messines and Third Ypres.  49,000 casualties, ten VCs.  A very fine and comprehensive history.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP3901.    634 pages. Price £38. 

The Royal Naval Division.  by Douglas Jerrold.

Formed in September 1914 from Royal marines and naval reservists surplus to sea-going requirements.  Battalions named after famous admirals.  Antwerp 1914, Gallipoli, France May 1916 when it passed from Admiralty to War Office control and was numbered 63.  Western Front for the rest of the war, nearly 48,000 casualties.

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The Seventh Division 1914 - 1918.  by C T Atkinson. (1927)

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Hardback Book serial number NMP2711.    529 pages. Price £35. 

The Story of the Fifth Australian Division. by Capt A D Ellis.  (1920)

5th Australian Divisional history with Roll of Honour and list of Honours and Awards.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP388X.    468 pages. Price £38. 

The Story of the 29th Division.  A Record of Gallant Deeds.  by Stair Gillon.  (1925)

The 29th Division was the last of the regular divisions to be formed after the outbreak of war from battalions serving overseas. They came from India, Burma, China and Mauritius but only eleven regular battalions were available, so the 5th R Scots, a territorial battalion, was selected to make up the twelve. One of the artillery brigades and the divisional troops were also provided by the territorials, so although reckoned as a regular division it was in reality something of a mixture. Originally intended for the Western front, the division’s destination was changed to Gallipoli, the only regular divison to serve there. It became known as the Incomparable 29th and was to win more VCs than any other division, twenty-seven in all. The 29th fought right through the Gallipoli campaign from the initial landings on 25th April 1915 when six VCs were awarded to 1st Lancashire Fusiliers (the so-called Six VCs Before Breakfast), until finally taken off in January 1916. After a brief stopover in Egypt the division sailed for France in March 1916 and took over the Beaumont Hamel sector on the Somme front. It was here that the division attacked on 1 July incurring a loss of 5,240 casualties on that day, and its memorial can now be seen at the entrance to the Newfoundland Memorial Park. The division took part in the Arras offensive in April 1917 and later that year in the Third Ypres offensive. In November 1917 it was at Cambrai in the first mass tank attack and in the subsequent German counter-attack. The Cambrai fighting cost the division 4,400 casualties.
The principal contributors to this book are the three divisional commanders and the first GSO1, the senior staff officer, but these are supplemented by eyewitness accounts and official reports from other sources. Although the main aim of the book has been to give an accurate and intelligible account of the battles in which the 29th Division fought (and in this it has been extremely successful), gallant deeds and other incidents in and out of the line have not been overlooked. Appendices provide full citations of all the VCs and a most useful chronology of the divisions movements, including periods spent in the trenches. The maps are clear though in some cases they lack tactical detail. This is a good history, a record of gallant deeds of a division regarded as one of the elite. It formed part of the Rhine Army and in March 1919 it was renamed the Southern Division.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP5473.    276 pages. Price £38. 

Story of the 55th (West Lancashire) Division. by Rev J O Coop. (1919)

Pre-war TF division, broken up between November 1914 and March 1915.  Reformed in France January 1916, fought at several of the Somme battles, at Third Ypres and Cambrai.  35,701 casualties, twelve VCs, highest number for non regular division, includes Chavasse's VC and bar.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP2301.    184 pages. Price £38. 

The Thirty-Fourth Division 1915 - 1919.  the story of its career from Ripon to the Rhine. by Lt Col J Shakespear.  (1921).

New Army division, suffered highest casualties of any division on 1st July 1916 - 6,380 of whom 2,480 were killed.  GOC killed near Mametz.  Served on Western Front throughout the war.  Succession of commands, table summarising honours and awards (2,506 and 364 foreign), details of reinforcements, reorganisations and casualties for various periods spent in the line.

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The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli.  by Maj Bryan Cooper.  (1918)

The story of the division from the formation in Ireland in August 1914 to departure from Gallipoli for Macedonia in October 1915

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Hardback Book serial number NMP603X.    272 pages. Price £28. 

The Twenty-Third Division 1914 - 1919.  by Lt Col H R Sandilands.  (1925)

The division arrived in France at the end of August 1915 and fought on the Western Front till October 1917, when it was transferred to Italy where it remained for the rest of the war.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP6048.    389 pages. Price £38. 

10th (S) Bn The Sherwood Forresters.  The History of the Battalion During the War.  by W N Hoyte.   

The record of a Kitchener battalion that fought on the Western Front with 17th (Northern) Division from July 1915 to the armistice.  Contains list of Honours and Awards and list of battalion officers who embarked for France with the battalion.

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The 1914 Star to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.  by W H Fevyer and J W Wilson.

The Royal Navy's entitlement to the 1914 Star was almost exclusively restricted to the RN Division though personnel from a few other minor units - including, for example, Sick Berth staff from HMS Pembroke - also qualified.  To qualify one had to have served in France / Belgium between 5th August and 22nd November 1914.  This splendid work of research lists all those who were entitled to the Star, battalion by battalion, unit by unit.  There is an excellent introduction giving the background to the formation of the RN Division and some of the arguments about RN entitlement to the star (the Admiralty was initially against it), and at the end there is a section devoted to the story of the Star from the Navy's viewpoint based on selected extracts from the Admiralty case file.  Here we can read correspondence between the King, Admiralty and the War Office, Fleet and Army Orders and Press releases.  A fascinating document which shows there is more to it than meets the eye in the creation of a campaign medal.

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The 23rd London Regiment 1798 - 1919.  

Story of the 1/23rd Battalion on the Western Front and 2/23rd on Western Front, in Macedonia and Palestine.  Roll of Honour.

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1915 Campaign in France.  The battles of Aubers Ridge, Festubert and Loos considered in relation to the Field Service Regulations.  by Lieut Col A Kearsey.  (1929) 

Critical study of the planning, preparation and conduct of the Battles of Aubres Ridge, Festubert and Loos.

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The 2nd City of London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) in the Great War (1914 - 1919). by Maj W E Grey.  (1929)

The record of four battalions with Roll of Honour and summary of Honours and Awards.

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39 Months with the "Tigers" 1915 - 1918.  by D V Kelly. (1930)

Reminiscences of an officer of the 6th Leicesters who served as a staff officer of the 110th (Leicester) Brigade, at first in 37th Division and from July 1916 in 21st Division.

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8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars. Diary of the South African War, 1900 - 1902. by J W Morton, Squadron Sergeant Major.  (1905)

Daily account of the campaign as experienced by the regiment from embarkation.

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A Brigadier in France.  by Hanway R Cumming.  (1922)

Great War memoirs of an officer who served on the Western Front as a battalion commander (2 DLI) then as a commander 91st Brigade, 7th Division.  He was dismissed during the Battle of Bullecourt in May 1917 but came back in May 1918 as commander 110th Brigade.  Murdered in Ireland in March 1921 while commanding the Kerry Brigade.

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Acts of Gallantry.  by Lambton Young.  (1872)

Lambton Young's original works gives a detailed account of every deed of bravery in saving life from drowning in all parts of the world between 1830 and 1871 for which the Royal Humane Society (RHS) gold and silver medals and clasps were awarded.  This is still an invaluable reference for anyone with an interest in lifesaving awards; and although it was reprinted in small numbers a few years ago, it has always been a difficult volume to obtain.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP5149.    328 pages. Price £28. 

Acts of Gallantry Volume 2.  by W H Fevyer. 

Lists Royal Humane Society's Silver and Stanhope Medals and clasps for the period 1871 to 1950.  With full citations, taken from the published records of the society.  It includes where possible the occupation of the recipient and the date of the incident.  Arranged in case number order and complete with index.  The Royal Humane Society awards were given for acts of gallantry all over the world and the citations listed in this work are a fitting tribute to both the recipients and the Royal Humane Society.  They cover the period of the two world wars and the Boer War.  Through the citations can be seen the progression of transport from the horse to modern day transport, the emancipation of women, the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, and indeed Living History.  This book continues the work of Lamvton Young C.E., Acts of Gallantry, which covers the years 1830 to 1871.

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Acts of Gallantry Volume 3.  Compiled by Bill Fevyer & Craig Barclay. 

This third volume in the series covers silver and Stanhope medals in the period from 1951 to 1995, and also the citations for all bronze clasps awarded since their introduction in 1869

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An Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Ninety-Fourth Regiment "Scotch Brigade" From 1800 - 1869.  by Henry Stooks Smith.  (1869)

Service records of the officers of the 94th Regt of Foot from 1800 to 1869.  Names are in alphabetical order.

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The Adventures of Serjeant Benjamin Miller, whilst serving in the 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery 1796 to 1815. 

The author of these memoirs was born on 2 April 1776 and enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 9th December 1795 for 'unlimited service'.  He was promoted Bombardier in Oct 1804, Corporal in Feb 1809 and Sjt in Oct 1811.  He was discharged on 1st April 1815 with a pension of 1s 6l/2d a day; the soldier of 1914 was paid 1/- a day!.  He died at Melbury Osmund, in 1865 in his 88th year. His service took him first to Gibraltar April 1796 and two years later he was in the expedition to take Miinorca and subsequently returned to Gibraltar.  His next spell of active service was in Egypt where he arrived in 1801 and was soon in action against the French and describes the fighting vividly.  He was wounded in a French cavalry charge on the guns, cut with the sword in both legs; a counterattack by the Black Watch killed every Frenchman who had got into the battery.  This is a remarkable story of service in the army during the Napoleonic wars - in and out of battle.  He was in the Peninsula and took part in the retreat to Corunna, an interesting piece of history, as seen by a British soldier.

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The Afghan Campaigns of 1878 1880 Biographical Division.  by Sidney H Shadbolt. (1882)

Biographical Division, containing a rapid sketch of the war, maps, illustrating the operations and the movements of the forces, one hundred and forty photographs of officers who lost their lives in the campaigns and of recipients of the Victoria Cross, with memoirs prepared from materials furnished by their relations and surviving comrades.

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The Afghan Campaigns of 1878 1880 Historical Division.  by Sidney H Shadbolt. (1882)

Historical Division, containing summaries of the movements in the field of the various regiments which were engaged, and separate records of every British Officer who was employed in the war

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The Natal Medal Roll 1906. 

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Ambushes and Surprises.  by Col G B Malleson.  (1895)

A description of some of the most famous instances of the leading into ambush and the surprises of armies, from the time of Hannibal to the period of the Indian Mutiny

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African General Service Medals.  by R B Magor. 

First published over 15 years ago and long out of print, this is still the only work to deal in detail with the campaign medals of West, East and Central Africa.  This completely revised and reset edition contains much new information and almost 100 additional pages.  A summary of awards shows the eventual distribution of the clasps and the numbers awarded to participating units.  Many European recipients are mentioned by name.  Not only has a comprehensive general index been added to the new edition, but also quick reference lists of ships and clasps.  No medal collector or student of African history can afford to be without this new work.

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Hardback Book serial number NMP0090.    280 pages. Price £9.95. 

The Africa General Service Medal to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines.  by W H Fevyer & J M  Wilson. (1991)

Based on the Naval Roll held at The Public Record Office reference ADM.171.  This volume contains a complete listing of all A.G.S. medals awarded to the Naval and Marine Force.  Each ship is listed separately.  Duplicate and returned medals have also been noted.  Messina earthquake medal recipients shown.  Selected Naval Despatches are included for a fuller insight.

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American Decorations 1862 - 1926.  Compiled in the Office of the Adjutant General of the Army and published by the order of the Secretary of War.  (1927)

A Complete List of Awards of the Congressional Medal of Honour, the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) and the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM).  Awarded under Authority of the Congress of the USA 1862 - 1926.  Details on each recipient include place of birth, place of residence on entry into the service, where the award was won with citation and number of the General Order authorising the award.  Names are arranged alphabetically, and in the case of posthumous awards name and relationship of the next of kin receiving the award are given.  Foreign holders of the DSC and DSM are listed by countries.

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The Annals of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps : Vol 1 "The Royal Americans" 1755 - 1802.  by Lieut Col Lewis Butler.

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The Annals of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps : Vol 2 "The Green Jacket" 1803 - 1830.  by Lieut Col Lewis Butler.

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The Annals of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps : Vol 3 "The K.R.R.C." 1831 - 1871.  by Lieut Col Lewis Butler.

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The Annals of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps : Vol 4 "The K.R.R.C." 1872 - 1913.  by Maj Gen Sir Steuart Hare.

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The Annals of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps : Vol 5 "The Great War".  by Maj Gen Sir Steuart Hare.

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The Annals of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps : Appendix Volume - Uniform, Armament and Equipment.  by S M Milne and Maj Gen Astley Terry. (1913)

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Army of the Sutlej 1845 - 6 Casualty Roll.  From the India Office Records.

The list of casualties has been compiled from the Sutlej Medal Rolls held at the India Office Library.  The list is by regiments and gives the nature of the casualty, date and battle in which incurred: Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal or Sobraon.  Those invalided home are also identified.

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Battle Honours Awarded for the Great 
War.  

Final list of battle honours awarded to each regiment as published under Army Order 55 of February 1925.  This order directed that "no further submissions concerning the Great War battle honours will be made".  Those to be borne on the Colours or Appointments are shown in bold print.

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Army Regulations (India) 1913. Volume VII. Dress.  by the Government of India, Army Department.

An interesting historical document containing the orders of the Government of India on the Dress of the Army in India, issued under the authority of Major-General W R Birdwood (just over two years later he would be commanding the Anzacs at Gallipoli).  These instructions were for the British Army in India as well as for the Indian Army and cover every aspect of dress for both officers and men, general dress and regimental dress, dress for personal appointments (eg equerry, ADC), instructions for wearing decorations and much more.  Descriptions of uniforms, facings, badges, and devices are given for all regiments.  The date of issue is January 1913 and so we see, paraded before us as it were, corps by corps, regiment by regiment the old Indian Army that went to war in 1914.

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Art of Attack and the Development of Weapons.  by H S Cowper. (1906)

This most unusual book is subtitled Being a Study in the Development of weapons and Appliances of Offence from the Earliest Times to the Age of Gunpowder.  it surveys, in considerable detail and with numerous drawings and illustrations, the art and means of aggression developed by man beginning with the bare hand or fist and then the fist reinforced by such appliances as the cestus of Roman times and the knuckleduster of the more enlightened age.  From here it moves on to simple, unshafted, hand held weapons designed for bruising and ripping - clubs, stones etc.  The next stage is 'reinforcing the arm', the development of hafted weapons and attachment of weapon heads to shafts - the axe and adze type and the ball and thong such as the bola.  These are categorized as striking weapons.  Then come the pointed weapons - flint and metal daggers, spears, tridents and the like.  So we are taken on a stage by stage journey through the whole range of weaponry - grappling hooks, cutting weapons, throwing spears, javelins, harpoons, catapults, blowpipes and the means of throwing or discharging them.  The sheer variety of means of dealing aggressively with your opponent, when they are spelled out in detail, is remarkable, and there are many odd looking weapons illustrated.  In the detailed study and analysis of its subject this book can have no rival.

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A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army.  by Arthur S White

Revised edition of Arthur White's much sought after catalogue of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army.  This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint.

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The Ashanti War (1874): A Narrative Prepared from the Official Document by Permission of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley (Two Volumes).  by Capt Henry Brackenbury RA (1874) 

Henry Brackenbury was a brilliant staff officer - one of the "Garnet Ring" that surrounded Sir Garnet Wolseley.  This is a very serious and detailed account of the campaign - containing a lot of background and logistics.  Brackenbury claims for his book "all the accuracy of an official account".

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Artillery's Astrologers.  A History of British Survey and Mapping on the Western Front 1914 - 1918. by Peter Chasseaud.

A4 Format, case - bound in blocked cloth with dust wrapper.  Over 500 pages, including photos, maps and diagrams.

The definitive operational history of British field survey organisation, units & personnel on the Western Front.  The book covers Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery Survey, all aspects of map production for the BEF, use of maps and technological progress in 1914 - 1918.  Geographical Section of the General Staff (M14), Ordnance Survey, Ranging Section, Ranging & Survey Section, Maps & Printing Sections, Printing Company, Topographical Sections, Field Survey Companies & Battalions, Overseas Branch of the Ordnance Survey, Corps Topo Sections, Observation Groups, and Sound Ranging Sections.  Trench maps, barrage maps, target maps, topographical maps, hostile battery maps, trigonometrical and topographical survey, air survey map compilation, drawing and printing, sound ranging, flash spotting, battery survey, predicted fire.

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Artists Rifles.  Regimental Roll of Honour and War Record 1914 - 1919.  compiled and edited by S Stagoll Higham.

Service details of some 10,000+ 1914 -18 officers who passed through the ranks of the Artist's & a short account of the 1/Artists in the line, July 1917-armistice.

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The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence.  A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns.  edited by George Nugent Banks.

Sergeant Lawrence's memoir is one of the most important sources of information on life in the ranks during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Biographia Navalis; or Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain.  From the Year 1660 to the Present Times.  by John Charnock (1797)

The only word to describe this work is monumental.  It is a record of the services of more than 2200 naval officers across a span of nearly 140 years, drawn from the most authentic sources (according to the title page) and disposed in a chronological arrangement.  Sometimes only one or two lines constitute the entry, at other times there are several pages (Earl St Vincent takes ten pages).  They are set out on a year by year basis, and within each year the names are arranged alphabetically.  Charnock intended this to be a four volume work but that wasn't enough (V and VI) and these were subtitled the First and Second Volumes of the Continuation.  Each of the six volumes has its own index.

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Battle Honours of the British Army (1911).  by C B Norman.

Here is a classic reference book, first published in 1911, which gives details of army battle honours from Tangiers, 1662, to the years of the Boer War.  It recalls the glories of regiments which are now long gone, of famous battles like Blenheim, Mysore, Corunna, Sevastopol and Khartoum.  Each section contains brief accounts of every major engagement of the campaign with tables showing the casualties - officers and men - killed and wounded.  The whole work is supplemented with full indexes, as well as maps and illustrations.  This is a work which will be of continuing value to military historians and enthusiasts everywhere.

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Billie : The Nevill Letters : 1914 - 1916.  by Ruth Elwin Harris

Based on over 200 letters to his family from the man who led his men over the top on 1st July 1916, kicking footballs.  Captain Wilfred Nevill was serving with 8 E Surreys and was killed that day; he is buried at Carny.  Thirty b/w photos and three sketch maps.  This correspondence forms one of the best collections of First World War letters held by the IWM.

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British Public Schools War Memorials.  by C F Kernot, BA : Forewords by Admiral Jellicoe and Field Marshal Methuen. (1927)

This volume is rather different to the majority in that it covers more than one war memorial.  It is a well illustrated book covering the majority of British Public Schools whose pupils made the supreme sacrifice.  In this instance it is the memorials, that are in many guises, from plaques to plinths and crosses to chapels, rather than the fallen, which are featured.

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The Bond of Sacrifice : Vol I August - December 1914.  A Biographical Record of British Officers who Fell in the Great War. by Col A Clutterbuck in association with Col Dooner and Comm C A Denison (1915)

The first volume of a projected series to record the names of the fallen.  This first volume covers the first four months of the war with a potted biography of each officer accompanied by a photo portrait.  The compilers could not keep up with the sheer enormity of the casualties as the war progressed and the series was never completed.

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Paperback Book serial number NMP2255.    459 pages. Price £2