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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.
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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. Or,
Volume II only, Serial number NMP8120A. 262 pages. Price
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Serial number NMP8120B. 302 pages. Price £22.00. UK
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The
Ninth (Queen's Royal) Lancers 1715 - 1903 by Frank H Reynard
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Paperback Book serial number NMP9TH. 258
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1232.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6420.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2050.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2662.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1895.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1119.
331 pages. Price £22. |
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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
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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
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The Seventh
Division. by C T Atkinson. (1927)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1194.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2069.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP0953.
11
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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
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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
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6439.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6964.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5831.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1089.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5823.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2077.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4096.
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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
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP2611.
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The Seventh Division
1914 - 1918. by C T Atkinson. (1927)
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Hardback Book serial number NMP2711.
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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.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP407X.
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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
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7504.
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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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184 pages. Price
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP0503.
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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.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6404.
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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.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6412.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4789.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP2347.
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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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Srial number NMP4878. 159 pages. Price
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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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Serial number NMP1321. 272 pages. Price
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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
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1852.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4835.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP2614.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1054.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1046.
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The Natal Medal Roll
1906.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2190.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4479.
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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
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1038.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1224.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4452.
379
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4460.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4541.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP455X.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4568.
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4576.
52
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP4630.
49
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1127.
80 pages. Price
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP0759.
96 pages. Price
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP0848.
356
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1550.
331 pages. Price £12.95. |
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP3995.
367 pages. Price £38. |
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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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Serial number NMP2377. Over 500 pages. Price
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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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1534.
596 pages. Price £22. |
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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Paperback Book serial number NMP2541.
250 pages. Price £14.50. |
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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Six volume set. serial number NMP1828.
2910 pages in total. Price £85. |
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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Paperback Book serial number NMP259X.
528 pages. Price £14.95. |
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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Paperback Book serial number NMP5556.
232 pages. Price £11.50. |
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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Paperback Book serial number NMP1380.
324 pages. Price £22. |
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 £24. |
The
Bond of Sacrifice : Vol 2. 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 second volume of a projected series to record the
names of the fallen. This volume covers the first six months of 1915
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 NMP2263.
531 pages. Price £28. |
A
Book of Remembrance 1914 1918 (Watford Grammar School)
War service record of Old Boys and Masters of Watford
Grammar School.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP424X.
64 pages. Price £8.50. |
The
Book of the Machine Gun 1917. byLongstaff, Maj F V Atteridge, A Hilliard
This book is a very important text for any student of
the development of the machine gun, and contains details of the history of
this weapon from its inception to the mid point of the first World
War. The evolution of the machine gun is detailed, followed by
examples of the use of the weapon in war, and particularly in the
Russo-Japanese War. Tactics are examined in detail, both from the
historical point of view and tactics of the First World War, an important
part of the book. Training is covered, particularly from the British
Army side, and the relevant chapter has much of great value in it.
Perhaps the most important part of the book however is the examination of
the machine guns of the armies then at war. There is in addition a
complete chapter on machine guns in the German Army, which is of specific
importance to any study of the tactics on the western front. The
book is illustrated with a series of good photographs and a number of line
drawings of both early and current machine guns, and there is also a large
scale drawing of the Vickers gun.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5599.
Price £22. |
The
Book of the Seventh Service Battalion : The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from Tipperary to Ypres. by C A Cooper Walker. (1920)
The battalion's experiences from formation in October
1914 to August 1917, when it amalgamated with the 8th Bn during Third
Ypres.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2697.
141 pages. Price £15.50. |
The
Border Regiment in the Great War. by Col H C Wylly
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5408.
272 pages. Price £22. |
The
British Expedition to Abyssinia. by Capt Henry M Hozier (1869)
This account of the 1867/68 campaign is by an officer of
the 3rd Dragoon Guards, one of the regiments involved, and in the
introduction he states clearly that his aim has everywhere been
impartiality; his object truth.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0627.
271 pages. Price £11.95. |
British
Regiments 1914 - 1918. by Brig E A James.
Valuable source that lists each WWI battalion,
formations they served in, dates formed & where & when they
served.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1976.
140 pages. Price £17.95. |
British
Red Cross and Order of St John Enquiry List (No 14) 1917. (1917)
List of wounded, missing and killed about whom enquiries
have been made up to and including 20th July 1917. Australians and
Canadians included.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5645.
494 pages. Price £14.50. |
A
British Rifle Man: the Journals & Correspondence of Major George
Simmons, Rifle Brigade during the Peninsular War & Campaign of
Waterloo. by Lt Colonel Willoughby Verner, The Rifle Brigade. (1899)
George Simmons was born in Beverley in 1785. He
joined the Lincoln Militia in 1805 as Assistant Surgeon and transferred in
1809 to the 95th Rifles. He served in the 1st Battalion with
distinction. He retired in 1845 and died in Jersey in 1858.
Simmons was a fine officer, and this book is a classic.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP3960.
386 pages. Price £14.50. |
Brodick
- Arran and the great War 1914 - 1918. by James C Inglis. (1919)
Account of war service of men and women from Brodick,
Isle of Arran and list of other Arran men on active service.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP3774.
122 pages. Price £8.95. |
Bygone
Pilgrimage. Amiens Before and During the War. (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1615.
56 pages. Price £4.95. |
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Pilgrimage. Battlefields of the Marne 1914. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0686.
264 pages. Price £9.95. |
Bygone
Pilgrimage. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession. An Illustrated
Guide to the Battlefields 1914 - 1918. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0678.
176 pages. Price £6.95. |
Bygone
Pilgrimage. Lille Before and During the War. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1658.
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Pilgrimage. Soisons Before and During the War. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1623.
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Pilgrimage. The Americans in the Great War Vol I. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1674.
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Pilgrimage. The Americans in the Great War Vol II. by Michelin
(1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1682.
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Pilgrimage. The Americans in the Great War Vol III. by Michelin
(1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1690.
112 pages. Price £5.95. |
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Pilgrimage. The Somme Volume I 1916 - 1917. An Illustrated Guide to
the Battlefields 1914 - 1918. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0694.
136 pages. Price £6.95. |
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Pilgrimage. The Somme Volume 2 1918. An Illustrated Guide to the
Battlefields 1914 - 1918. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0708.
128 pages. Price £4.95. |
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Pilgrimage. Verdun and the Battles for its Possession. An
Illustrated Guide to the Battlefields 1914 - 1918. by Michelin
(1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP066X.
112 pages. Price £6.95. |
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Pilgrimage. Ypres and the Battles for Ypres. by Michelin (1919)
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1666.
128 pages. Price £5.95. |
The
Campaign of 1882 in Egypt. by Colonel J F Maurice (1887)
Prepared in the Intelligence Branch of the War Office
and originally published in 1887, this book gives a detailed account of
the campaign, which was a rapid affair, commencing with the bombardment
and subsequent occupation of Alexandria in July; the near defeat of the
British advance force by the Egyptians at Kassassin, and terminating with
the British victory at Tel-El-Kebir on September 13th 1882. The
eight appendices offer considerable reference material including: an
alphabetical list of all British and Indian Army Officers engaged, with
their services, honours, medals and decorations for the campaign.
Regimental lists of killed and wounded for all actions, a detailed Order
of Battle. Statement of troops (Regimentally) conveyed to Egypt and
the Transports (named) in which they proceeded. A further appendix
has been added to the original text which contains a nominal roll of all
ranks killed and wounded at the Battle of Tel-El-Kebir. A
short-lived, but lively, campaign.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1011.
228 pages. Price £9.95. |
"Cast
Iron" Sixth. A History of the 6th Battalion - London
Regiment. by E G Godfrey.
The 6th Battalion, London Regiment, was raised in 1859
by the celebrated artist, Cruickshank, with the title 24th Battalion,
Surrey Regiment, a unit of the Volunteer Corps formed in that same
year. Four years later the title was changed to the 48th Battalion,
the Middlesex Regiment. After another couple of changes the
battalion became, in 1908 when the Territorial Force was created, the 6th
(City of London) Battalion The London Regiment (City of London Rifles) -
to give its full title. At the outbreak of war the battalion was in
the 2nd London Brigade, 1st London Division, and at the end of August a
duplicate or second line battalion was formed, and the two battalions were
named1/6th and 2/6th. In November 1914 the 1/6th was transferred to
4th London Brigade, 2nd London Division, later 140th Brigade, 47th
Division with which it remained till January 1918. It landed in
France in March 1915 and fought its first major action at Loos, and
subsequently on the Somme, Messines, Third Ypres and Cambrai. At the
end of January 1918 the battalion was disbanded and some 260 officers and
men joined the 2/6th, then in 174th Brigade, 58th Division, which now
became 6th Battalion. 2/6th arrived in France in January 1917 with
58th Division and its first major action was at Bullecourt.
Later it took part in Third Ypres battles before absorbing a draft from
the disbanded 1/6th and becoming 6th Battalion, which remained in 58th
Division to the end of the war. This history begins with the names
of divisional and brigade commanders under whom the battalion served,
followed by the Honours list where recipients are named except for Mention
in Despatches where totals are given. The early history of the
battalion is then narrated and so to the Great War which takes up the bulk
of the book. In addition to details of actions fought, in each
chapter emphasis has been placed on some particular aspect of military
training or operations, such as communications between front and rear,
transport difficulties, individual exploits and so on, while to facilitate
reading, at the head of each page appears the number of the battalion
being discussed. The book ends with the Roll of Honour (1050 dead)
and an index.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1704.
280 pages. Price £22. |
The
Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish regiment From 1684 - 1902.
by Lieut Col G le M Greton. (1911)
An account of 200 years of service in all quarters of
the globe with many useful appendices.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2395.
462 pages. Price £24.95. |
The
Cape of Good Hope General Service Medal Roll 1880 - 1897.
The medal, which was issued in silver only, was
instituted in 1881. Almost all of these medals were issued with one
or more clasps, only about 10 being issued unclasped. The reserve
design shows the arms of Cape Colony. Some 5,200 were issued in all
for three risings, each commemorated by a clasp. That for "Transkei",
the rarest of the three, was awarded for operations during a small rising
in Tembuland and Griqualand Eastin 1880-81. The clasp for "Basutoland"
was awarded for service in the more extensive operations in that area,
several major engagements taking place. The last clasp, that for
"Bechuanaland", was awarded, after a lapse of 16 years from the
first two clasps, for an uprising amongst several tribes. The
fighting took place in 1896-97, and it was only by the employment of
considerable forces that the natives were defeated. It is worth
noting that, apart from 15 British troops, all the awards of this medal
were to colonial units, many of which were small. The total issue
for each clasp is approximately: "Transkei" 1070, "Basutoland"
2150, "Bechuanaland" 2580. Only 23 medals were issued with
all three clasps and medals with two clasps are very scarce. The
naming is in thin, faint block capitals, and the ribbon is of dark blue
with a central yellow stripe.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2182.
85 pages. Price £9.95. |
Casualties
Sustained by British Army in the Korean War 1950 - 1953.
The Lists of killed, wounded and missing by
regiments. Compiled from lists published by The Times newspaper
during the war.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0104.
85pages. Price £9.95. |
Centurions
of a Century. Among which are many who have soldiered in the Twelth
or The Suffolk Regiment of Foot. by Lieut Col C H Gardiner. (1911)
An account of some of Britain's campaigns, battles and
leaders from Marlborough to the end of Victoria's reign
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2476.
500 pages. Price £14.95. |
The
China War Medal 1900 : to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines. by W H
Fevyer and J W Wilson. (1986)
For the first time, a complete record meticulously
compiled of all medals awarded to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines for the
Boxer Rebellion in 1900, also including the following:: Legation Guard/
New South Wales Defence Force/ Victorian Naval Defence Force / South
Australian Defence Force / Royal Indian Marine / Naval Depot Wei-Hai-Wai /
Medals analysed and listed by bars / All no bar medals included.
returned and duplicate medals listed in full / Medals presented by HM The
King noted / Full and detailed Casualty Roll compiled from various sources
/ Selected Naval Despatches are included for a fuller insight into the
part played by Naval Forces in the China War of 1900.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1933.
220 pages. Price £9.95. |
City
of Coventry Roll of the Fallen. The Great War 1914 -
1918.
Alphabetical list of all Coventry men who died in the
Great War, with dates of birth, enlistment, and death and places of birth
and residence.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4355.
371 pages. Price £28. |
Clothing
Regulations 1914. (1927)
Issued in May 1914 under the auspices of Asquith, this
is Part I only, but combines Parts I and II of the 1894 edition -
General Regulations and Details of Clothing and Necessaries, dealing with
similar subjects and providing tables showing scales of issue and dress
distinctions.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0015.
206 pages. Price £7.95. |
Diary
of the 9th (Q.R.) Lancers During the South African Campaign 1899 to
1902. by Lieut Col F F Colvin and Capt E R Gordon. (1904)
The 9th Lancers were stationed in Muttra, India, in
September 1899 when they were warned for service in S Africa where war
with the Boers was imminent. The Regiment sailed from Bombay on
24/25th September in three ships, one of which encountered a fierce
storm between Durban and Cape Town resulting in 83 horses and nine mules
being killed or washed overboard. This storm is vividly described,
the carnage among the animals on deck was appalling as they were flung
about among the wreckage of the wooden stables. the contents are set
out in diary form with dates in the margin against the narrative which
covers all matters affecting the regiment - actions. casualties.
reinforcements, extracts from Army, divisional etc orders and other
correspondence, strength states, awards, all are duly noted. The
first entry is for 8th September 1899 when the Regiment was ordered to
mobilize and prepare for active service and the final entry is for 9th
April 1902 when the Regiment arrived back in India after some two and a
half years on active service. It saw plenty of action - at
Kimberley, in the Transvaal and Orange Free State and River Colony; clasps
to the Queen's South Africa Medal gained by the Regiment as a whole were:
Belmont, Modder River, Releief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg,
Diamond Hill and Witterbergen. Casualty details are given at the end
of the book, 225 in all of whom 45 died in action and 26 of disease or
from accident. There is also a complete list of officers who served
with the Regiment during the campaign, a list Awards and Mentions in
Despatches, and finally a record of distances covered - a total of 8,520
miles.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2379.
304 pages. Price £14.95. |
College
of St Columba Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918. (1919)
Nominal Roll of Fellows, Masters and past pupils of the
College with unit in which served; casualties and decorations are noted.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4282.
39pages. Price £8.50. |
The
Colonials in South Africa 1899 - 1902: Their Record, Based on the
Despatches. by John Stirling (1904)
A record similar to the author's earlier volume Our
Regiments in South Africa. A directory of Colonial Volunteer Corps
and their work in the South African campaign. the information is
drawn from official despatches, other reliable published accounts and from
private accounts furnished by officers in the field.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2778.
497 pages. Price £14.95. |
Our
Regiments in South Africa 1899 - 1902. by John Stirling (1903)
A directory showing the movements and engagements of
British regiments during the South African campaign. The information
is drawn from the chief despatches of the campaign, from regimental
records and from unofficial sources. Records of the Royal Engineers,
army Service Corps, Medical Corps, Chaplain's Department, Ordnance and
other departments, are included.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0279.
532 pages. Price £14.95. |
Commando
Gallantry Awards of World War II. by G A Brown (1991)
A comprehensive record of the gallantry of a force that
numbered some 10,000 at its peak and fought in virtually every theatre of
war in actions ranging from small engagements to pitched battles.
Here, with appropriate historical background and sketch maps are the
details of 10 VCs, 32DSOs, 135 MCs, 46 DCMs and 289 MMs, with
full citations where published in the London Gazette. Many could not
be publicised because of the nature of the operation and such details have
only recently become available to the general public.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0120.
Price £12.95. |
Complete
Despatches of Lord French 1914 - 1916. (1917)
This book contains the eight despatches written by
French between September 1914 (Mons, the Retreat and Le Cateau) and
October 1915 (Loos). They contain lists of those mentioned in
Despatches
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Paperback Book serial number NMP0988.
607 pages. Price £24.95. |
Complete
Guide to the Hotchkiss Machine Gun. by 'An Instructor' (1917)
The French designed Hotchkiss machine gun was officially
adopted by the British Army as a light machine gun to serve alongside the
Lewis gun. However, the Lewis went to infantry units, whilst the
Hotchkiss was issued to cavalry and armoured units. This book is
extremely well illustrated with photographs and line drawings, covering
all aspects of the weapon. The gun is described completely, and
anyone who has read the pamphlet will be able to use a Hotchkiss
gun. The interesting feed mechanism is shown in the photographs as
is the ammunition strip and its box. Care and cleaning are
prescribed so that the weapon remained able to fire under all
conditions. There is also detailed instruction on all possible
stoppages and the immediate action to clear such problems. An
important section in this book gives a tactical insight into the use of
the weapon as experienced during the First World War and shows how machine
guns should be viewed in the mind of the user.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6269.
112 pages. Price £8.50. |
Craven's
Part in the Great War. by John T Clayton (1919)
Roll of Honour of all those from the Craven district of
N Yorks who died with biographical details and portrait photos plus list
of Awards.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4738.
391 pages. Price £22. |
Footprints
of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment. August 1914 to November 1918.
by John Milne (1935).
A pre-war TF battalion which went to France with 46th
Division in February 1915. Its worst day, 13th October 1915 was at
Hohenzollern Redoubt where casualties numbered 473 during a battalion
attack. High point was the crossing of St Quentin Canal 29th
September 1918.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2034.
158 pages. Price £14.95. |
Denny
and Dunipace Roll of Honour. The Great War 1914 - 1918.
The names of 902 men of Denny and Dunipace who served in
the Great War, showing those who died and those honoured.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4347.
116 pages. Price £8.50. |
Devonshire
Regiment 1914 - 1918. by C T Atkinson (1926)
Raised in 1685 as Colonel the Duke of Beaufort’s
Musketeers the Devons became the 11th Regiment of Foot in 1751 when
infantry regiments of the line were numbered instead of being named after
the colonel of the moment. In 1782 it was given a county association as
11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot, and in 1881 it became The
Devonshire Regiment. As a matter of interest the 20th of Foot was given
the title East Devonshire in 1782, but in 1881 this became The Lancashire
Fusiliers (it was not just the Lord who moved in mysterious ways!). The
regiment earned the nickname ‘The Bloody Eleventh’ when they incurred
nearly 70% casualties at the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 in the Peninsular
War.
When war broke out in 1914 the regiment consisted of two regular
battalions, a Special Reserve and four Territorial battalions; by the end
of the war the total was twenty-nine. This history contains the account of
the operations of those battalions which took an active part in the war
which earned them two VCs and sixty battle honours at a cost of 5,787
dead. They served on the Western Front, in Italy, Macedonia, Egypt,
Palestine, India and in Mesopotamia. The author is among the foremost of
the Great War divisional and regimental historians and this book is
typical of his standard of writing and composition. He has provided a
continuous narrative in a chronological order, bringing in the various
battalions as they came onto the stage in the relevant theatre of war. He
has made use of war diaries, not only of the battalions but also, where
appropriate of brigades and divisions. He was also able to make use of
collected accounts of various actions and experiences of those who took
part in them, giving the point of view of the man in the trenches. One
third of the book, some 250 pages, contains the complete list of honours
and awards, including Mention in Despatches, and the Roll of Honour,
listed alphabetically by battalions.
On 17 May 1958 the old regiment passed into history when it amalgamated
with the Dorsets to become The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment.
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Book serial number NMP5474.
742 pages.
Price £22. |
The
Diary of a Yeomanry MO (Medical Officer). Egypt, Gallipoli,
Palestine and Italy. by Capt O Teichman. (1921)
The author, a Territorial medical officer in the RAMC, was
attached to the Worcestershire Yeomanry (Queen’s Own Worcestershire
Hussars) in 1914. The regiment was part of the 1st South Midland Brigade,
1st Mounted Division, but within a month of the outbreak of war a 2nd
Mounted Division was formed and the 1st S Midland Brigade joined it. In
April 1915 the division went to Egypt and in May the brigades were
numbered as Mounted Brigades with 1st S Midland becoming 1st Mounted
Brigade. In August 1915 the division was ordered to proceed, dismounted,
to Gallipoli and Teichman went with his regiment and into action. The
division suffered heavy losses at Scimitar Hill (21 Aug) and this attack
is described in some detail. A week later, on Chocolate Hill, Suvla, he
was wounded by shrapnel and evacuated home. In one entry he describes how
a large packet of maps (in very short supply) delivered to brigade HQ
turned out to be maps of Cromer, Sheringham and King’s Lynn districts
where they had been stationed in 1914. He rejoined his regiment at Mudros
in early November from where they returned to Egypt to the Canal zone, but
at christmas Teichman went down with enteric fever and was again evacuated
to the UK. By May he was back at duty (his brigade had been renumbered
5th) and during operations in the Sinai Desert was again wounded, at the
battle of Qatia (5 Aug 1916) which kept him out of action till the end of
October. The diarist takes us through the rest of the Sinai campaign and,
in March 1917, into Palestine, first with Murray (battles of Gaza) and
then, from June 1917, with Allenby, fighting as part of the Australian
Mounted Division. At Huj, on 8 November, he rode close behind his regiment
as it took part in a charge against some 2,000 Turkish infantry who were
protecting guns manned by Austrians and Germans; the infantry retreated
and the guns were taken. The marvellous descriptions of living and
fighting in the desert include an incident involving a ten foot black
mamba and attempts to kill it using chloroform (corps HQ had asked for
dead but undamaged snakes for antidotes to snakebites). He left the Middle
East in June 1918 for leave in the UK after which he was posted to Italy
where he joined 22nd Brigade (7th Division) in October for the last month
of the war.
Teichman ended the war with a DSO, MC, Croix de Guerre, Croci di Guerra
and three mentions in despatches. This is a well-written book by one who
knows his military history - a most informative account of war in the
desert.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7437.
284 pages. Price £11.95. |
The
Diary of Colonel Bayly, 12th Regiment. 1796 - 1830 (Seringapatam
1799). (1896)
Bayly was commissioned in the 12th Foot (later The Suffolk
Regiment) in 1796 at the age of 16 and served with the regiment for the
next 34 years. As a young subaltern he obviously had an eye for the girls,
in fact his descriptions could suggest he was the original wolf-whistler.
He got the wrong girl when stationed on the Isle of Wight; her two hefty
brothers gave him a hammering and kicking and threw him into the street
where two passing soldiers picked him up. No doubt they dined out on that
story. Duelling was another feature of his time and in one Bayly he fought
over some trifling incident, he fired wide but his opponent, only eight
feet away, took careful aim but his pistol misfired, whereupon our hero
called out: “Captain Crawford, that cannot be considered as a shot,
therefore fire again!” What a splendid sportsman! What a complete idiot!
Fortunately Crawford declined the offer, otherwise there may have been no
memoirs for us to read. Much of Bayly’s service was in India and in one
passage he describes his baggage for six months’ field service: two
bullocks laden with biscuits, two with wine and brandy, two with his
trunks, four for the marquee and in addition two personal servants and six
coolies to carry his furniture, in all ten bullocks and eight servants
most of whom were accompanied by their entire families - grandparents,
uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and whole generations of children; and
Bayly was just one young subaltern in an expedition 20,000 strong.
His descriptions of active service in India are very vivid, none more so
than the campaign against Tippoo Sahib and the bloody fighting for
Seringapatam. Of particular interest in this battle is Bayly’s account
of the behaviour of Colonel Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington)
commanding the 33rd Foot whose attack on a wood was “repulsed with great
slaughter.” Apparently Wellesley took to flight, abandoning his command
leaving it to his 2IC, Major Shea, who didn’t know what had happened to
his CO. The general opinion was that Wellesley should have been court-martialled
but his brother was Governor General of India and that, according to Bayly,
saved his skin. Bayly’s final posting was to Gibraltar in September 1828
where he assumed command of the regiment. He arrived just in time for the
outbreak of yellow fever, a plague that took 4,000 lives in the first six
weeks and ran on for three months. Bayly finally retired in 1830 and
leaving Gibraltar he gave it a real soldier’s farewell, bidding “adieu
to that hot-bed of vice, filth and disease, the barren rock of
Gibraltar.” This is a highly entertaining memoir.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7474.
282 pages. Price £12.95. |
The
Diary of the 61st Battery Canadian Field Artillery 1916 - 1919.
This slim volume was originally published as a paperback,
primarily for the men of the battery. It is, according to the foreword, a
partial record of the daily activities of the battery, written from day to
day under circumstances and conditions of a widely varying kind, all
demanding brevity - no room for literary excellence. The battery came into
existence on 3 April 1916 at Lethbridge, Alberta. It did its training at
Petawawa Camp and embarked for England on 11 September 1916 where it was
located in Witley Camp. It was now in 14th Artillery Brigade 5th Canadian
Division. All this is narrated as an introduction (with dates) to the main
part which begins on 21 August 1917 when the brigade embarked for France,
and at this point the complete nominal roll of the battery (7 officers and
92 other ranks) is given. The diary now begins and thereafter there is an
entry for every day- even as brief as “1st September. Raining. Cleaning
up” - right through to 4th March 1919. Lists at the end include the Roll
of Honour (six dead twenty wounded), Honours and Awards, nominal roll of
reinforcements, officers and other ranks struck off strength (other than
casualties) and reason, and finally the nominal roll of the battery on 11
November 1918. A picture of daily life of a field battery on the Western
Front and one that will certainly have awakened the memories of its
members. For their benefit a space has been left between daily entries for
them to record any of their own experiences
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7453.
100 pages. Price £7.50. |
Gallantry.
by Sir Arnold Wilson and Capt J H F McEwen.
The dedication of this book will jolt the memories of
those old enough to remeber 60 years back: it is to the crew of HM
Submarine Thetis which sank with a loss of ninety-nine lives during
acceptance trials in Liverpool Bay on 1st June 1939. In this book
the authors set out to summarize the existing practice of the State and of
public and other bodies in this or other countries in rewarding acts of
gallantry whether in peace or in war. It is interesting that in
discussing British gallantry awards they make a case for a Conspicuous
Gallantry Cross to replace the DSC, MC and DFC as an award for officers of
the three Services; this ward was actually instituted in 1995, but for all
ranks of all three services, the first going to a corporal in Bosnia in
May 1995. After discussing the various military and civil gallantry
awards the rest of the book, some 300 pages, is taken up, with lists of
recipients - with full citations - of the Albert Medal; the Edward Medal;
Empire Gallantry; Albert Medal for Sea Service (Admiralty awards) and
Civilian Sea Service (Board of Trade awards); and Life Saving gallantry
awards - all these from the first awards to the end of 1938.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP3841.
498 pages. Price £22. |
The
Fifth in the Great War. A history of the 1st & 2nd
Northumberland Fusiliers 1914 - 1918. by Brig H R Sandilands. (1932)
The Northumberland Fusiliers (NF) raised more battalions
during the war than any other of the regular army regiments - 51 in all -
and its total of dead was the highest, 16000. This history, however, is
concerned only with the two regular battalions, the 1st which was in
Portsmouth in August 1914, and the 2nd which was in India.The 1st NF was
in 9th Brigade, 3rd Division and it needed 621 reservists to bring it up
to war strength. It arrived in France on 14 August 1914 and was soon in
action at Mons in which battle 3rd and 5th Divisions bore the brunt of the
fighting, and thereafter saw action in all the major engagements of 1914 -
Marne, Aisne, La Bassee, Armentieres and Ypres. The battalion remained on
the Western Front, in the same brigade and division, for the rest of the
war. In all it suffered 1742 dead.
The 2nd Bn arrived home from India in December 1914 and was allocated to
the 84th Brigade of the newly formed 28th Division, made up of regular
battalions returning from overseas. The battalion arrived in France in
January 1915 and its first major action was during the German gas attack
at Second Ypres and in the ensuing battles. It was then in the trenches at
Kemmel and in the fighting in the Hohenzollern Redoubt. In November 1915
the 28th Division was sent to Macedonia where malaria took a greater toll
than the enemy. On one occasion a company paraded with just one officer
and two lance-corporals, malaria had accounted for the rest. The battalion
remained there till June 1918 when it returned to France and joined 150th
Brigade in the reconstituted 50th (Northumbrian) Division, a Territorial
division; it stayed with that division to the end of the war. Total dead
709 of which 392 were battle casualties.
This history unfolds in chronological order with every chapter bar one
(Macedonia) concerned with the Western Front. Each chapter covers a
specific period of time and deals with one or the other battalion. It is
well written and full of detail with plenty of maps. There is no Roll of
Honour nor list of Honours and Awards though one appendix lists all the
officers by battalion, indicating those who died. There is an index of
names and one of units. This is a rare history and I can recall seeing
only once in a military catalogue a copy for sale.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7420.
310 pages. Price £24. |
Distinguished
Service Cross 1901 - 1938. by Fevyer (1988)
This title contains all 1700 awards from the Conspicuous
Service Cross with full London Gazette citations in date order with an
index.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP3553.
92 pages. Price £8.95. |
The
Meritorious Service Medal. The immediate awards 1916 - 1928.
by Ian McInnes (1992)
Instituted in 1845 and first awarded in 1847, with an
annuity, to reward specially selected long service NCOs, eligibility for
the award was extended in 1916 to WOs, NCOs and Men but without
entitlement to an annuity. This unique work of reference not only
lists the recipients of immediate awards between 1916 and 1928 but it also
analyses the comparative rarity and therefore 'collectability' of any
medal, which depends to a large extent on the numbers issued to a
particular unit or theatre of operations. Among nearly twenty
appendices is a comprehensive analysis of awards to Corps and regiments by
theatre. A resume provides the reader with the changing history of
the award, and some 1200 footnotes include citations both for gallantry
and valuable service, and point out highlights of MSM groups seen and
identified. A remarkable piece of research.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5517
512 pages. Price £28.00. |
The
Distinguished Service Order. 6th September 1886 to 31st December 1915. by
O'Moore Creagh and E M Humphris (1924)
The DSO was instituted on 6th September 1886, and the Bar
to the Order on 23rd August 1916. This book provides a complete record of
the recipients of the DSO from its institution in September 1886 to 31st
December 1915, with descriptions of the deeds and services for which the
awards was given and with many biographical and other details. It was
compiled from official publications (including the London Gazette
citations) and despatches, letters from commanding officers and other
contemporary accounts, including private sources. There are photos of a
large number of the recipients. The book opens with the Statutes of the
Order, including the original promulgation and the Statutes promulgated on
1st April 1918 by command of King George V, in which all previous rules
and ordinances were “abrogated, cancelled and annulled” and new rules
and regulations governing the Order introduced. The first recipient of the
DSO was Queen Victoria. The wording of the citations are included in the
biographical details. Finally there is an index of names. This history is
a remarkable record and a piece of research of lasting value.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP2411.
446 pages. Price £24. |
The
Distinguished Service Order. 1st January 1916 to the 12th June
1923. by O'Moore Creagh and E M Humphris. (1924)
This volume continues the story of the DSO from January
1916 to the middle of 1923, but the layout is different. The first 195
pages are taken up with the appointments and services as gazetted from 1st
January 1916 to the 12th June 1923, including all the awards made during
the same period, of Bars to the DSOs. The London Gazette extracts are
arranged chronologically. The remainder of the book constitutes an index
of names of the recipients of the award, giving biographical details of
the recipien,t with the date of the London Gazette announcing the award,
but not the citation. For that information the reader must look back among
the London Gazette extracts in the first part of the book.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5277.
179 pages. Price £24. |
Dress
Regulations for the Army, 1891. by HMSO
These regulations were issued on 1st April 1891 over
the signature of Redvers Buller, then Adjutant General and holder of the
VC, later C in C in the opening stages of the Boer War; he didn’t last
long in the job. After some general instructions these regulations go on
to lay down the dress for the Staff and for all Arms of Service - Cavalry,
Artillery, Engineers, Infantry, Army Service Corps and Departments (e.g
Chaplains, Medical, Pay etc). The Cavalry is divided into Household,
Dragoon Guards and Dragoons, Hussars and Lancers; the Infantry into the
different types of regiments - Foot Guards, Scottish regiments, Rifle
regiments, Light infantry regiments and the other Line regiments. Every
aspect and variety of dress is covered. Finally there are tables
describing the badges of every infantry regiment of the Line as worn on
buttons, headgear, collars and waist-plates
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4884.
179 pages. Price £7.95. |
Dress
Regulations (India) 1931. by Government of India.
The Kitchener reforms of 1903 resulted in the Indian
Army that went to war in 1914, and this reorganized army is the one
covered by the Dress Regulations of 1913, the last to describe full dress
(see under ‘Army Regulations India’ in this book list). After the
Great War there was another change during 1921-3 in which the 39 cavalry
regiments were reduced to 21 and the 130 infantry regiments became
battalions of 20 new regiments, and this was the Indian Army that went to
war in 1939, less the 20th Burma Rifles which was transferred to Burma
Service in 1937. These regulations define the sealed patterns of dress,
clothing, equipment and badges; commanding officers were forbidden to
introduce or to sanction any deviation. Full dress uniform does not
feature, but officers who possessed the pre-1914 pattern were authorised
to wear it when not on duty with troops who were no longer issued with it.
All the new regiments are covered in this book
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4890.
124 pages. Price £7.95. |
The
East Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War 1914 - 1918. by Everard
Wyrall. (1928)
In August 1914 the East Yorks consisted of two Regular
battalions (1st and 2nd), a Special Reserve (3rd) and two Territorial
battalions (4th and 5th Cyclist). After the outbreak of war eight Service
(Kitchener) battalions were raised (6th to 13th) as well as two Reserve
(14th and 15th) and two Garrison battalions (1st and 2nd). The 4th
Battalion TF formed a second and third line battalion, 2/4th and 3/4th.
Ten of the nineteen battalions went on active service.
This history covers all the battalions though only very briefly those that
did not go overseas. The author, a prolific writer of
divisional/regimental histories follows his customary pattern of arranging
his story chronologically with chapters devoted to specific battles and
periods of trench warfare. In the margins of the text describing events he
notes the dates, as in a diary, and identifies the battalions involved.
The Roll of Honour lists the officers alphabetically by ranks without
indicating the battalion or date of death; the other ranks are shown by
battalions and by ranks within each battalion, again without date of
death. The total dead for the war amounts to 403 officers and 7,080 other
ranks, the 1st Battalion incurring the greatest number - 1,536 WOs, NCOs
and Men. Four VCs were awarded for which the citations are given. Honours
and Awards are listed in three groups: British awards (1,125 in all),
Mention in Despatches (397) and Foreign awards (94); battalions and dates
are not specified.
The 1st Battalion went to France with 18th Brigade, 6th Division, joining
the BEF at the Battle of the Aisne. In November 1915 it was transferred to
64th Brigade, 21st Division with which it remained for the rest of the war
on the Western Front. The 2nd Battalion was in India and arrived home in
December 1914, joining the newly formed Regular division, the 28th with
which it went to France in January 1915. In November the division was
transferred to the Macedonian front. The 6th Battalion was the only one to
go to Gallipoli, which it did as the Pioneer Battalion of 11th Division.
In December 1915 the battalion was evacuated with the division and ended
up in France in July 1916. All the other battalions that went on active
service fought on the Western Front, three of them - 8th, 12th and 13th
were disbanded in February 1918 in the reorganization of the BEF that
reduced brigades from four to three battalions. Given the number of
battalions covered in this single volume the account of all the activities
is necessarily compressed, based essentially on the War Diaries, without
anecdotal contributions The maps are very good, uncluttered yet displaying
tactical detail easy to follow.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7403.
486 pages. Price £28. |
The
Egyptian Campaigns 1882 - 1885 & the Events Which Led to Them.
by Charles Royle (1886)
This is the standard, two-volume history of one of the
classic, albeit largely disastrous, campaigns of Victorian military
history - the attempt to impose British rule or influence on Egypt and the
trackless wastes of the Sudan which, then as now, despite much-trumpeted
victories, proved implacably hostile to foreign intervention. The climax
of the story is the tragic saga of Charles Gordon, the charismatic,
eccentric, though fatally flawed British General, whose death at Khartoum
provoked a belated expedition down the Nile in a futile rescue attempt.
Royles history is a model account . A barrister and not a military man
himself, he is unsparing of the political mistakes of successive British
administrations - Liberal and Conservative - to deal with Egypt.
Vol. 1 of the history traces the political background, and the Egyptian
Col. Arabis revolt against British dominance. This in turn provoked a
major British intervention designed to protect investment in the
newly-built and vital Suez Canal. Military operations included the siege
and partial destruction of Alexandria, the battle of Tel-el-Kebir and the
capture of Cairo.
Vol 2 opens with the rise of the Mahdi, the humbly-born Sudanese student
who claimed the mantle of an Islamic messiah, and drew thousands of
fanatical followers to his cause. At first the Mahdi swept al before him,
destroying an Anglo-Egyptian army under Gen Hicks, and another under Gen.
Baker and crowning his triumphs with the death of Gordon. After the mahdis
death came the less than successful Souakim expedition before a humiliated
Britain withdrew from its profitless involvement in the Sudan.
Two Volumes - One text and one plates.
Standard and detailed comprehensive work.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6896.
389 pages & 388 pages. Price £22. |
The
Egyptian Soudan, Its Loss and Recovery (1896 - 1898). by Henry S L
Alford and W Dennistoun Sword. (1899)
This book includes a rapid sketch of the history of Sudan,
a narrative of the Dongola expedition of 1896, and a full account of the
Nile expedition of 1897-1898. The first part describes the early days of
the country, its conquest by the Egyptian Khedive, Mahomed Ali, the
foundation of Khartoum and its place as the great central slave market.
The involvement of the British in suppressing this trade brought Gordon to
Khartoum, subsequently the scene of his death in January 1885 when
Khartoum was was taken by the Mahdi. A relief force arrived two days too
late - and withdrew to Egypt leaving the Mahdi in control. Eventually the
decision was taken to reconquer the Sudan and in 1896 Kitchener, the
Sirdar of Egypt, was given the task. The account of the two years it took
forms the main part of this book, culminating in the battle of Omdurman.
There are two very informative appendices, the one provides the
organization of the forces of the Dongola and Nile expeditions with a
complete nominal roll of all the officers, the other is the roll of honour
of British officers, WOs, NCOs and Men who lost their lives in the
campaign
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5306.
Price £9.95. |
History
of G Troop Royal Horse Artillry by Major H M Dawson.
This history of what the author proudly calls a famous
troop of the Royal Horse Artillery begins with the batterys formation by
Captain (later Maj.Gen.) Sir George Fisher in 1801 in time for the
Napoleonic Wars. In these the Troop took a distinguished role at the
Battle of Waterloo - the charge of G Troop being the subject of a painting
which forms the frontispiece of this book. The unit next saw service
during the Indian Mutiny in which it took part in the campaign in Oude
province. After helping disperse a somewhat farcical Fenian revolt in
ireland in 1867, G Troop took part in the Boer War, being present at the
Battle of Magersfontein, the relief of Kimberley and the wars final
campaign. This fine unit history is illustrated by plate portraits, maps
of the Waterloo and South African campaigns, and is accompanied by an
appendix listing the units officers.
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NMP5975. 108 pages.
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Military
Field Pocket Book; Translation of General Scharnhorst by Cap. Haverfield
and Lt. Hofmann.
This translation of the Military Field Pocket Book
containing the tactical thinking and military methods of the great General
von Scharnhorst, architect of Prussias successful resistance to Napoelons
domination, was translated in 1811 when Britains war with Napoleon was at
its height, and when the Emperor, save in Spain, still seemed invincible.
Young officers, although now being trained on a structured basis, often
still lacked personal experience of operations against the enemy.
Scharnhorsts work was intended to give such young men (who would be
commanding in the field by the time of the Battle of Waterloo) some expert
insight and guidance into their profession.
The first part of the book concerns the instructions for infantry and
cavalry officers . The manual is full of useful advice on such things as
surprising sentries, finding the enemy and capturing couriers. Another
important section describes the practical aspects of field fortifications,
and how they should be built. There are examples of obstacles that can be
put in the enemys path, as well as wise counsel on how to overcome the
same when attacking. This is a military masterclass from a genius at
warfare.
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NMP8592. 313 pages.
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With
a B - P Scout in Gallipoli by E Y Priestman.
The B-P of the title is Baden-Powell and the author,
Edmund Yerbury Priestman, had been a keen scout. After leaving school he
entered business and devoted his spare time to the Boy Scout Movement and
Mens Adult Schools. At the outbreak of war he placed himself at the
disposal of the Sheffield Watch Committee (he was a Sheffield man) to
superintend the Boy Scouts who were guarding places of danger from spies -
his daily round covered eighty miles. In October 1914 he took a commision
in the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, a Kitchener battalion
in 32nd Brigade, 11th (Northern) Division, and after nine months training
at Belton Park, Grantham and Whitley Camp he went with his battalion to
Gallipoli and was in the landing at Suvla bay on 6 August 1915. He was
killed three months later during the night of 18th/19th November while
defending an advanced post, a duty for which he had volunteered. The
position he died defending was named after him Priestmans Post. He is
buried in Hill 10 Cemetery, Suvla. He was 25.
In his preface, which takes the form of a letter to his mother, he notes
she has been keeping all his letters and that as things are they must by
now (10th January 1915) be a mighty and uninteresting pile so he has
decided to reform and suggests she starts a new file and call it Beltons
Bulldogs. She evidently took him at his word because this book contains
all the letters, with the beginnings and endings excised, starting from
10th January at Belton Park and ending on 10th November, a few days before
his death in action. He kept them cheerful (numerous as Baden-Powell notes
in his Foreword, and they provide a real picture of life in and out of the
line at Gallipoli. They leave the impression of a good man, popular with
his platoon and always conscious of his duty as befitted a committed
Scout. His final action is described in an extract from the Sheffield
Daily Telegraph of 5th Februay 1916. There is a final section entitled
Studies From the Dardanelles which contains a number of cartoon drawings
and a couple of poems.
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NMP7016. 311 pages.
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The
Eighty-Fifth King's Light Infantry (Now 2nd Battn King's Shropshire Light
Infantry). (1931)
A substantial regimental history of a distinguished unit
down to the South African War a century ago, and of its two disbanded
predecessors. The first ‘85th’, the ‘Royal Volunteers’ was raised
in 1759 and took part in the capture of the French island of Belleisle in
the Bay of Biscay and also served in Spain and Portugal during the Seven
Years’ War before being disbanded in 1763. The second unit to bear the
numerals ‘85’, the Westminster Volunteers, had a truly tragic fate.
IThis 85th was raised in 1779 and served in Jamaica where the ravages of
Yellow Fever took such a toll that the remnants of the regiment not
stricken by the disease were embarked for New York in a convoy which was
wrecked by an Atlantic storm. There were very few survivors and remnants
of the regiment was disbanded on arriving home at Dover. The third and
final incarnation of the 85th begun life as the Bucks Volunteers in 1793,
served in the French Revolutionary wars in the Netherlands, Madeira and
Jamaica. Transformed into a Light Infantry unit, it again served in the
Low Countiries - around Flushing and Walcheren - in the Napoleonic Wars in
1808. With an establishment raised to ten companies, the 85th fought in
the Peninsula War, being present at the Battle of Fuentes d’Onoro. It
returned to Spain for the final 1813-14 campaign of the war, serving at
the Siege of San Sebastian, and fighting against Marshal Soult at the
battle of the Nivelle. The unit ended the war at Bayonne. In the 1814 War
with the United States, the 85th was present when Washington was captured
and the White House burned. In the same war it also took part in the
disastrous Battle of New Orleans. In the mid-century, the 85th was on
garrison duty in Malta, Gibraltar, Ireland, Canada, India and the West
Indies. It took part in the 1879-80 campaigns in Afghanistan. The final
battle honours recounted in this volume were during the South African War
when the 85th was present at the battle of Paardeburg and faced the
legendary Boer commando leaders Generals De Wet and Botha. This
exceptional book has many fine illustrations, including 11 colour plates
illustrating the evolution of regimental uniforms; five appendices listing
officers of the regiment; and many maps, drawings and sketches.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6853.
551 pages. Price £38. |
Enemy
Weapons. German Infnatry, Engineer and Airborne Weapons. by War
Office July 1943.
This pamphlet is Part V of a series, and deals with German
Infantry, Engineer and Airborne weapons. It was issued by the British War
Office in July, 1943. There are details of German grenades and grenade
dischargers, which includes the 27mm Kampfpistole, the rifle grenade
discharger (Schiessbecher) and the sighting equipment, and the spigot type
rifle discharger. The section on machine carbines looks at the Bergmann
MP18, the 9mm MP28 (the so-called Schmeisser), the MP34 (Bergmann) and the
Steyr-Solothurn MP34(o). Under rifles there is treatment of the important
Gew 41 7.92mm self-loading rifle. Among machine guns it treats in detail
the relatively new (in 1943) MG42, and there are notes on the MG34 S and
the MG34/41. Mortars: the 8cm German mortar 34, the 10cm Nebelwerfer 35
and the 20cm leichte Landungswerfer are shown, and there is a table of
compatibility between British, German and Italian mortar ammunition.
Airborne guns: this section shows the revolutionary 7.5cm LG40 in great
detail. All reports are accompanied by drawings and there are photographs
of the MG42 and the LG40.
This pamphlet is of great importance to students of infantry weapons,
particularly of airborne troops with its detailed examination of the LG40.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6668.
59 pages. Price £6.50. |
Downside
& the War 1914 - 1919. by Dom Lucius Graham, O.S.B. (1925)
A fine memorial. Roll of service plus lengthy
obituaries, with full page portraits of some 120 who fell.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5325.
232 pages. Price £14.95. |
Fair-bairn's
Crests of Great Britain and Ireland.
Two Volumes - one text and one plates.
Vol I 601 pp including a 522 page index of family names, in alphabetical
order, describing the crest of every name listed and where to find an
illustration in the volume of plates; a glossary of heraldic terms and
other words; and nearly seventy pages of family mottoes with translations
of those in Latin, French or other foreign languages.
Vol II contains 130 plates, each depicting 15 family crests in b/w and a
further 18 plates illustrating regalia, insignia, crowns, flags,
monograms, arms of principal cities etc. also in b/w. There is a key to
all the plates which, in the case of the crests, shows which families have
which crest.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7813.
1123 pages in total. Price £28. |
The
Walther P38 Pistol. by German Army (1940)
The Walther P38 pistol in 9mm was a standard issue weapon
of the Second World War, and got a deserved reputation for its ease of
handling and durability. One of the few double action pistols ever issued
to any army, the weapon was issued as a sidearm for many German Army
personnel during the war.
The pamphlet (officially H.Dv254) covers handling, stripping, assembly and
firing together with the range practices to be fired by all who carried
the weapon.
Although never as famous as the Luger pistol, the weapon was issued to far
more troops than the Luger ever was, being carried by all other ranks who
were involved with vehicles (transport or fighting) as well as many junior
officers, and even medical orderlies on the eastern front, despite the
rules of the Geneva Convention, which forbade the carrying of firearms by
medical personnel.
The original is dated as valid from 1 February 1940.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6850.
32 pages. Price £4.50. |
Field
Exercise and Evolutions of the Army (1824). Revised by Major General
Sir Henry Torrens KCB KTS, Adjutant General to the Forces.
The revised 1824 edition of the standard manual of British
army exercises. Major General Sir Henry Torrens had the recent experiences
of the Napoleonic Wars firmly in mind when he undertook the revision of
the rules. The resulkting handbook was then distributed to all officers to
be ‘strictly adhered to, without any deviation whatsoever’. Part One
of the book is divided into three sections. The first deals with open
order exercises without arms, and covers parading, stepping out, marching
etc. The second deals with close order marching; and the third, exercising
with arms. Part II concerns company manoevres; and Part III with those of
a battalion. Part IV details the rules of Light Infantry formations, and
Part V with those of a brigade. The book is accompanied by a series of
fascinating diagrams illustrating the exercises and manoevres described.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6525.
335 pages. Price £14.50. |
Field
Service Pocket Book 1914. by War Office August 1914
This book was issued by the British War Office to all
senior NCOs, warrant officers and officers in the Great War. It details
many aspects of the British military art, starting with the war
establishments of the British Army (cavalry and Infantry Divisions and
ancillary units) and the Indian Army.
The handbook details everyday military conduct in the field, and lays down
the regulations and guidelines for marches, quarters, camp cooking,
sanitation and water supply. There are chapters on orders and the means of
communication, plus overseas operations, map reading and field sketching
(the intelligence functions). Field engineering is dealt with too, along
with tools and explosives, together with defensive systems, obstacles, and
working parties. The minutiae of engineering is also laid bare, with
knots, blocks and tackles, bridging and bridging expedients and
demolitions laid down.
Transport is covered in Chapter V, including convoys and movements by rail
and by sea. Chapter VI deals with small arms and guns, the supply of
ammunition, rations and fuel, together with their storage. Pay, clothing
and field equipment is detailed, and so too is office work, discipline and
courts martial. Added to this is a chapter on the army in India and other
overseas dominions, and details of foreign armies. Here too are tables of
comparison of such diverse matters as weights and measures (British and
Indian), aeronautical terms and billeting orders.
This handbook - issued in 1914 and revised in 1916 - gives a remarkably
detailed picture of the rules and regulations governing the British and
Indian armies at the mid-point of the First World War and is warmly
recommended to all students of the period.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6672.
290 pages. Price £11.50. |
Fifth
Leicestershire. A Record of the 1/5th Battalion the Leicestershire
Regiment, TF, during the War 1914 - 1919. by J D Hills. (1919)
This battalion history, based essentially on the War Diary
supplemented by contributions from various battalion members; it is a far
more detailed one than that of the 1/4th. The battalion, which had its HQ
in Loughborough, was also in the Lincoln and Leicester Brigade of the 46th
(N Midland) Division. It arrived in France on 28 February 1915 and the
first few months were spent in the Armentieres sector and the Salient
before moving south to the Loos battlefield. During the attack on the
Hohenzollern Redoubt, which decimated the 1/4th, the battalion was
fortunately in reserve; it was a day that caused 46th Division the highest
number of casualties of any day of the war - 3,583.
There is plenty of meat in this history, detailed accounts of actions and
events in and out of the trenches, names of officers and other ranks, list
of honours and awards - but again no index. There was a moment of
excitement when the division was was ordered to Egypt and began to move at
the end of December 1915. The battalion (with 1/4th Battalion) embarked at
Marseille on 21 January 1916 in the Cunarder Andania, described as a
‘floating palace,’ only to be told the next morning to disembark; the
powers that be had changed their minds and the division went back to the
trenches. In the fighting at the approaches to the St Quentin Canal, 2Lt
J.C Barrett won the VC for gallantry during the battalion attack on
Pontruet on 24 September 1918. By the end of the war the battalion had
suffered 440 dead of whom 25 were officers. A good history!
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6113.
379 pages. Price £15.50. |
The
Fighting Cock : Being the History of the 23rd Indian Division, 1942 -
1947. by Lieut Col A J F Doulton (1951)
This division first saw light in Jhansi on 1st January
1942, under the command of Major-General R.A.Savory who had come from the
4th Indian Division in which he had been a brigade commander at Sidi
Barrani and Keren (Eritrea). At first there were virtually no troops but
gradually the brigades began to assemble - 1st, 37th and 49th, all of
which would remain to the end of the war. Apart from the presence of the
82nd ATk Regt for a brief period in the very early days, the only British
units to serve in the division were 158th Field Regiment RA and 1st
Seaforths.
In May the division took up station on the frontiers of Assam and Burma,
the only force between the Japanese and India. The GOC’s operation order
included the intention: “23 Ind Div will (a) stop the Japanese invading
INDIA, and (b) defeat them if they do.” For the next two years and three
months the division fought in the jungles of Burma and for all but five
months of that time they were front line troops. They went through the
length of Burma finishing up near Rangoon and in August 1944 they were
withdrawn and sent back to India. Casualties totalled 2,910 of whom 605
were killed in action. A year later, just after VJ-Day, they were sent to
Malaya and from there to Java to restore order in the Dutch colony and
hand it back to the Netherlands. They were engaged in fighting the
Indonesian rebels for more than a year, suffering a further 1,377
casualties, 407 of them killed and 162 missing. Summary of Honours and
Awards and index. This is a good history which describes vividly the
atmosphere of jungle fighting and the savage resistance of the Japanese
soldier.
On page xvi the author explains the Indian Army ranks and shows the
Subedar-Major under the NCO group. This is wrong. The Subedar-Major was
the senior Viceroys’s Commissioned Officer in the battalion.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6559.
318 pages. Price £14.50. |
For
Conspicuous Gallantry. The Register of the Conspicuous Gallantry
Medal 1855 - 1992. compiled by Phil McDermott. (1998)
The Conspicuous Gallantry Medal (CGM) was instituted in
1855 as the naval counterpart of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM)
which had been introduced the year before, but for which men of the Royal
Navy and Royal Marines were not eligible. Both pre dated the VC
(1856). Thus, until the appearance of the CGM there was no way of
recognising gallant and distinguished service by sailors and
marines. The initial medal was the Royal Marine Meritorious Service
Medal but with the words "For Meritorious Service" on the
reverse altered to read "For Conspicuous Gallantry".
Twelve of these original medals were awarded to eleven recipients; Able
Seaman D Barry received two. After the Crimea the medal fell into
disuse. It was revived for the Ashantee War of 1873 - 1874 and
subsequent wars and campaigns. In 1921 the ribbon was changed from
three equal stripes blue, white, blue, to white with dark blue edges to
avoid any confusion with the DSC which also had the same three stripes
though with a darker blue. In 1942 came the final change in the
CGM's history when eligibility was extended to Army and RAF personnel for
gallantry whilst flying in active operations against the enemy, this in
addition to the Distinguished Flying Medal. The CGM (Flying) medal
remained the same but with a different ribbon of light blue with dark blue
edges. In 1995 the DCM and both the CGMs were replaced by the new
Conspicuous Gallantry Cross. This book is in two sections : the CGM
and the CGM(Flying) with the names of recipients of each medal arranged in
alphabetical order along with any citations.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1641.
211 pages. Price £17.95. |
For
Distinguished Conduct in the Field. The Register of the
Distinguished Conduct
Medal. 1939 - 1992. by George A Brown (1993)
A comprehensive record of the
award of the soldier’s second highest award for gallantry, from the
outbreak of World War 2 to the conclusion of the Gulf War. Full citations
from the original recommendations are given for WW2 awards,
cross-referenced to the L.G. dates. Later awards give the citations where
published in the London Gazette. A most comprehensive work, with over
2,000 entries.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7448.
544 pages. Price £28. |
For
Remembrance. Soldier Poets who have Fallen in the War. by A St John
Adcock (1918)
Forty-four soldier poets who lost their lives in the Great
War in various theatres are commemorated in this book which begins with
the names, in alphabetical order, and brief details on each - rank, unit,
date of death and titles of works. The text expands on these men telling
something about their lives and giving an appreciation of their work with
numerous examples of their poetry. I must admit I am not into poetry,
neither in war nor in peace, and the only other similar work that comes to
mind is one published seventy-five years after this one - A Deep Cry by
Anne Powell - in which biographical details of sixty-six soldier poets who
died on the Western Front are given together with examples of their
poetry. Despite this much larger number there are still poets in For
Remembrance who died in France/Flanders who do not feature in the other
book.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7438.
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For
Valour, The VC. by J E Muddock.
This book describes the first VC Investiture in Hyde
Park in June 1857 and also the origins of the Crimean War.There are very
brief accounts of VC actions in the Indian Mutiny (pages 196-262) and in
the Zulu War, particularly Rorke’s Drift (pages 263-288).
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5502.
292 pages. Price £9.95. |
Forty-One
Years in India : From Salbaltern to Commander in Chief. by Field
Marshall Earl Roberts of Kandahar. (1905)
A comprehensive memoir of Lord Roberts’ military
service in India from 1852 to 1893.He narrates, in detail, his
participation in numerous campaigns. covers his early days in India, the
Indian Mutiny and his service in the 1860s. continues with the Umbeyla
Expedition of 1868, the Abyssinian Expedition, the Lushai Expedition, the
Afghan War and the Burma Expedition.The work concludes with his farewell
to India.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5460.
601 pages. Price £14.95. |
Four
Years on the Western Front. by Rifleman (1922)
The author (real name Aubrey Smith) served with the London
Rifle Brigade (1/5th Bn London Regt) throughout the Great War. The LRB was
among the first Territorial battalions to land in France (November 1914)
and 'Rifleman' joined it at the end of January 1915 in ‘Plugstreet’.
He served in the trenches and in the battalion Transport Section. This is
one of the classics among memoirs of an other rank, one to be counted with
'Old Soldiers Never Die' and 'There's a Devil in the Drum'. He saw action
at Second Ypres (gas attack), Gommecourt, the Somme, Arras, Third Ypres,
Cambral, in the German 1918 offensive and in the final advance. He was
awarded the MM in August 1917 and a bar in November 1918. An enthralling
picture of life in an infantry battalion on the Western Front.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5077.
409 pages. Price £14.95. |
The
Fourth Battalion the King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and The Great
War. by Ltd Col W F A Wadham and Captain J Crossley (1920)
The 4th (TF) Battalion of the King’s Own went to France
in May 1915 as part of the N Lancashire Brigade (154th), which had
replaced a Highland brigade in 51st Highland Division. The brigade’s
parent division, the West Lancashire Division, had been broken up to
provide reinforcements for the BEF. In January 1916 the division was
re-formed in France as 55th (W Lancs) Division and the brigade rejoined it
as the 164th. The division became one of the best in the BEF, winning more
VCs (12) than any other non-regular division, including the only VC and
Bar to be awarded (Capt N.Chavasse, RAMC); 4th King’s Own won three VCs.
The battalion fought at Festubert, Arras, the Somme, Third Ypres and at
Givenchy where the division’s memorial is, commemorating its defence of
that place in April 1918, stopping the German assault. This is a good,
informative account of the battalion’s fortunes in France and Flanders
(it could do with maps) and the appendices (which are paginated with roman
numerals) provide a wealth of information: nominal roll of officers on
mobilization; nominal roll of officers who went to France with the
battalion; additional nominal roll of all officers who served with the
battalion, listed in order of joining (196 of them!); roll of officers and
other ranks killed, died of wounds, wounded, missing and prisoners of war;
list of honours and awards with citations for the VCs. There are no dates
with these various nominal rolls. According to the divisional history, the
battalion casualties from January 1916 (when the division re-formed) to
November 11th totalled 3,061. Finally there is an index.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6745.
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From
Midshipman to Field Marshal. by Sir Evelyn Wood VC.
The famous and classic autobiography of one of Britain’s
most famous soldiers, Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC. Remarkably for the
time, Wood began his career as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, serving in
the Naval Brigade in the Crimean War.He was then commissioned into the
Army and saw service in the Sudan War in 1884-85. Wood documents fully
both his short naval service and his distinguished military career. This
edition of the memoirs includes the two volumes in a single book. Volume 1
covers Wood’s family background and spans the period up to 1878.Volume 2
continues from 1878 and ends with his appointment, in 1903, as a Field
Marshal.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5507.
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From
the Black Mountain to Waziristan. by Col H C Wylly CB. (1912)
A classic account of what the author calls the ‘wild
men’ of the Indian North-West Frontier, and of the ‘equally wild
country’ in which Britain did battle with them in the years before the
Great War. The author, who served in the region with the Tirah
Expeditionary Force, wrote the book to fill a gap in modern military
accounts of campaigns in the area, which, after the fall of the Sikh
empire, was the most troubling thorn in the flesh of the British Raj. The
author begins by describing the fierce Pathan tribes; their military
qualities and passionate blood feuds. He next deals with the ‘Black
Mountain Tribes’ - the Swatis, Akazais, and Hassaanzais. Later chapters
deal with the people of the Peshawar valley; the ‘Hindustani fanatics’
and the operations mounted aginast them after the Indian Mutiny; the
Malakand Field Force - the subject of Winston Churchill’s first book -;
the Utman Khels; Chitralis; Mohmands; the Afridis of the Khyber pass; the
Orakzais and the peoples of Waziristan. Altogether, this is a
comprehensive account of some of the most difficult and protracted
fighting waged by the British Army in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Forget ‘Carry On Up the Khyber’ : life and death on the Frontier was
certainly no joke. The book is accompanied by a series of maps and a table
of the many expeditions mounted against the north-west tribes.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6526.
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A
Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War
Between Great Britain and the United States of America. by William
James (1818)
must confess I know little, if anything, about the War of
1812 with the USA, which is the subject of this book. For anybody else in
the same boat, who wants to learn about it, this 1000-page account will go
a long way towards remedying that lack of knowledge. It is a contemporary
account, published a few years after the war, which officially ended in
December 1814 though hostilities dragged on. As you might expect, the
prose is flowery, written at a time when authors were not inclined to
simply call a spade a shovel, but rather tended to elaborate and wordy
sentences. That said, it is a very comprehensive account with great
attention to detail, beginning with the causes for the war during which an
American invasion of Canada was sharply seen off. There are numerous
appendices containing official correspondence, the wording of the Peace
Treaty drawn up in Ghent in December 1814 (though hostilities did not
cease for a two or three months) and casualty figures for various
engagements. Battle honours awarded to the British forces engaged included
Detroit, Niagara, Miami and Queenstown, but on the other hand James is
severely critical of what he calls the misbehaviour in action of two
British regiments, the 44th and 21st Foot, described as “the two worst
disciplined corps on the field at New Orleans.” The problem for the
British was the threat from Napoleon, and it wasn’t till the Spring of
1814, after his fall, that they were able to reinforce significantly their
naval and military forces forces; nevertheless they were certainly pleased
to see the end of the war. It was during this conflict that Washington was
taken and the Capitol burned and that reminds me of a story an American
officer colleague told me. He was attending a military conference chaired
by US colonel and at some point the British representative, also a
colonel, was proving difficult. Eventually the exasperated chairman
thumped the table saying: “What can you expect from the guys who burned
Washington!” The British officer replied: “Really? I know we did for
Joan of Arc but I didn’t know we did George as well!” Evidently I was
not alone in my ignorance.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6333.
476 pages. Price £32. |
German
Air Raids on Great Britain 1914 - 1918. by Joseph Morris (1925)
The record of then fifty-one German airship and fifty-two
aircraft bombing raids on England during the Great War in which 280 tons
of bombs were dropped. Casualties amounted to 1,413 killed, and 3,408
wounded. This account is the first complete record of the raids, which
also explains the origins and development of the German air bombing
campaign over Britain, and how it was countered. Contemporary photos
supplement the text in which German, as well as British, experiences are
described. The author had access to official records, in particular a
series of Air Raid reports prepared as they occurred by the War Office. An
extremely unusual and valuable book.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5462.
306 pages. Price £9.95. |
G.H.Q.
(Montreuil-Sur-Mer). by "G.S.O." (Peud of Sir Frank
Fox)
Account of the work at G.H.Q. by an officer who served
there attached to the Quartermaster-General’s Branch.“His account of
the conditions in which a junior administrative staff officer lived and
worked is valuable, especially as there are few records of this sort.” -
Falls
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6741.
306 pages. Price £11.50. |
"Gas!"
The Story of the Special Brigade. by Maj-Gen C H Foulkes (1934)
The author of this book was a junior major in the Royal
Engineers, stationed at the Depot in Chatham when war broke out. He went
to France in October 1914 to 3 Base, Boulogne, but some three weeks later,
8th November, he was sent forward to 2nd Division where he took over 11 Fd
Coy RE at Zillebeke.The C-in-C has therefore appointed Major Foulkes RE
for this duty. He has no pretence to technical knowledge, as far as I
know, and it is not considered that he need have very much. But he has had
much experience at the front, and can explain generally what we need and
how we can perhaps best use it.” In this fashion did Charles Howard
Foulkes, a complete novice in the science of chemical warfare, become
GHQ’s Gas Guru, responsible for the conduct of gas operations of the
British Army in France and for planning, organising, raising and training
what came to be known as the Special Brigade - part of the RE. .He
certainly didn’t have much time to create a new unit and train it in a
new aspect of warfare; the Battle of Loos, in which the British would
first use gas, was only four months away. Volunteers with a knowledge of
chemistry were sought among universities and colleges at home, as well as
from the ranks of the BEF, with immediate promotion to corporal - chemist
corporal. A suitable base was found at Helfaut, a village four or five
miles due south of St Omer (where GHQ was located at the time), where it
remained as the depot for the rest of the war. At first two Special
Companies were formed but they had been increased to four by the time the
Loos offensive opened on 25 September 1915. In 1916 the four companies
were expanded into the ‘Special Brigade’ consisting of 16
‘Cylinder’ companies, one ‘Projector’ company (flame thrower) and
four ‘Mortar’ companies, some 6,000 officers and men. This
organisation remained unchanged to the end of the war,All this is
described in detail as are all the operations involving the use of gas,
the various inventions such as the gas shell, the Stokes mortar and the
flame projector as well as the new types of gases, especially the deadly
phosgene which proved to be our main battle gas for the remainder of the
war, and mustard gas. According to Foulkes the total British casualties
due to gas amounted to 181,053 of which 6,109 were fatal- but of course
many lingered on after the war till they succumbed to the effects of gas
poisoning. He remarks that the true total of German gas casualties was
unlikely to be made known; to my knowledge no figure has been published.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5255.
361 pages. Price £25. |
The
K.O.S.B. in the Great War. by Capt Stair Gillon (1930)
In all the Kings Own Scottish Borderers totalled
fourteen battalions during the Great War of which eight saw action, most
of them on the Western Front but battalions also served at Gallipoli, in
the Egypt/Palestine campaign and, for a brief period, in Italy. There were
no battalions in India, Macedonia or Mesopotamia. Altogether some 7,000
died, 66 Battle Honours and four VCs were awarded, all four were won on
the Western Front and one of them, CSM J Skinner who was subsequently
killed, had the unique honour of being escorted to his grave in
Vlamertinghe by six fellow VCs as pall-bearers.
The author has tackled his history on a battalion rather than
chronological basis, and after a brief but interesting account of the
early history of the regiment (formed in 1689) he leads the reader into
the consecutive history of each of the fighting battalions in the order in
which they entered the Great War. He divides his account into a series of
books, each dealing with a separate battalion or group of battalions, each
with their separate chapters beginning in each case with Chapter I. He
begins with the 2nd Battalion which was in Dublin when war broke out, part
of 13th Brigade, 5th Division. It arrived in France on 15th August 1914
with the original BEF and was soon in action at Mons and Le Cateau. The
battalion remained in the same brigade and division on the Western Front
throughout the war, apart from three and a half months, mid-December 1917
to early April 1918, when the division was sent to Italy. The 1st
Battalion was in Lucknow, India; it arrived back in the UK in December
1914 and was allotted to the newly formed 29th Division. In April 1915 it
went to Gallipoli and, when that campaign ended, transferred to France in
March 1916 after a two-month break in Egypt. The 1st Battalion also
remained in the same brigade (87th) and division throughout the war.
Book III is concerned with the Territorial battalions of which there were
two before the war, the 4th (Border) Battalion and the 5th (Dumfries and
Galloway). Both these battalions were in 52nd Lowland Division, a
Territorial formation, and fought in it at Gallipoli and in Egypt and
Palestine. In April 1918 the division was sent to France where the 1/5th
was transferred to 103rd Brigade in the re-constituted 34th Division. Then
comes the 6th (Service ) Battalion which arrived in France in May 1915
with 9th (Scottish) Division, followed by 7th and 8th (Service) Battalions
in 15th (Scottish) Division in July; all three fought on the Western Front
and Loos was their first major battle. The final Book VI deals with the
battalions that remained in the UK - 3rd (Special Reserve), 9th and 10th.
This is a competent piece of work, based on war diaries, letters, personal
accounts and diaries, much of which had been assembled before Stair Gillon
was called in to do the job.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7434.
468 pages. Price £22. |
A
History of the Services of the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment.
by Lt Colonel EAH Webb (to 1910)
This regimental history is a revision and continuation up
to 1910 of the printed Historical Record of the 17th Foot, published in
1848, by Richard Cannon of the War Office. Cannon produced a series of
regimental histories in the mid-nineteenth century. The regiment was
raised in 1688 by Colonel Solomon Richards for King James II, but a year
later allegiance was switched to William III; its first Battle Honour was
Namur, in 1695. The regiment was in N America during the War of
Independence, then it was sent to the W Indies in the Wars of the French
Revolution. In 1804 it went to India where it remained for twenty years,
gaining several battle honours. In 1825 King George IV approved of the
regiment bearing on its colours and appointments the figure of the Royal Tiger with the word
Hindoostan superscribed, as a
lasting testimony of the exemplary conduct of the corps during the period
of its service in India, from 1804 to 1823. Hence the regimental
nickname The Tigers. It was in the Crimea for 18 months from the end
of 1854, and at the Siege of Redan Cpl Philip Smith became the first
member of the regiment to receive the newly instituted Victoria Cross. In
1858 the 2nd Battalion was raised, though there had been a 2nd Battalion
for three short years, 1799 to 1802. The 1st Battalion saw service in the
Boer War. The story ends in 1910 with the 1st Battalion in Aldershot with
a strength of 801 all ranks, the 2nd was in India (1,031 all ranks) where
it had been adjudged the best regiment at arms (British regiments)
at the 6th Divisional Assault at Arms, Poona. The final chapter is devoted
to uniforms, equipment and the Colours (of the eleven colour plates two
depict the Colours and the rest uniforms). Appendices list the succession
of Colonels and give biographical details; give an account of the Siege of
Londonderry in 1689 and the Battle of Sherriffmuir in 1715 and details of
regimental silver and regimental music
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1990.
322 pages. Price £24.95. |
The
Gloucestershire Regiment in the War 1914 - 1918. by Everard Wyrall
(1931)
As the subtitle states these are the records of the 1st
(28th Foot), 2nd (61st Foot), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th and 6th
(First Line T.A.) Battalions, in other words this is the history of the
battalions of the regiment which existed prior to the outbreak of
war. The one appendix lists the twenty-four battalions that existed
during the war, indicating the theatre of war in which they served and in
which division. Eight of these battalions did not serve overseas,
and of the rest only one (7th Service Battalion) did not serve on the
Western Front, it went with 13th Division to Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and
Persia. Total losses amounted to 8,100, 72 battle honours were
awarded and in the appendix is shown which honours were awarded to which
battalion, information not seen in any other Great War regimental history;
and four VCs were won but only one of them by one of the battalions
covered in this book. In August 1914 the 1st Battalion was stationed
in Bordon, part of the 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division, and was among
the first British troops to disembark in Le Havre, on 13th August.
The first quarter of this book is concerned with the doings of the 1st
Battalion which saw action in the early battles of the war - Mons and the
retreat, the Marne, the Aisne, First Ypres and Givenchy. The 2nd
Battalion was in China when war broke out and came home to join the newly
formed 81st Brigade, 27th Division which arrived in France in December
1914 and in November 1915 was transferred to Salonika, where it remained
for the rest of the war. Three chapters of the book deal with the
operations in that theatre of war. The three Territorial battalions
were in the South Midland Division, later the 48th which crossed to France
at the end of March 1915 and fought on the Western Front till November
1917, when it was sent to Italy where it remained till the
armistice. The final chapter gives the account of operations in that
theatre. The author, a well known military historian, was probably
the most prolific among the writers of regimental and divisional
histories, some thirteen in all, and this account reflects the skill of
the writer in producing a very readable narrative, which draws on the
Battalion Diary, on individual accounts of actions, some quite lengthy,
and makes use of footnotes to give casualty details in addition to those
contained in the text, various comments, and items of information from
other sources to confirm or add to the main text. The maps are
good. There is no Roll of Honour nor list of honours and awards.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6789.
357 pages. Price £22. |
The
Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War. By Captain H FitzM. Stacke,
M.C. of the Regiment
Arguably the finest regimental history even written. A
magnificent publication it is with its profusion of maps, illustrations
and photos - each page of photos contains several. The Worcesters was one
of the five regiments that had four regular battalions before the war,
with two special reserve and two territorial battalions. By the end of the
war another fourteen battalions had been raised for a total of twenty-two
of which twelve went on active service. 9,460 officers and men gave their
lives, 71 Battle Honours were awarded and eight VCs one of whom, attached
to the RFC, was the airman Leefe Robinson, famous for shooting down a
zeppelin. Battalions served on the Western Front, in Gallipoli, Macedonia,
Mesopotamia, Italy; one battalion ended the war in North Persia.
Appendices provide the Roll of Honour; Honours and Awards including
Mention in Despatches, with date of Gazette (for ‘Companion’ of the
British Empire read ‘Commander’); details of Badges, Colours and
Distinctions of the regiment; and the music for regimental marches.
Illustrations are by well-known artists depicting battle scenes including
each VC-winning action - apart from Leefe’s zeppelin.
After considering various factors, explained in his very informative
preface, the author decided to present this history as one general story
in which the number of the battalion concerned is printed in the margin of
the pages dealing with its deeds. Attention is paid to minor actions such
as trench raids, which usually find no place in compressed official
histories; they are recorded in this history. The plans illustrate the
engagements recorded in the book, and are designed to depict the part
played by the several battalions in their battles and to enable the
visitor to the battlefields to recognise the ground on which each fight
took place, as much as to make clear the general course of those actions.
The book opens with a very interesting account of the regiment in the
years before the war, beginning at the turn of the century, and there is a
very comprehensive index of 25 pages. This is a great piece of work and
must rank as one of the finest of the Great War regimental histories, many
would say the finest, and I wouldn’t argue.
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With
A Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia. by an officer of the Battalion.
This account was actually written in Mesopotamia in 1917,
and the author was so imbued with a sense of security that while he states
it is the story of the 2nd Battalion, he does not say which regiment nor
does he identify the division to which his battalion belonged. He does
name the officers and the CO (A.G.Wauchope) and from this information it
can be said that the regiment is the Black Watch. When war broke out the
battalion was in India, where it had been since the end of the Boer War,
stationed in Bareilly and on mobilization it formed part of the Bareilly
Brigade of the 7th (Meerut) Division and went to France with the Indian
Corps, landing in France in October 1914. At the end of 1915 the Indian
Corps was withdrawn from France and sent to Mesopotamia where the
battalion arrived on the last day of 1915; before the week was out it was
in action at Shaikh Saad (6th-8th Jan ‘16)where it had some 60 killed,
the Official History speaks of 400 casualties in the battalion.
This account covers about 18 months, to the capture of Samarrah on 24th
April 1917 when the winter campaign of 1916-17 came to an end. There are
not many battalion histories dealing solely with the war in Mesopotamia
(there was only one British division in that theatre, the 13th) and that
makes this narrative interesting, not only from the point of view of the
numerous actions in which the battalion was involved, but also because of
the descriptions of the country, the inhabitants and the conditions in
which they fought - the casualty lists shows disease, heat stroke and
suffocation among the causes of death. Two of the chapters consist of
articles written by the CO. The full casualty roll of the other ranks is
given from 1st Jan ‘16 to 15th Jun ‘17 with the names arranged in
regimental number order, starting with 72 Sgt T.Archer. It shows the date,
cause and place of death and place of burial; many of these are shown as
on the battlefield with grid reference (remember this was written in
1917). There is also a full list of officers who served in the battalion
showing in each case dates of movements such as date and place of
embarkation and disembarkation, date of an y casualty.
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The
Story of the Munsters at Etreux, Festubert and Rue Du Bois. By Mrs
Victor Rickard.
This account of four battles involving the 2nd Battalion
Royal Munster Fusiliers during the first year of the war was written by
the widow of Lt Col V Rickard, who was killed at the Rue du Bois on 9 May
1915 while commanding the battalion. An interesting chapter is the
description of the battalion’s stand at Etreux during the retreat from
Mons, written by an officer who was taken prisoner and wrote his account
in a PoW Camp at Mainz am Rhein in July 1915; he was given permission to
send it home. The appendix contains several letters, written by members of
the battalion to friends or to next of kin of those who had been killed.
Today a memorial to the battalion stands on the site where it fought its
heroic action at Etreux and where nine of its officers and 118 other ranks
are buried.
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The
History of the Bengal European Regiment, now the Royal Munster Fusiliers
and how it Helped to win India. by Lieut Colonel P R Innes.
This history is dedicated to The Royal Munster Fusiliers,
in Glorious Memory of Their Illustrious Origin, The Bengal European
Regiment, of whose Honour, Fame, and Decorations They are the Inheritors
and Trusted Guardians. The origins of the regiment go back a hundred years
before Plassey, to the very early days of the East India Company when each
of the three Presidencies (Bengal, Madras and Bombay) had their own armies
of Native and European troops. The latter were initially organised in
companies and it was as a small guard of honour (an Ensign and thirty men)
that the Bengal Regiment began life in 1652. This grew into several
companies till 1756 when, under Clive’s orders, they were grouped to
form the regiment, then known as “The Bengal European Battalion.” In
1839 a second Bengal European Regiment was formed so we now had the 1st
and 2nd Regiments. In 1858 the Presidencies’ European regiments were
taken over by the Crown and the two Bengal regiments became 1st and 2nd
Bengal Fusiliers, redesignated in 1861 as 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers and
the 104th Bengal Fusiliers. It was in 1881 they became 1st and 2nd
Battalions The Royal Munster Fusiliers.
This book really is an account of the conquest of India by the British. It
opens in 1644 (back home the Civil War was at its height) with a look at
the political causes which led to the formation of the regiment. The
enemies were not only the Native Rulers but also the French, Portuguese,
Dutch and Danes all of whom had to be dealt with - the most powerful being
the French. The narrative covers all these events which involved the
regiment in frequent fighting. At the beginning of the book is a list of
the Regiment’s war services from 1756 to 1858 - no less than 83 wars,
battles and engagements, all are described in these pages and at the end
of each chapter is a select list of references or bibliography. From time
to time lists of officers serving in the regiment are given as are
casualties in various actions. But it is not just war. There are
interesting details on reorganisation, on pay and conditions of service,
on dress and establishments, all making this a very comprehensive history.
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The
Mounted Riflemen in Sinai & Palestine.
The author of this book served with the Auckland Mounted
Rifles which , with the Wellington and the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, a
Machine-gun troop, a field troop of Engineers, a Signal Troop, a Mounted
Field Ambulance and a mobile Veterinary section made up the New Zealand
Mounted Rifles Brigade. The approximate strength was 1,850 men and 2,200
horses. The brigade had fought at Gallipoli, where it had suffered
severely, and following the evacuation had returned to Egypt to become
part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. In April 1916 all the other NZ
troops which had been in Egypt since the evacuation of Gallipoli left for
France. The Mounted Rifles Brigade were then the only NZ troops remaining
on this front though other units were added subsequently. The brigade was
in the fighting from the start from the first major action, at Romani in
August 1916, right through to the end. The three regiments suffered a
total casualty figure of 219 officers and 3,035 other ranks of whom 1100
died.
The aim of the author was to give an account of the campaign, not just the
fighting, of which there was plenty, but also of the daily life, the
surroundings in which they operated and the places of historical interest
through which the men passed. There is quite clearly the feeling that the
work of the brigade did not receive the recognition it deserved and the CO
comments that there was little publicity back home, in fact there was a
fairly common opinion that the Mounted troops were merely tourists. the NZ
Division on the Western Front was what mattered. Moore has done a good job
in redressing the balance and gives an impressive account of the very
strenuous life of a Mounted Rifleman on active service and of the many
hardships and difficulties encountered.
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With
the Inniskilling Dragoons. The Record of A Cavalry Regiment During
the Boer War 1899- 1902. by Lieut-colonel J Watkins Yardley
The 6th Dragoons took part in the operations at Colesburg,
Relief of Kimberley and pursuit of Cronje. Following the fall of Pretoria
the regiment took part in General French’s drive through the Eastern
Transvaal
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The
Royal Leicestershire Regiment 17th Foot. A History of the Years 1928
to 1956. Edited by Brigadier W E Underhill, OBE.
This volume of the history of the regiment begins in 1928
and covers all the battalions, beginning with the years between the wars
with the 1st Battalion in India, where it was in action on the NW
Frontier, and the 2nd Battalion, after a couple of years in Rhine Army, at
home till 1938 when it was sent to Palestine. In 1936 the 4th (TA)
Battalion was converted to AA, becoming 44th (The Leicestershire Regiment)
AA Battalion RE equipped with searchlights, while the 5th Battalion, as in
the Great War, formed a second-line battalion, in May 1939, thus giving
1/5th and 2/5th Battalions.
The bulk of the book is taken up with WWII and the parts played by the
various battalions. It takes the campaigns in which the regiment was
involved on a chronological basis describing the operations undertaken by
whichever battalion was there. The last four chapters deal with the
post-war period, mainly the 1st Battalion in Hong Kong, Korea, BAOR, the
Sudan and Cyprus where the story ends.The regiment’s part in WWII begins
with the 1/5th in that short-lived and ill-fated campaign in Norway in
April 1940, following which the battalion was converted to a pre-OCTU
training unit in the UK. 2/5th, which was in 46th North Midland Division
throughout the war, joined the BEF in May 1940 and was evacuated from
Dunkirk. Subsequently it fought in Tunisia, Italy and Greece ending up in
Austria where it was disbanded in May 1946. The 2nd Battalion moved from
Palestine to the Western Desert in September 1940 as part of ‘Wavell’s
Thirty Thousand’ which routed the Italians in the early stages of that
campaign. In May 1941 it fought in Crete then in Syria against the Vichy
French and finally in Tobruk. In March 1942 the battalion sailed for
Colombo and then India where it was selected for the Chindits and fought
in Burma in the long-range penetration role. Its war ended in India. The
1st Battalion began the war in India and in January 1941 it went to Malaya
and was involved in the fighting withdrawal down the Malay peninsula to
Singapore which surrendered on 15 February 1942. The battalion suffered
heavy casualties during the retreat and on 20 December 1941 it was
amalgamated with the 2nd E Surrey to form ‘The British Battalion’.
There is a section on the experiences of this battalion in captivity. In
June 1942 the 8th Battalion, formed in October 1940, was redesignated 1st
Battalion and as such fought in NW Europe with 49th West Riding Division
through France, Belgium, Holland and into Germany.Finally, the 7th
Battalion was raised in July 1940. This battalion went to India and was
also chosen for the Chindits.
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Tunnellers.
The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World
War by Captain W Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman.
Undoubtedly the best and most comprehensive account of the
war underground, a history of the Tunnelling Companies, RE, during the
Great War. In all twenty-five British, three Australian, three Canadian
and one N Zealand company were formed. After a shaky start in December
1914 the miners of the BEF gradually overcame their opposite numbers in
the grim warfare under the trenches, and had finally defeated them by the
time of Messines in June 1917. But, as the narrative shows, the war for
the miners did not end there as they fought through the German Spring 1918
offensive and the BEF's Advance to Victory. Demolitions, booby traps,
neutralising anti-tank mines, even fighting as infantry (No 1 and No 2 RE
Battalions) were among the tasks and roles allotted to them.
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The
History of the First Seven Battalions : The Royal Irish Rifles (now the
Royal Ulster Rifles) in the Great War. by Cyril Falls, formerly
Captain. (1925)
The author of this book is the well-known historian whose
works include The First World War and The History of the 36th (Ulster)
Division. The regiment was unusual in that it had three Reserve
battalions, 3rd, 4th and 5th, none of which left the British Isles and
take up a brief chapter in this history. The 6th Battalion was formed in
Dublin in August 1914 and allotted to 29th Brigade of the 10th Irish
Division with which it served on Gallipol, in Macedonia, in Egypt and in
Palestine where it was disbanded in May 1918. 7th Bn was formed in Belfast
in September 1914 and went to the Western Front in February 1916 as part
of 48th Brigade, 16th Irish Division with which it remained till August
1917; in November 1917 it was disbanded and the personnel absorbed by the
2nd Battalion. The 1st and 2nd Battalions served on the Western Front.
The 1st Battalion was in Aden when war broke out and arrived back in the
UK in October where it was put in 25th Brigade of the newly formed 8th
Division which arrived in France in November 1914. It remained with the
brigade till February 1918 when it was transferred to the 36th Ulster
Division. The 2nd Battalion was in Tidworth with 7th Brigade, 3rd
Division. It went to France as part of the original BEF in August 1914 but
in October 1915 its brigade was transferred to 25th Division in exchange
for a brigade from that division. In February 1918 another posting moved
the battalion to the 36th Ulster Division with which it remained for the
rest of the war, in the same brigade as the 1st Battalion.
As may be expected with such a distinguished author these battalion
histories are authoritative and well written with outstanding maps. The
record is set out chronologically in a series of Books one to each year of
the war with chapters covering specific actions during that year.
Appendices list Honours and Awards issued to Officers, WOs, NCOs and men.
These are arranged in alphabetical order showing which battalion the
recipient was with, the specific award (including Mentioned in Despatches)
and the London Gazette date. Among the awards listed is the VC to a
Corporal Quigg, who is shown as being in the 2nd Battalion; he was not, he
was in the 12th Battalion and should not feature in this book . Another
appendix lists the Roll of Honour of officers (188 of them) with battalion
and date of death, other ranks deaths are given as a total - 3,118. These
figures are for the first seven battalions only.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6320.
189 pages. Price £18.50. |
Haunting
Years. by William Linton Andrews. (1930)
Then began, after a single shot that appeared to be a
signal, the hell fury of bombardment from 480 guns and howitzers. The
noise almost split our wits......There was no difficulty in making out the
German trenches. They had become long clouds of smoke and dust, flashing
continuously with shell-bursts, and with enormous masses of trench
material and bodies sailing high above the smoke cloud. Thus does the
author describe the opening barrage of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on
10th March 1915.
William Linton Andrews, a Yorkshire man living and working in Dundee, was
News Editor of the morning Dundee Advertiser when war broke out. Within a
couple of days he was one of a crowd swarming outside the local recruiting
office trying to enlist, and when he finally succeeded a few days later he
discovered he was not the regular soldier he aspired to be but a
Territorial. He tried to transfer but gave up when a dozen or so of his
colleagues from the paper marched in and joined him in the 1/4th Black
Watch. On 26th February 1915 the battalion arrived in France and joined
the Bareilly Brigade of the 7th (Meerut) Division in the Indian Corps and
within a few days the battalion was in action at Neuve Chapelle, the first
British offensive of the war. For nearly three years Linton served in the
trenches, rising to the rank of sergeant, and when he went home in
mid-January 1918 to attend an officers training course, he was one of the
very few men, possibly the only one, who had been with the battalion all
the time. Festubert, Loos, the Somme and Third Ypres - Andrews was in them
all and survived them all. As a journalist he has a eye for detail and a
facility with the pen that tells a wonderful story.
In my own copy of the book there is an inscription in the author’s
handwriting, signed by him; it reads: Written lest others forget our
comrades, for we never shall.
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Historical
Record and Regimental Memoir of the Royal Scots Fusiliers : Formerly known
as the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers. by James Clark, late
Sergeant. (1885)
This concise regimental history is prefaced bty half a
dozen handsome colour plates showing the regiment’s colours and
uniforms. Raised in 1678 under Charles II, the Royal Scots saw their first
action against their fellow Scots at the battle of Bothwell Bridge. Under
William III theyt fought the French at the battles of Walcourt, Steenkirk
and Linden. In the War of the Spanish Succession under the Duke of
Marlbrough they took part in the victories of Blenheim, Ramillies,
Oudenarde, and Malplaquet. Aftyer the Treaty of Utrecht ended the war,
they helped put down the 1715 Jacobite rebellion at the battle of
Sherrifmuir. In 1743, they were again fighting the French at Dettingen -
the last battle in which a reigning British king (George II) took part.
They later fought in the battle of Fontenoy, in which France defeated the
British. In 1745 they were hastily recalled from Flanders to put down
Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s rebellion, which they helped crush in
April 1746 at the battle of Culloden. They were engaged in the American
war of Independence, and subsequently fought the French in the Caribbean
and the Mediterranean., before returning to America where they took part
in the burning of Washington in the War of 1814. After garrison duty in
India and Ireland, the Fusiliers took part in the Crimean War, and were
present at the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and the siege of
Sebastopol. In 1879 the 2nd Battalion helped defeat the Zulus at the
battle of Ulundi.
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Historical
Record of the 14th (King's) Hussars 1900 - 1922. by Brig J Gilbert Browne
and Lieut Col E J Bridges. Edited by Major A T Millet. (1932)
This is the second volume of the regimental history,
which begins at the start of the south African War, the end of which is
where the first volume finishes; thus there is an overlap. The
reason for this is that the war was still being fought when the Regiment's
record in it was written, and by the time this present volume was written
many facts and details had come to light which could not be obtained for
inclusion in the earlier volume. This account ends with the
amalgamation of the Regiment with the 20th Hussars in 1922, a year that
saw the disappearance of a number of cavalry regiments in a series of
amalgamations; 1922 was to the cavalry what 1870 and Cardwell had been to
the infantry. The dedication is not only to the 14th Hussars who
gave their lives during the Great War but also "to the Horses which
carried the Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Regiment so
gallantly". This is a superb history, full of detail, not just
about battles and engagements (plenty of them) but also about life on a
cavalry regiment in peacetime in those years so long ago. Much of it
has been contributed by officers and warrant officers who are introduced
in the preface with details of their contributions. Most of the book
is concerned with the S African War and the Great War but there is plenty
about peacetime soldiering at home and in India where the Regiment was in
1914 and from where they went to Mesopotamia in November 1915 joining the
6th (Indian) Cavalry Brigade. In January 1918 the Regiment was
detached from the Brigade and sent to Persia where they stayed for the
rest of the war, returning to Mesopotamia at the end of the year.
The Regiment arrived back in England in April 1919 nearly thirteen years
after sailing for India. There are twenty-five appendices containing
a wealth of information about the 14th Hussars : changes in establishment;
Roll of Honour of officer for S African and Great War and of NCOs and Men
for the Great War; Honours and awards for both wars; succession of
Colonels of the Regiment, COs, Adjutants and WOs since 1900; service
records of Colonels and Lt Cols 1900 - 1922 showing officers who served -
and much else besides. Unusually the contents are shown not as a
series of chapters but as a chronology, year by year with headings for
every significant event. And finally there is a good index.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6721.
586 pages. Price £22. |
Historical
Record of the 2nd (now 80th), or Royal Tyrone Fusilier Regiment of
Militia, from the Embodiment in 1793 to the Present Time (1872). by
Quartermaster John Core.
This is an account of an Irish Mlitia regiment embodied in
1793 in the county of Tyrone and to be known as the ‘2nd, or Royal
Tyrone Regiment of Militia,’ a title it held till 1855. The Regimental
HQ was in Strabane, the CO was The Marquis of Abercorn and the nominal
roll of the 28 officers (including the Chaplain) is given. The
‘here-today-gone-tomorrow’ aspect of the Militia is reflected in the
fortunes of the Royal Tyrones. It was disembodied in 1802, reformed eight
months later in 1803, disembodied again in 1816 (the threat posed by
Napoleon had vanished), and was re-embodied once more in 1855, disembodied
in 1856, re-embodied in 1857, disembodied in 1858 at which point I have
become as confused as I imagine the officers and men must have been. But
this account does give a good feel for soldiering with the militia: terms
of service, dress, equipment, pay, bounties, parades, recruitment into the
regular army, regular commissions for officers and splendid examples of
correspondence and written orders. There are frequent lists of officers
present for duty, in fact at each embodiment and disembodiment as well as
regimental strength figures. I nearly forgot: the regiment received its
Fusilier title in April 1855 becoming the Royal Tyrone Fusilier Regiment
of Militia.
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Historical
Record of the Fifty-Second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry) From the
Year 1755 to the Year 1858. Compiled under the Dircetion of the
Committee and edited by W S Moorsom, late Captain. (1860)
The Oxfordshire Light Infantry was one of a number of
infantry regiments raised on the eve of the Seven Years War (1756 - 1763)
and initially numbered 54th Foot; two years later, in 1757, it was
renumbered 52nd. In 1782 the line regiments were given territorial
affiliations and the 52nd became the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regt of
Foot. In 1803 it was designated Light Infantry and its title changed
accordingly to that shown in the title of this history. During the
hundred years or so covered in this historical record the regiment served
in Canada, America, India (before and during the Mutiny), Ceylon, the
Peninsula, France and the Netherlands. The first ten years were
spent in England and Ireland till, in 1765 the regiment sailed for
Canada. It took part in the American War of Independence in which it
suffered considerable casualties and finally returned to England at the
end of 1778. There followed a spell of fifteen years in India during
which it was involved in the Mysore War against Tippoo Sahib. From
1808 to 1814 the regiment was heavily engaged in the Peninsular War, of
the twenty-three battle honours awarded during that campaign the
Oxfordshires received thirteen and their losses amounted to 1,629
according to the casualty tables shown in the book. It was at
Waterloo where it distinguished itself in its flank attack against the
advancing Imperial Guard (The Old Guard) as it closed with the British
Guards Brigade. The record closes with the return of the regiment
from a second spell in India during which it was in action during the
Indian Mutiny. This book is set out on a year-by-year basis; there
are no chapters, just date headings starting from 1755 with the narrative
describing all the events involving the regiment in that year. Some
are very short, as , for example 1781: "The 52nd regiment, in 1781,
were encamped at Rye.". Other years, such as the years of the
Peninsular War, are full of detail, running into many pages and include
correspondence, divisional orders, extracts from despatches and so
forth. Casualty details appear in the text, officers named and
sometimes non-commissioned ranks. An appendix provides biographical
notes on a number of officers and on a few non-commissioned officers,
indicating where they are mentioned in the text, as in an index.
Unfortunately there is no separate index, and as there is no contents list
or chapter headings, it is not always easy to find a particular action or
event - unless you already know the date.
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Historical
Record of the First, or the Royal Regiment of Dragoons. by General
De Ainslie, colonel of the Regiment (1887)
The regiment originated in the Troops of Horse engaged in
the defence of Tangier from 1661 and was at first designated the Tangier
Horse. In 1683 it was redesignated The King’s Own Royal Regiment of
Dragoons and a few years later the ‘King’s Own’ was dropped and from
1690 the title became the Royal Regiment of Dragoons. In 1751 the
designation changed again, to the 1st (Royal) Dragoons and in May 1961 it
became The Royal Dragoons (1st Dragoons). Finally, in 1969 it joined the
Household Cavalry by amalgamating with the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
and becoming The Blues and Royals.
This history gives an account of the Regiment from 1661 to October 1886
during which time it served with distinction in many campaigns from
Tangier to the Crimea and Egypt (1884-85). At Waterloo the Regiment
captured one of the two French Eagles taken that day, the other one was
taken by the 2nd Dragoons, The Royal Scots Greys. The Regiment also took
part in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaklava, a very brief but
very successful affair though less well known than the charge of the Light
Brigade. Although the Royals did not serve in India nor in the East they
saw plenty of action at home (the Monmouth Rebellion, the Boyne, the
Jacobites) and on the continent - the Netherlands, Spain, Germany and the
Peninsula; ten battle honours had been awarded by the time this account
comes to a close. To finish there are biographical notes of all twenty
Colonels of the Regiment followed by a most comprehensive 45-page index.
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A
History of the 2nd Battalion The Monmouthshire Regiment. by Capt G A
Brett. (1933)
The Monmouthshire Regiment of the Great War was a
Territorial Force regiment, formed in 1908 when the TF came into existence
and in 1914 it consisted of three battalions. As in the case of the other
TF regiments second and third line battalions were raised in 1914/1915 and
the 1/2nd Battalion was the first to go to France, landing on 7 November
1914 thus becoming one of the few TF units to wear the 1914 Star. On
arrival in France the battalion joined 12th Brigade, 4th Division but in
May 1915, due to heavy casualties sustained by 1/1st and 1/3rd Battalions
which arrived out in February, the three battalions were combined for a
brief spell. In July 1915 1/2nd resumed its identity and returned to 12th
Brigade. In May 1916 the battalion was converted to pioneers and from then
on served as the pioneer battalion for the 29th Division (just returned
from Gallipoli).This history is of particular interest in that it is the
story of a battalion that fought as infantry in 1914/15 and then, for the
rest of the war, as pioneers, and there are not too many histories of
pioneer battalions. The 29th Division was one of those selected to march
into Germany and its pioneer battalion went with it. Appendices give the
list of Honours and Awards (they did well with twenty DCMs) and the Roll
of Honour (540 dead) with names listed alphabetically by ranks. There is
also the succession of Honorary Colonels, COs and Adjutants going back to
1861and other information. The first three chapters tell the story of the
Monmouths from 1859, when the Volunteer Force, the predecessor of the TF,
was formed, to the outbreak of war in 1914.
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Historical
Record of the Forty-Fourth, or the East Essex Regiment of Foot. by
Thomas Carter, Adjutant General's Office (1864)
This history covers the period from the formation of the
regiment in 1741 to its linking with the West Essex (56th Foot) in 1881,
when it became the 1st Battalion the Essex Regiment. The East Essex
began life as 55th Foot but in 1748 it was renumbered 44th, and this
history is presented as a chronology, a year-by-year record of the
regiment's services. There are no chapters; the list of contents
form a diary showing principal events in each year, some years far more
eventful than others. The narrative shows in the margin of each page
the year in which the events being described took place, beginning with
1741 and the raising of the regiment, and finishing in 1881. In 1803
a second battalion was formed but disbanded in 1816 after Waterloo in
which battle it fought as well as in several battles of the Peninsular
War. The 1st Battalion, meanwhile, was fighting on the other side of
the Atlantic in the war against the United States. There is plenty
of detail in this history, one incident at Waterloo making unpleasant
reading. Ensign Christie (not long promoted from Sergeant-Major) was
carrying one of the colours when he was charged by a French Lancer and
severely wounded by a lance thrust that entered his left eye and
penetrated to the lower jaw; despite the agony of his wound he still
managed to frustrate the Frenchman's efforts to make off with the colour.
From time to time names of officers present for duty are listed and the
other rank strength. The regiment took part in the Crimean War, in
the campaigns in Burma and in Afghanistan (1841/42) where, in the retreat
from Kabul the regiment lost 22 and officers and 632 other ranks killed
(out of a total of 684); it also took part in the China War 1860 (Taku
Forts). Of the sixty years from 1822 to 1881 the regiment was abroad
for fifty. Appendices list the succession of Colonels of the
regiment and commanding officers, in the latter case giving brief notes on
service details. They also provide the number, rank and name of all
those soldiers who served in the trenches before Sebastopol throughout the
siege, of those who were in the Crimea the whole time, and those who
distinguished themselves in the Crimea and in China.
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Historical
Records of the 14th Regiment Now the Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire)
Regiment) From its Formation in 1689 to 1892. by Capt H O'Donnell
(1893)
Despite the title the West Yorks came into existence in
June 1685 at the time of the Monmouth Rebellion and, as then was the
practice, was known after the man who raised it, Sir Edward Hales. Of
immediate interest is the establishment of the regiment as at January 1686
showing the rates of pay for each rank and the numbers authorised, and the
Regimental Roll of officers in 1687, the earliest roll that can be found.
Hales unfortunately picked the wrong side in 1688 by supporting James II
against William of Orange and ended up in the Tower; he was replaced by
William Beveridge, appointed by the Prince of Orange who, in February 1689
was crowned William III with his consort Queen Mary. In 1692 the regiment
went on active service for the first time, joining the army in Flanders
where it gained its first battle honour - Namur 1695. In 1751 with the
introduction of the system of foot numbers the regiment became the 14th
Regiment of Foot. and a few years later, in 1764, King George III directed
their badge should be the White Horse of Hanover.
Following the decision to affiliate regiments to counties to improve
recruiting the regiment was, in 1782, styled the Fourteenth, or
Bedfordshire Regiment of Foot , changed some twenty-five years later to
Buckinghamshire; it wasn’t till the reforms of 1881 that the regiment
became the West Yorks. A second battalion was formed in 1804 and between
them they served in wars and expeditions across the globe, all carefully
described. Lists of officers present for duty in either battalion are
regularly featured - for example the complete roll of regimental officers
as in the Army Lists of June 1873 and January 1893 are reproduced. The
book is arranged on a year by year basis, each year being a heading. There
is a detailed contents list which is a great help in tracing events and
appendices include biographies of Colonels of the Regiment from 1685 and
of other eminent officers, copies of regimental correspondence and other
matters of regimental interest. This is a very good example of what a
regimental history should be.
Two hundred years in the history of a two-battalion
county regiment with plenty of detail on its part in wars and expeditions
and frequent lists of officers present for duty at various times.
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Historical
Records of the 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry: Now the 1st Battalion Duke
of Cornwalls Light Infantry, from the Formation of the Regiment. by Col G
C Swiney. Compiled from the Orderly Room Records and other sources.
A history of the 32nd (Cornwall) Light Infantry, proudly
narrating its service throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally
formed as Marines under the ill-fated Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel -
later lost with his flagship in a wreck off the Cornish coast - the
regiments first major action was the sudden capture and subsequent
defence of the Rock of Gibraltar in 1703 during the War of the Spanish
Succession. It later mounted raids on the west coast of France, was
disbanded at the wars end with the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, only to be
promptly reformed in 1715 during the Jacobite emergency. In 1743, during
the War of the Austrian Succession, the Regiment took part in the
victorious battle of Dettingen against France - the last battle in which a
British monarch ( George II) personally led his army. In 1745, during the
same war, the Regiment fought at the battle of Fontenoy in which
France’s Marshal Saxe defeated the allied forces of Britain, Hanover,
Austria and Holland under the young Duke of Cumberland. The Regiment
fought in Europe in the Seven Years’ War with France, but its finest
hour probably came during the Peninsula War,
Having served as Marines during Nelson’s naval victory over the Danes at
Copenhagen in 1807, the 32nd embarked for Spain and were present at the
battles of Roleia and VImiera under Sir John Moore and in the retreat on
and battle of Corunna in 1808. Returning to Spain in 1811, the 32nd were
present at the Sieges of Roderigo and Burgois and the battles of
Salamanca, Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes under Wellington. In 1815, the 32nd
fought at the battle of Quatre Bras and Waterloo itself. In the mid- 19th
century, the Regiment was posted to India where it was present at the
Siege of Mooltan and the battle of Goojerat, before helping to quell the
Indian Mutiny at Cawnpore and Lucknow. Later in the 19th century it saw
service in Egypt.. The author, Col. Swiney, has gallantlyu filled the gaps
caused by the repeated disappearence of regimental records with the
diaries and recollections of brother officers. The book is plentifully
illustrated with ten fine colour plates showing the evolution of the
regimental uniform; notes on its costume and equipment; ten black and
white pictures, and fifteen appendices on such interesting subjects as the
regiment’s VC holders, its roll of officers, and biographies and memoirs
of its colonels and officers. An unusually full and complete account of a
distinguished unit
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Historical
Records of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 3rd Foot 1914 - 1919. by R
S H Moody (1922)
During the Great War eight battalions of the regiment went
on active service and another seven (including 1st Garrison Battalion)
served at home. No less than 32,000 men passed through the ranks of the
regiment of whom some 6,000 died; forty-eight battle honours were awarded
and one VC. Appendices contain separate rolls of honour of officers and
other ranks with names grouped alphabetically by ranks; all ranks list of
honours and awards and foreign awards, and separate lists of Mention in
Despatches. The 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions served on the Western
Front, the 2nd Battalion in Macedonia with 28th Division following ten
months in France and Belgium, the 1/4th in India and Aden, 1/5th in India
and Mesopotamia and finally the 10th Battalion (formed in Egypt in Feb
1917 from two converted Kent yeomanry regiments) fought in Palestine and
on the Western Front with 74th (Yeomanry) Division.
Apart from one chapter describing the raising of wartime battalions and
the initial disposition of the two TF battalions, and one on their
affiliated regiment, the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada, the chapters of
this history each cover well-defined periods of the war in the various
theatres in which the parts played by all battalions involved are
recorded. The groundwork or skeleton is based on battalion, brigade or
divisional war diaries, fleshed out by personal narratives and diaries
provided by men who had fought and survived. Where possible, the names of
the officers who became casualties in any action are given in the text
after the record of the battle, but only the number in the case of other
ranks. Again, wherever possible the recipients of honours (all ranks) have
been named in the account as news of their decorations reached their
battalion. A good history.
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Historical
Records of the Seventh or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. by W Wheater
(1875)
The Regiment was raised on 11 June 1685 by Lord Dartmouth
under the authority of King James II (commissioning letter is reproduced
in the book). Equipped with an improved kind of musket, called a Fusil, it
was regarded superior to the other line regiments with special duties at
the Tower as reflected in its title the ‘Ordnance Regiment.’ It was
also referred to by the king as ‘Our Royal Regiment of Fuziliers’ and
that name has stuck ever since. This record covers the period from the
raising of the Regiment to 1875 and it is highly unusual in its
arrangement in that it consists of a year-by-year account; there is no
contents list, there are no chapters, it simply starts in 1685 and forges
ahead with an account of the regiment’s fortunes each year thereafter.
Some entries are models of brevity, 1716-1717 for example simply notes
“The regiment continued at Minorca” - that’s two years service
accounted for in five words. Other years, however, such as those covering
the Peninsular War, are pages long and some descriptions reveal the
ferocity of the fighting. An eyewitness of the 2nd Battalion in action at
Talavera records:- “Some of the little enclosures in front of the right
of the British [2 RF] were choked with French dead; and in one little
field more than four hundred bodies were counted.”
But it is not just the battles. Here is a window onto the history of the
British army. Here are recorded
all the changes of two centuries - changes in dress, in equipment, in
weapons, in organization, in establishments, in pay, in cost of commission
by purchase. And of course we read what befell the Royal Fusiliers, the
moves abroad and at home (52 different stations at home), battalion
dispositions, strengths, names of officers serving, casualties, awards,
inspections, parades. One memorial speaks volumes of hazards of overseas
service: “Sacred to the memory of one hundred and thirty-four officers
and privates, eight women and twenty-one children, who died whilst the
Regiment was stationed at Saugor [India] from January 1866, to December
1869.” The sergeants erected their own memorial. Then the bonus at the
end: the names of every officer who served in the Regiment during these
two hundred or so years with his record of service, listed in alphabetical
order. A truly impressive piece of work.
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Histories
of 251 Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914 -
1918). US War Dept 1920
Compiled with truly Teutonic thoroughness by the US
Intelligence Department in 1920, and drawn from the intelligence reports
of all Allied nations, this is a record of the changing German war machine
year by year during the course of the Great War. Indispensible to the
serious historian of the conflict, it is a dense and detailed volume,
written in clear, non-nonsense language.
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The
History of the 1/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding)
Regiment 1914 - 1919. by Capt P G Bales (1920)
This is a very good and informative history of a
Territorial battalion during the Great War, written by an officer who
served in it as Intelligence Officer, Assistant Adjutant and Adjutant and
who for more than two years was responsible for keeping the War Diary. He
has made good use of this responsibility and in a series of appendices has
produced the sort of detail not often seen in a battalion or regimental
history. There is the battalion itinerary which charts every movement and
location with dates from 4th August 1914 to 19th June 1919 with
explanatory notes and comments, such as: “28.2.16. [Move to] Right
section, Authuille Trenches. Relieved 1/4th Bn KOYLI.” Another lists
every officer who served in the battalion noting when they joined (the
originals are identified) and what befell them, with dates; e.g. killed,
wounded, sick, transferred etc and then there is a similar list for all
the Warrant Officers and Company Quarter Master Sergeants, I do not
remember seeing such a list in any other history. There is a summary of
casualties which shows the various periods of time over which they were
incurred and the relevant sector of the front - a total of 98 officers
2,733 other ranks. There is also a list of Honours and Awards, which
includes one VC, and it is made clear that only those conferred on
personnel for services rendered while actually serving with the Battalion
are included. There is no complete battalion Roll of Honour nor,
unfortunately, is there an index.
4th DW was one of the regiment’s three Territorial battalions (the other
two were 5th and 6th), based in Halifax, Yorks, part of the 2nd West
Riding Brigade (later 147th), West Riding Division (later 49th). For the
first three months of the war it was on coast defence near Hull and
Grimsby before moving to Doncaster, where it remained till embarking for
France on 14th April 1915. It fought on the Western Front for the rest of
the war, staying in the same brigade and division. The story of the
battalion, written primarily for the men who served with it, is well told,
based on official documents, supplemented by personal recollections of
many officers and other ranks; the sketch maps are clear and most of them
concentrate on the battalion’s front as opposed to the general area-type
maps. Well recommended.
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The
History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914 -
1919. by Everard Wyrall (1927)
On the outbreak of war the Somerset Light Infantry (Som
LI) consisted of two Regular, one Special Reserve (3rd) and two
Territorial battalions (4th and 5th). During the course of the war the two
Territorial battalions each formed a second and third line battalion
(2/4th, 3/4th, 2/5th and 3/5th), and in addition four Service battalions (Kitchener)
were raised, 6th to 9th, two Home Service battalions, 10th and 13th, and
two more Territorial battalions, 11th and 12th. Finally a Garrison
battalion was formed and sent to India in February 1917. Other Som LI
battalions served on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia, India and
Palestine; deaths totalled 4,760, of whom 269 were officers, and one VC
was won (Pte T.H Sage, 8th Battalion). The 2nd Som LI was stationed in
India throughout the war. In a footnote on page 1 of this history is a
comment to the effect that the 2nd Battalion was unfortunately (my
italics) one of these; in hindsight there are those who might think they
were very lucky, their deaths totalled 43 compared with 1,315 of the 1st
Battalion.
The 1st Battalion was in Colchester, part of 11th Brigade, 4th Division
which arrived in France on 22 August 1914, in time to fight in the battle
of Le Cateau during the retreat from Mons. It remained on the Western
Front in that brigade and division throughout the war. 1/4th saw action in
Mesopotamia, 2/4th joined 34th Division in France in July 1918, becoming
divisional pioneer battalion. 1/5th went first to India but in May1917 it
went to Palestine where it became part of the newly formed 75th Division.
2/5th went to India and stayed there, 6th, 7th and 8th Service Battalions
all served on the Western front, the 9th became a Reserve battalion and
remained in the UK along with the two Home Service battalions. The 11th
also went to France, in May 1918, to the 59th Division while the 12th
Battalion was converted from a yeomanry regiment (W Somerset) to infantry
in Egypt in January 1917, part of 74th Division, with which it went to
France in May 1918.
Wyrall arranges his record of the regiment in chronological order,
following the course of the war from the arrival of the1st Battalion in
France. As he describes the operations and events he indicates in the
margin the date of the action he is writing about with the identity of the
battalion involved; operations in other theatres have their own chapters.
Appendices list, by name, Honours and Awards including Mention in
Despatches, promotions for service in the field, summary of other rank
casualties (deaths) in each battalion (officers are totalled together),
brief records of service.
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History
of the 12th (The Suffolk Regiment) 1685 - 1913. by Lieut Col E
A H Webb (1914)
King James II came to the throne in 1685 and was
immediately faced with threats of rebellion by the Dukes of Monmouth and
Argyll which necessitated an increase in the regular to meet them.
Accordingly additional cavalry and infantry regiments were raised
including the Suffolk, which formed at Norwich as the Duke of Norfolk's
Regiment of Foot. The title then changed with the Colonel's name
till 1751 when Foot numbers were introduced and the regiment became 12th
Foot, adding East Suffolk in 1782 and finally, in 1881, became the Suffolk
Regiment. This is a very detailed history by an experienced author
who observes that he was much assisted by the wealth of personal diaries,
journal and varied reminiscences of the old 12th, probably more than
possessed by any other regiment, all of which were put at his disposal,
and have been put to good use. There are one or two informative
appendices, such as the succession of COs and Adjutants and a chapter on
uniform, equipment and the Colours. Following the accession of
William and Mary to the throne (1688) the Regiment was sent to Ireland to
fight the rebels supporting ex-King James and took part in the Battle of
the Boyne. In 1743 the 12th Foot gained its first battle honour,
Dettingen, the last occasion on which the British sovereign led his troops
into battle. Six years later they were one of the six infantry
regiments at Minden, one of the great victories over the French, which is
still celebrated today by the six regiments (or their descendants) with a
ceremonial parade in which the drums parade garlanded with roses and
personnel wear a rose in their headgear. The regimental cap badge of
a castle superscribed 'Gibraltar' reflects their defence of the Rock
during the four year siege 1779 - 1783. During the almost 230 years
covered by this history the Suffolks served in India (Seringapatam is a
principal battle honour), in Africa during the Kaffir and Boer Wars, in
New Zealand in the Maori War, on the NW Frontier in the 2nd Afghan War, in
the West Indies and Mauritius. Colour plates depict uniforms, battle
scenes and the Colours in 1686 and 1849 (1st Bn)
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The
History of the Canterbury Regiment. N.Z.E.F. 1914 -
1919. by Capt david Ferguson (1921)
The Canterbury Battalion was formed on the outbreak of war
recruited from the four existing Territorial Regiments in the province:
1st (Canterbury), 2nd (South Canterbury), 12th (Nelson) and 13th (North
Canterbury and Westland). The four companies in the battalion were
numbered and named after the four regiments, a system unique to the NZEF,
which explains why they were numbered 1st, 2nd, 12th and 13th. When the
2nd and 3rd Battalions were formed the same company numbering was used.
The battalion arrived in Egypt with the New Zealand Infantry Brigade in
December 1914. The Turks attacked the Suez Canal at the beginning of
February 1915 and part of the battalion was in action, suffering only one
man wounded. On 25th April 1915 the battalion landed on Gallipoli with the
New Zealand Brigade and there it fought throughout the campaign till taken
off in December 1915 and transported back to Egypt. On 1st March 1916 the
2nd NZ Infantry Brigade was formed and one of the battalions created for
it was the 2nd Canterbury; in April 1916 the NZ Division arrived in France
where it served until the armistice and then took part in the march to
Germany. This is a straightforward account, intended, as Ferguson
explains, to give in a clear and concise manner a record of the doings of
the Canterbury Regiment from formation to disbandment and he has certainly
done a first class job. It consists mainly of a compilation of battalion
War Diaries and those of brigade and division, supplemented by personal
recollections of various officers. As a general rule he has not attempted
to describe the dangers and hardships of war, no dramatic language or
picture painting of dramatic events; the result is a factual unvarnished
story. But the indexes are a godsend to researchers and historians alike.
One shows the dispositions of the Canterbury battalions and their
companies in front line trenches in France, giving date into the line,
date out, whom they relieved, and by whom they were relieved. Another
shows the locations of the battalions when out of the line giving the
place, when they arrived and when they left. There is a list of Honours
and Awards with date of the London Gazette and the Roll of Honour is in
two parts, first up to the arrival of the NZEF in France and second after
the arrival in France, with date and how the man died.
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The
History of the 15th The King's Hussars 1914 - 1922. by Lord Carnock
(1932)
In August 1914 the organisation of the infantry division
called for a reconnaissance element which was provided by a squadron of
cavalry, and it was the role of the 15th Hussars (15 H) to provide that
squadron for each of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Infantry Divisions. The
other three divisions of the original BEF were served by squadrons of the
19th Hussars and so it may seem appropriate that when, in 1922, the number
of cavalry regiments were reduced by amalgamations, the 15th combined with
the 19th to form a new regiment - the 15th/19th Hussars. When war
came in 1914, 15 H had been back in England nearly two year after an
overseas tour of fourteen years, and by 18th August the three squadrons
were in France with their divisions. The first four chapters
describe the involvement of the squadrons in the early fighting - Mons and
the retreat, Marne, Aisne and Ypres. In April 1915 the regiment was
re-formed as a single unit and posted to the newly formed 9th Cavalry
Brigade in 1st Cavalry Division (as was 19 H); their places in the three
infantry divisions were taken by Yeomanry. For the rest of the war
the Regiment remained in the 9th Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division, on the
Western Front and fought in many actions as twenty-three Battle Honours
testify. They were awarded one of the earliest VCs to be won, Cpl
Garforth. There are five appendices, one of them is a diary of
marches, billets and bivouacs of the regiment from 37th July 1914 to 6th
September 1919 and another most useful one gives the strengths of the
Regiment (officers and other ranks) on various dates between 29th April
1915 and 31st March 1921; figures are also given for riding, draught and
pack horses and mules. The casualty lists show not only fatalities
but also wounded, identifying those wounded more than once, and those
missing. There is a list of officers of the Regiment and attached
officers who served between 1914 and 1922, and a list of NCOs and men who
were commissioned during the war. There is an index.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6722.
270 pages. Price £18 |
List
of British Officers Taken Prisoner in the Various Theatres of War, Aug
1914 to Nov 1918. (1919)
First printed 1919 for private circulation and republished
in 1988,& 1998 this rare volume was compiled from records kept by
Messrs Cox & Co.’s Enquiry Office, which opened in Sep 1914 in
Craig’s Court, Charing Cross and gained full support of the War Office.
Some 8,700 names are listed, including officers of the RAF, RNAS, RN Div
and Dominions. Names are shown by regiments/corps and by battalions within
regiments in the order of capture. Deaths in captivity are noted together
with dates reported missing and dates of repatriation. The index lists
every name in alphabetical order. A very valuable source of information.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP3584.
218 pages. Price £22 |
History
of the 1st and 2nd Battalions. The Leicestershire Regiment in the
great War. by Colonel H C Wylly (1928)
Despite its title, this history begins the story of the
regiment from where Webb’s history (1688 -1910) finishes and takes it on
to the end of 1927, though the bulk of the book is, of course, devoted to
the Great War. Each battalion is treated separately. There are no Rolls of
Honour nor lists of Honours and Awards, but casualties are given in the
text following periods of action, officers by name, other ranks by totals.
Gallantry awards are also described in the text with recipients named.
Details of drafts joining the battalions are also given as they occur,
again officers by name, other ranks by totals and, very useful, officers
serving in the battalions at various specified times are listed.
When war broke out the 1st Battalion was stationed in Fermoy, Ireland,
part of 16th Brigade, 6th Division, which arrived in France, the last of
the original six regular divisions to do so, in the first half of
September 1914, and joined the BEF on the Aisne. The battalion remained on
the Western Front in 6th Division for the whole of the war. It fought at
First Ypres, Hooge, the Somme, Hill 70, Cambrai and during the German
offensives of 1918 it was in action at St Quentin, Bailleul, Kemmel and
the Scherpenberg; during the final advance to victory it took part in
various actions. Total dead amounted to 41 officers 987 other ranks. After
the war the battalion served in BAOR and in 1920 it was sent to Athlone, S
Ireland, at the time of the “troubles” when it suffered several
casualties, including the CO’s wife, wounded in an ambush. In 1923 the
battalion moved to Aldershot, and in January 1925 it went to Egypt. In
November 1927 the battalion sailed for India where it took over the
garrison in Kamptee, Central Provinces.
The 2nd Battalion was in Ranikhet, India, in August 1914 and went to
France with the Indian Corps in the Meerut Division in which it served
throughout the war. It fought on the Western Front from October 1914 till
November 1915, winning a VC at Neuve Chapelle. In November 1915 the Meerut
Division left France for Mesopotamia where the battalion arrived in the
first week of December 1915. For the next two years it fought in many
actions in Mesopotamia including the reoccupation of Kut and the capture
of Baghdad in 1917. At the end of 1917 the division was moved to Palestine
where it fought its final battles at Megiddo in September 1918. Total
battalion dead numbered 33 officers and 1030 other ranks. In July 1919 it
was sent to India where it served for the next four years in Delhi and
Jhansi. In October 1923 it went to Khartoum in response to unrest in the
Sudan involving Egyptian and Sudanese troops.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6057.
215 pages. Price £18 |
A
History of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridges Own), by Hon J W
Fortescue ( 1895)
According to the dedication the Regiment was raised in
1759 in honour of general Wolfe who, in that same year, had died in the
moment of victory over the French of wounds received at Quebec on the
Plains of Abraham. This history takes the story of the 17th Lancers
from 1759 to 1894. Originally designated 18th Light Dragoons the
number was changed to 17th in 1763, to 3rd three years later and back to
17th three years after that. Finally, in 1822 the designation 'Light
Dragoons' was changed to 'Lancers'. For the first fifteen or so
years of its existence the Regiment served at home, six years of that time
in Ireland from where, in 1775, they embarked for Boston, the first
cavalry regiment selected for service in America and where it first saw
action in the War of Independence. Eight years later, in 1783, the
Regiment returned to Ireland. There followed a short spell (two
years) in the West Indies and in 1806/07 the Regiment took part in the
ill-fated expedition to S America. They hardly got back from S
America (January 1808) when they were sent off to India (February 1808)
where they served for the next fifteen years during which time they saw
action in the Pindari War which lasted some two years. During its
time in India the 17th, which arrived in Calcutta in 1808 790 strong, lost
26 officers and 796 men from disease and climatic conditions alone while
it had received 929 officers and men in the same period. The next
major campaign was the Crimea in which the Regiment took part in the
famous charge of the Light Brigade; three VCs were awarded for gallantry
during the campaign. The Regiment arrived back in Ireland in May
1856 and in November the following year it sailed for India among the
reinforcements sent out in response to the crisis caused by the Indian
Mutiny; another VC was won. Apart from the descriptions of the
Regiment in action there is a good deal of domestic interest such as rates
of pay, clothing scales, ration scales and two excellent appendices to
close the record: one is a complete list of officers shown on a year by
year basis from 1759 to 1894, the other is the itinerary of the Regiment
from 1759.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5314.
124 pages. Price £24.95 |
History
of the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt) in the Boer
War 1899 - 1902. by Capt Charles J L Gibson.
This history is introduced by the regiment’s most famous
officer, General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien whose picture appears on the
front cover. He gives an outline of the events of the war prior to the
arrival of the battalion in December 1899, two months after the outbreak
of hostilities. When war was declared the battalion was stationed in Malta
(Smith Dorrien commanding), where it was joined by a draft of 8 officers
and 356 reservists and immediately sailed for S Africa, proceeding down
the east coast with a brief stopover at Zanzibar - the first British
battalion to set foot on that island. 1st Sherwood Foresters arrived in
Durban in December 1899 during what came to be known as “Black Week”
when the British Army suffered three heavy defeats at Stormberg,
Magersfontein and Colenso. The battalion remained in S Africa throughout
the war and the extent of its activities are reflected in the clasps to
the Queen’s South Africa Medal for which its members could qualify -
Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Johannesburg and Diamond Hill.
The battalion also provided manpower for two Mounted Infantry (MI)
companies, 1st and 2nd Derbyshire and their exploits are also recorded.
Two VCs were won, one by the battalion, the other by 2nd MI Company.
This is a very full account and there are some useful appendices, one
detailing the casualties by rank and name and place, and in the case of
the wounded stating whether severe or slight, followed by a summary in
tabular form. This shows a total of 258 casualties which includes 118
deaths, 65 due to enemy action and 53 due to disease. Another appendix
lists all officers, NCOs and Drummers who embarked for active service with
the battalion, and another gives details of those recommended by the CO
for their service and what award was given. This table includes Mentioned
in Despatches with date and author of the Despatch (Roberts or Kitchener).
Finally there is a good index.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6059.
236 pages. Price £14.95 |
A
History of the 22nd (Service)Battalion Royal Fusiliers (Kensington).
by Major Christopher Stone DSO MC (1923)
The battalion was raised by the Mayor and Borough of
Kensington as a Service (Kitchener) battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (RF)
on 11 Sep 1914 at the White City. In June 1915 it became part of 99th
Brigade 33rd Division, along with 17th, 23rd and 24th Battalions RF. The
battalion went to France in November 1915 with 33rd Division, but almost
immediately on arrival the brigade was transferred to the 2nd Division, a
regular division, where the battaion remained till it was disbanded in Feb
1918 when the BEF reduced the number of brigades in a battalion from four
to three.The editor stresses this book was compiled for the surviving
members of the battalion, some 410 died, a VC was won by L/Sgt F.W Palmer
(also MM) near Courcelette in Feb 1917. There is a Roll of Honour in which
the dates of death of the officers is given, but in the case of other
ranks, they are grouped by companies for each year of the war without
number, rank or date of death. There is also a list of recipients of
honours and awards, headed by Palmer with his VC. In this list, which
includes mentioned in despatches, names are grouped alphabetically for
each medal, but no number, rank or date of award.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5334. 79 pages. Price
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History
of the Queen's Royal (West Surrey) Regiment in the Great War. by Col
H C Wylly (1925)
The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) was the second
oldest regiment of the line, the 2nd Foot. This volume of the regimental
history is the story of the regiment in the Great War during which the
original five battalions (two regular, one special reserve and two
territorial) expanded to twenty-seven, five of which were raised as Labour
battalions. In June 1917 these were taken over by the Labour Corps which
had been formed two months earlier. Of the remaining battalions eleven
went on active service, the rest did not leave the UK. This book deals
with all of them, taking each battalion in turn, so there is little room
for detail, especially in the case of those battalions that did not serve
overseas, which are dealt with very briefly. Most space is allotted to the
1st and 2nd Battalions, nearly half the book. The regiment was awarded 74
Battle Honours, the fourth highest number awarded to a regiment, and four
VCs two of which were to officers serving with other units. It is strange
that one of the two who won the award while serving in one of the
battalions, L/cpl W.Sayer of the 8th Battalion, doesn’t rate a mention
in the book. Personnel losses amounted to 8,000. There is a very good
photo of the 1st Battalion on parade on mobilization, some 1,000 officers
and men; next to it is a photo of the same battalion parading on 9th
November 1914 at the end of First Ypres - two officers and about forty
men.
Battalions of the regiment served in all theatres of war: Western Front,
Italy, Gallipoli, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine and India.
Macedonia is also included on the war memorial thus acknowledging 95th and
96th Labour Companies which had started out life as the 14th Queen’s.
The narrative describing the actions of the battalions gives names of
officers present for duty at various times, reports casualties and names
individuals in action; but there is no roll of honour nor lists of honours
and awards. There is a good index
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6724.
308 pages. Price £22 |
Record
of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in the Great War 1914 - 1918. by
Rev. Harold Gibb.
On the declaration of war the 4th Dragoon Guards were at
Tidworth, part of 2nd Cavalry Brigade under command of Brig Gen H. de B.
de Lisle. The regiment crossed to France on 15th August and a week later,
the day before Mons, made the first contact with the enemy, a cavalry
patrol. Corporal Thomas of ‘C’ Squadron fired the first shot by the
BEF and Capt Hornby led the first charge, scattering the Germans, sabring
several and taking others prisoner. The regiment remained on the Western
Front throughout the war. Thiis volume gives a concise account of the
regiment’s experiences without much of the personal reminiscence. There
is a useful appendix which gives the service details of every officer with
any awards and noting casualties, and another contains the Roll of Honour
in which the names are listed alphabetically regardless of rank, and on a
year by year basis; the total amounted to 16 officers and 175 other ranks.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6316.
75 pages. Price £12.95 |
The
Scots Guards in the Great War 1914 - 1918. by F. Loraine Petre, Wilfrid
Ewart and Major-General Sir Cecil Lowther.
In 1914 the Scots Guards (Third Regiment of Foot Guards)
consisted of two battalions, both in England and two week after the
outbreak of war the 3rd(Reserve) Battalion was formed; this battalion did
not go abroad but during the course of the war it provided drafts of
11,201 all ranks for the 1st and 2nd Battalions. The 1st Battalion went to
France with the 1st (Gds) Brigade, 1st Division on 14 August and served on
the Western Front throughout the war; the 2nd Battalion joined the 20th
Brigade of the 7th Division when it formed in September 1914, and landed
in Belgium on 7 October 1914 and also served on the Western front for the
whole of the war. Losses numbered 111 Officers and 2730 Other Ranks; 30
battle honours and 5 VCs were awarded. In August 1915 the Guards Division
was formed in France and both battalions were transferred to it, the 1st
to the 2nd Guards Brigade, the 2nd to 3rd Guards Brigade. The Regiment was
somewhat unfortunate in its historians, the first - William Ewart - was
accidentally killed in Mexico on New Year’s Eve 1922/23 after writing up
the first two months of the war only, his successor - L.F.Petrie died in
May 1925 after getting most of the war diaries put together, and finally
ithe history was finished by C.F Lowther who had commanded the 1st Bn at
the beginning of the war and then the 1st (Gds) Bde.
This book is set out in chronological order, and though the battalions
were not in the same division during the first twelve months of the war
their actions are not recorded under separate headings. Thus both
battalions were in action during First Ypres and they both appear in the
chapter covering that battle. Apart from war diaries, there are extracts
from letters and other contributions from those who were there making up
the narrative and the result is a plain, straightforward account. From
time to time the list of officers present in both battalions is given as
are the names of those who became casualties during any specific action.
There is, however, no Roll of Honour nor List of Honours and Awards, just
summaries of casualties and honours and awards in a final chapter; VCs are
named other awards are summarised, thus :”DSO - Twenty-two officers
while serving with the Regiment, four officers whilst attached to other
units.”
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7472.
349 pages. Price £22 |
The
Pals at Suvla Bay, being the Record of "D" Company of the 7th
Royal Dublin Fusiliers. by Henry Hanna, K.C.
This is an unusual book in that it is the record of a
company, a company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers(RDF) - ‘D’
Company - at Gallipoli. The battalion was raised in August 1914 and
allocated to 30th Brigade, 10th Irish Division. At the request of a Mr
Browning, President of the Irish Rugby Football Union, the CO of the new
battalion agreed to keep open a special company, ‘D’ Company as it was
subsequently known, for “Pals” from the Irish Rugby Union volunteers.
It was a remarkable mix of volunteers - barristers, doctors, solicitors,
stockbrokers, bankers, civil servants and the like, nearly all well known
in Dublin’s public and social life. Training in Ireland went on until,
on the last day of April 1915, 7th RDF sailed for Holyhead and from there
travelled to Basingstoke, the concentration area of the 10th Division. The
final period training at divisional level lasted to the end of June and a
week later they were off to the Dardanelles.
They landed at Suvla Bay on the morning of 7th August and there follows a
comprehensive account of the fighting over the next few weeks, especially
as it affected “D” Company. The first major battle was the attack on
Chocolate Hill and then there was protracted fighting on Kizlar Dagh
Ridge. Much of the description of the action is taken from letters and
from personal memories of those who were there. The story ends soon after
midnight 29th/30th September 1915 when the battalion was taken off the
peninsula and brought to Lemnos. There is a final chapter on the work of
the chaplains with the wounded.
In an appendix there is a list of men of the battalion mentioned in
despatches and the complete roll of the company showing five officers and
281 men and a further 23 transferred to “B” Company
for the machine gun section. There is also a list of the 79 NCOs and men
who survived to leave Suvla on 29th September. Finally there is a
remarkable photographic section at the end depicting some 250 officers and
men with brief biographical details and similar details for another 58 for
whom there are no photos. This is certainly a very rare book.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6322.
244 pages. Price £24 |
War
Diary of the 1st Life Guards. First Year 1914 - 1915.
On mobilization the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment
was formed with one squadron from each of 1st and 2nd Life Guards and
Royal Horse Guards. They joined the 4th Cavalry Brigade in The Cavalry
Division and landed in France on 16 August 1914. This account begins with
extracts from the private diary of Lt Col E.B.Cook, CO of the regiment
which begins on 14th August wqhen the regiment was put under orders for
foreign service. This takes the story up to 22 Oct 1914 when Cook was
wounded by a shell and was sent back to England. At this point the story
is taken up with extracts from the private diary of Surgeon-major Cowie,
1st LG, which continue to 11 November 1914 when the regiment was broken up
with the squadrons returning to their parent regiments in the 7th Cavalry
Brigade (1st and 2nd LG) and 8th Cavalry Brigade (RHG).
The 1st Life Guards, less one squadron, joined the newly formed 7th
Cavalry Brigade in the UK on 1 Sep 1914; this brigade was part of the 3rd
Cavalry Division then also being formed. They landed at Zeebrugge on 7
October 1914 and it is on the following day, 8th October the Regiment’s
War Diary begins. It goes on to 31 July 1915 and it makes a most
interesting document, thanks to the officer who kept it, Capt the Hon
E.H.Wyndham. Entries include all operation orders received from brigade,
orders from other higher authorities, reports from squadrons in addition
to the daily record of the regiment’s activities. Casualties are named,
officer arrivals and departures are noted. There are nominal rolls, rolls
of honour which include details of PW and their place of internment, and
lists of honours and awards.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6729.
80 pages. Price £9.50 |
History
of the 6th Cavalry Brigade 1914 - 1919. by Lt J B Bickersteth (1920)
The 6th Cavalry Brigade (6 Cav Bde) began to form in
England on 19 September 1914, part of the new 3rd Cavalry Division. The
first two regiments to join were the 1st R Dragoons (1D) and 10th R
Hussars (10H), both from S Africa where they were stationed when war broke
out, and they constituted the brigade when it embarked for France during
the first week in October 1914. The following month they were joined by
3rd Dragoon Guards (3DG) and ten days later by the North Somerset Yeomanry
(N Som Yeo). After about a week 10H were transferred to 8th Cavalry
Brigade in the same division, and from then for over three years 3DG, 1D
and N Som Yeo constituted 6 Cav Bde. In March 1918, shortly before the
German offensive N Som Yeo were withdrawn and converted to a MG role; they
were replaced by 10H.
The brigade saw a great deal of fighting both mounted and dismounted -
First and Second Ypres, Loos, Arras, Epehy, the March offensive in which
heavy casualties resulted in the N Som Yeo being returned to the brigade,
back in the mounted role, as reinforcements. The regiment was broken up
and personnel distributed among the other regiments in the brigade which
took part in the the advance to victory, the Hindenburg Line fighting and
the final advance. In his introduction the author states that the book is
a simple, unvarnished narrative of the chief events in the history of the
brigade, a record that does not include personal anecdotes such as may be
seen in regimental histories. Although there is no Roll of Honour nor list
of awards, the narrative has plenty of references to casualties (officers
named), postings in and out, apointments to the staff and changes in
command but no mention of awards or decorations other than the one VC, a
posthumous award to 2Lt J.S Dunville,1D, for which the citation is given
in full. The five photos are portraits of the five brigade commanders; the
maps are very clear and informative.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6921.
124 pages. Price £16.50 |
History
of the Baloch Regiment 1820 - 1939. by Maj Gen Rafiuddin Ahmed
(1998)
The spelling ‘Baloch’ in the title is the first time I
have come across it, the usual spelling, in use since the beginning of the
last century, is ‘Baluch’ (‘ch’ is soft, as in church). The 1st
Battalion is descended from the 2nd Marine Battalion of the 12th Bombay
Native Infantry Regiment, raised in 1820. Four more battalions were formed
over the next forty years, three of them designated ‘Belooch’
battalions but by 1901 all had become Baluch regiments of the Bombay
Native Infantry, numbered 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th and 30th. In his reforms
of 1903 Kitchener removed all references to former presidential
affiliations (Bengal, Madras and Bombay) and renumbered all regiments in
one sequence; the Bombay regiments’ numbers all had ‘100’ added to
their designations, thus the Baluch regiments became 124th, 126th etc. It
should be said that the Bombay regiments were hardly touched by the Mutiny
of 1857, only two out of more than thirty regiments mutinied (neither of
them Baluch).
All five regiments were on active service during the Great War - on the
Western Front, in Egypt, Palestine , Mesopotamia and Persia. The 129th was
the only one to go to France with the Indian Corps where one of its
soldiers, Khudadad Khan, had the distinction of being the first Indian
soldier to be awarded the VC, in October 1914. This history traces the
history of the regiment and its battalions across two hundred years, its
battles and campaigns. The author was commissioned into the regiment in
1958, more than ten years after the foundation of Pakistan to which the
regiment now belongs; he retired in 1992.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5481.
269 pages. Price £12.95 |
A
History of the Black Watch in the Great War 1914 - 1918. edited by
Maj Gen A G Wauchope (1925)
The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 42nd/73rd Foot,
entered the Great War with two Regular, one Special Reserve (the 3rd) and
four Territorial Force battalions (4th to 7th); by the end of the war the
total had grown to twenty-two battalions (Becke), twenty-five according to
the History’s Foreword. Thirty thousand served in the Regiment in
France, Belgium Salonika, Palestine and Mesopotamia and of these 8,390
died. The Regiment was awarded 69 Battle Honours, three VCs were won and a
fourth was awarded to a BW officer in 1917 while he was commanding 1st
Lincolns. This three-volume history is outstanding - Vol 1 deals with the
Regular and the Special Reserve battalions, Vol 2 the TF battalions and
Vol 3 the New Army (Service or Kitchener) battalions. Common to all three
volumes are the Preface, Foreword (by the Colonel of the Regiment) and the
page listing the Regiment’s Battle Honours.
In each volume the battalions are treated separately and for all the front
line battalions, following the narrative describing their war service
there are the same six appendices: Record of Officers’ Service, Summary
of Casualties, Officer casualty list, Other Rank casualty list, Honours
and Awards and finally the list of Actions and Operations. In Volume 1
there is a seventh appendix to the 1st and 2nd Battalion narratives - a
list of Other Ranks of each battalion who were commissioned during the
war. In the case of the TF the second and third line battalions, which did
not leave the UK, all are dealt with together. There is a bonus in Volume
2; at the end there is a section on the Royal Highlanders of Canada
represented by the 13th, 42nd and 73rd Canadian Infantry Battalions,
giving a brief account of their actions with appendices showing for each
battalion a summary of killed, list of Honours and Awards and list of
Actions and Operations. I believe this has got all you can hope for in a
regimental history.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7471.
1116 pages over three volumes. Price £55 |
History
of the Dorsetshire Regiment 1914 - 1919. by Various (1933)
This history published in three parts, one each for the
Regular, Territorial and Service battalions (those raised during the war).
This reprint covers the Regular and TF battalions, each with their own
index; And deals with the Service battalions and includes the Roll of
Honour and the list of Honours and Awards for all battalions. It also has
a separate index. There are numerous sketch maps in the text but no
illustrations. Battalions served on the Western Front, at Gallipoli, in
Mesopotamia, Egypt and Palestine. By the end of the war the regiment had
lost 4060 dead, collected 57 Battle Honours but was the only British
infantry regiment not to get a VC.
In August 1914 the 1st Battalion was in Belfast, in 15th Brigade, 5th
Division; it arrived in France on 16th August 1914 and fought on the
Western Front throughout the war. Its worst experience was at Hill 60 at
the beginning of May during Second Ypres. The Germans launched a gas
attack which resulted in just under 500 casualties. At the end of 1915 the
battalion was transferred to the 32nd Division with which it remained for
the rest of the war. The 2nd Battalion was in India (Poona) when war broke
out, part of the 16th (Poona) Brigade, 6th Indian Division. It took part
in the Mesopotamian campaign, was besieged in Kut and captured when
General Townshend surrendered in April 1916. Reconstituted in July 1916 it
became Corps Troops in the Tigris Corps and in January 1917 it was
allocated to 9th (Sirhind) Brigade, 3rd Indian Division with which it went
to Egypt in April 1918 and from there to Palestine where it was when the
war ended.
Unlike most infantry regiments which had at least two, the Dorsets had
only one Territorial battalion - the 4th; subsequently a reserve and
second reserve battalion were formed and the three battalions were
designated 1/4th, 2/4th and 3/4th. The latter did not go overseas, the
other two went to India in 1914. In February 1916 the 1/4th went to
Mesopotamia with 42nd Indian Brigade and fought through that campaign. The
2/4th went to Egypt in August 1917 and fought in Palestine in the 75th
Division; it was disbanded in August 1918.
Two Service (Kitchener) battalions were raised, 5th and 6th. The 5th began
life as Army Troops and then joined the 11th Division with which it was at
Gallipoli (August-December 1915) and from July 1916 on the Western Front.
The 6th Battalion arrived in France with 50th Brigade, 17th Division, in
July 1915 and stayed with it in France and Flanders for the rest of the
war. Apart from these battalions there are shorter accounts on the other,
Home Service, battalions - 3rd (Special Reserve),7th, 8th and 1st Garrison
Battalions and on a Dorset company in North Russia.
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History
of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, 1st and 2nd Battalions 1881 -
1923. by Brig Gen C D Bruce 1927.
In 1881 the 33rd (Duke of Wellington’s) and the 76th
Regiments of Foot were linked to form the 1st and 2nd Battalions The Duke
of Wellington’s Regiment, the only British regiment to be named after a
commoner. It is a Yorkshire regiment and had its Depot in Halifax. The
first two chapters in the book provide an historical outline of the
raising of the 1st Battalion in 1702 and take its story through to 1923.
When the Great War war broke out the battalion was in India (where it had
arrived in 1905) in Lahore and it was one of eight regular battalions to
remain in India throughout the war. The 2nd Battalion was raised as 76th
Foot in 1787 (two other regiments with that number had previously been
raised and disbanded) and the next two chapters give an historical outline
of the early years of the battalion taking it up to the outbreak of the
Great War when the battalion was stationed in Dublin, part of 13th
Brigade, 5th Division. Apart from the last chapter on the Memorial Chapel
and a couple of appendixes, the rest of this history recounts story of the
2nd Battalion on the Western Front, mainly by use of quotations from
eyewitness accounts, letters, diaries and official documents supported by
good maps.
The battalion arrived in France on 16th August 1914 and within a short
time it was in action at Mons (360 casualties), Le Cateau and the Retreat
from Mons, then the Marne, the Aisne and so to Ypres. Here, on 11th
November 1914 the Germans launched their final, desparate attack to break
through to Ypres and in the fighting 2nd DW virtually eliminated the
Fusilier battalion of the 2nd (Prussian) Guard Grenadier Regiment (4th
Guard Brigade); that regiment’s history put the Fusilier casualties at
15 officers and 500 men while 2nd DW themselves lost 400 officers and men.
Again, at Hill 60 on 18th April 1915, in a successful assault on the high
ground the battalion suffered 421 casualties, 15 of them officers. On 5th
May the Germans attacked using poisonous gas (chlorine) and recaptured the
lost ground, inflicting a further 350 casualties, catastrophic losses in
just two, separate days fighting. In January 1916 the battalion was
transferred to the 4th Division in which it served for the rest of the
war. A good feature of this history is the recording by name of officers
joining the battalion or leaving or becoming casualties, and the arrival
of drafts with strengths. By the end of August 1915 the battalion had
received drafts totalling 2,265 other ranks.
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History
of the King's German Legion. by Maj N Ludlow Beamish (1832 - 37)
One of the most unusual, as well as the most heroic and
distinguished Allied units in the Napoleonic Wars was the King’s German
Legion (KGL). Originally composed of German volunteers from King George
III’s Hanovarian domain, and founded out of Royal outrage at France’s
occupation of Hanover in 1803, the KGL, according to David Chandler, doyen
of Napoleonic military historians ‘ was without a doubt amongst the very
best troops commanded by Wellington in the Peninsula and at Waterloo’.
The KGL was a mini-army in its own right, comprising infantry, cavalry and
artillery. This classic two-volume history of the Legion by N. Ludlow is
one of the best accounts of the Napoleonic Wars, praised by the great
historian Sir Charles Oman as ‘ a valuable and conscientious history’.
and largely composed of eye-witness accounts by serving soldiers.
Volume 1 begins with the bungled loss of Hanover and the raising of the
KGL, and its first foreign expedition - to denmark. under Lord Rosslyn.
The KGL was next deployed in the Mediterranean theatre, and had its first
taste of Spain under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley (Wellington)
where the german hussars covered the disastrous retreat to Corunna. The
Legion returned to Portugal and Spain with Wellington and lost heavily at
the Battle of Talavera. Other KGL units took part in Sir Eyre Coote’s
expedition to Flushing and Walcheren. In the Peninsula War, the Legion
fought under General Craufurd, helping to defeat the French at Busaco and
befoire the lines of Torres Vedras, and later participating in
Wellington’s vistory over Marshal Massena at Fuentes d’Onoro. The
voilume ends with Soult’s defeat at Albuera and the siege of Badajoz.
Volume 2 opens with the sieges of Badajoz and Cieudad Roderigo and the
great battle of Salamanca which broke the back of the French in Spain. As
Wellington rolled the enemy up to the Pyrenees, the KGL wewre also present
at the battle of Vittoria. Meanwhile the KGL were also operating against
Marshal Davout in the noirth of their native Germany. The Allied pressure
caused Napoelon to abdicate and retire to Elba in 1814. The book’s final
chapter deals with the Waterloo campaign in which the KGL played a heroic
part in holding the strategically vital La Haye Sainte Farm in front of
the British line, against fuious French assaults.
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History
of the King's German Legion. by Maj N Ludlow Beamish (1832 -37)
One of the most unusual, as well as the most heroic and
distinguished Allied units in the Napoleonic Wars was the King’s German
Legion (KGL). Originally composed of German volunteers from King George
III’s Hanovarian domain, and founded out of Royal outrage at France’s
occupation of Hanover in 1803, the KGL, according to David Chandler, doyen
of Napoleonic military historians ‘ was without a doubt amongst the very
best troops commanded by Wellington in the Peninsula and at Waterloo’.
The KGL was a mini-army in its own right, comprising infantry, cavalry and
artillery. This classic two-volume history of the Legion by N. Ludlow is
one of the best accounts of the Napoleonic Wars, praised by the great
historian Sir Charles Oman as ‘ a valuable and conscientious history’.
and largely composed of eye-witness accounts by serving soldiers.
Volume 1 begins with the bungled loss of Hanover and the raising of the
KGL, and its first foreign expedition - to denmark. under Lord Rosslyn.
The KGL was next deployed in the Mediterranean theatre, and had its first
taste of Spain under Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley (Wellington)
where the german hussars covered the disastrous retreat to Corunna. The
Legion returned to Portugal and Spain with Wellington and lost heavily at
the Battle of Talavera. Other KGL units took part in Sir Eyre Coote’s
expedition to Flushing and Walcheren. In the Peninsula War, the Legion
fought under General Craufurd, helping to defeat the French at Busaco and
befoire the lines of Torres Vedras, and later participating in
Wellington’s vistory over Marshal Massena at Fuentes d’Onoro. The
voilume ends with Soult’s defeat at Albuera and the siege of Badajoz.
Volume 2 opens with the sieges of Badajoz and Cieudad Roderigo and the
great battle of Salamanca which broke the back of the French in Spain. As
Wellington rolled the enemy up to the Pyrenees, the KGL wewre also present
at the battle of Vittoria. Meanwhile the KGL were also operating against
Marshal Davout in the noirth of their native Germany. The Allied pressure
caused Napoelon to abdicate and retire to Elba in 1814. The book’s final
chapter deals with the Waterloo campaign in which the KGL played a heroic
part in holding the strategically vital La Haye Sainte Farm in front of
the British line, against fuious French assaults.
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Serial number NMP3035.
1058 pages over two volumes. Price £135 |
The
History of the Royal Artillery (Crimean Period). by Col J R Jocelyn
(1911)
From the doomed attempt to seize the Russian guns by the
Light Brigade at Balaclava, to the Siege of Sebastopol itself, artillery
played a major part in the Crimean War. This official history of the Royal
Artillery Regiment in the conflict is therefore indispensible to a full
picture of the war. Colonel Jocelyn’s detailed account of operations
opens with a description of the Regiment’s organisation on the eve of
the war, and discusses the changes brought about by the experience. Part
II of the book deals with the military operations themseves, opening with
the Battle of the Alma, the start of the protracted Siege of Sebastopol,
the chaotic Battle of Balaclava and the bloody Battle of Inkerman.
Although an official history, the author is unsparing in his criticism of
errors when they occur. Each section of the book is accompanied by
appendixes listing the forces, guns and officers present at each
encounter. In addition there are 71 tables, 41 engravings, and ten maps.
“...Essential reading for a general view of the war as well as the
details of the key part played by the artillery” Major Colin Robins
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The
History of the Lincolnshire Regiment 1914 - 1918. by Maj Gen C R
Simpson (1931)
When war broke out in August 1914 the Lincolnshire
Regiment consisted of two Regular, one Special Reserve and two Territorial
battalions; during the course of the war a further 14 battalions were
raised including a Labour Battalion (12th). Ten went on active service,
all on the Western Front, one of them (6th) was also at Gallipoli. This
volume gives an account of the doings of those ten battalions, concluding
with the Roll of Honour of the officers, arranged in alphabetical order
but without identifying battalion, and then the WOs, NCOs and Men, listed
in alphabetical order but by battalions. A third appendix contains the
list of Honours and Awards, also listed alphabetically but without dates
or reference to battalion. This section of the book takes up 106 pages.
There is a very short index which does at least feature each battalion,
making up for the lack of such references in the contents, so you can find
the battalion you are looking for. The total dead amounted to 8,800; three
VCs were won and 58 Battle Honours awarded.
This history has been compiled, principally, from War Diaries of
battalions in the field, supplemented by the notes of officers who read
the original draft, as well as by reference to despatches and to official
and other records. The contents are arranged in chronological order in a
series of nine parts, each covering a specific period in the war and
describing the actions of the various battalions engaged. It reads easily,
and when describing battles or engagements it mentions personalities and
gives casualty figures incurred. Books like this are published primarily
for those who served in the regiment, and so there should be plenty of
names which not only served at the time to keep the memory fresh but also
provide a bonus for those engaged in historical or genealogical research
research.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7428. 511
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History
of the London Rifle Brigade 1859 - 1919. by Various contributors
(1921)
The London Rifle Brigade (LRB) began life in 1859 as a
Volunteer Rifle Corps with the title London Rifle Volunteer Brigade and
the motto “Primus in Urbe.” It was a sore point that when the London
Regiment was formed in 1908 as part of the new Territorial Force, the four
Royal Fusilier Volunteer battalions (also London battalions) were given
precedence relegating the LRB to fifth place, despite its motto; it became
the 5th (City of London) Bn The London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade).
The first 60 or so pages deal with the pre-war history; they sent five
officers and 145 NCOs and men to S Africa and the names are given in an
appendix. The rest of book is devoted to the Great War in which three
battalions served, the 1st and 2nd Battalions on the Western Front, the
3rd was a training battalion. Each battalion is covered separately
concluding, in the case of the active service battalions, with a detailed
itinerary.
On the outbreak of war the LRB was in the 2nd Brigade of the 1st London
Division, which was effectively broken up in the early months to provide
replacements for regular battalions coming home from abroad and
reinforcements for the BEF. In September 1914 a second line battalion was
formed and in November a third line giving 1/5th, 2/5th and 3/5th
Battalions of the LRB. The 1st Battalion was soon in France where it
arrived on 5 November 1914. During 1914/15 it was with 4th and 3rd
Divisions and at GHQ; in February 1916 the 1st London Division was
reformed in France and numbered 56th; the 1/5th LRB rejoined the division
in 169th Brigade where it remained for the rest of the war. In all it
suffered just under 4,200 casualties of whom 755 were dead. The 2nd
Battalion arrived in France in January 1917 as part of 174th Brigade, 58th
(2nd/1st London) Division. A year later, In the reorganisation of the BEF
in which divisions were reduced from twelve to nine battalions the 2/5th
LRB was broken up and the personnel distributed among other battalions.
This is a very good history with many informative appendices including
casualty lists by battalions, nominal roll of all officers who served
between 1859 and 1919 with service, and in a number of cases biographical
details (genealogists), honours and awards including mentions
(medallists). The divisional report on the attack on Gommecourt on 1st
July 1916, with casualty details is included as is the translation of the
War Diary of the 55th Reserve Infantry Regiment which opposed them.
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The
History of the Norfolk Regiment 4th August 1914 to 31st December
1918. by F Loraine Petre.
The Norfolk Regiment (9th Foot) entered the war with two
regular, one reserve and three TF battalions (one of the latter, the 6th,
was a cyclist battalion); by the end the number had grown to nineteen of
which eight went on active service whose losses in dead numbered
5,576. The total number of men raised during the war amounted to
32,375. Seventy battle honours and one VC were awarded, the VC going
to Lt Col Sherwood-Kelly while commanding 1st R Inniskilling
Fusiliers. The 1st Battalion (apart from a short spell in Italy with
the 5th Division), 7th, 8th, 9th served on the Western Front; the 2nd
fought in Mesopotamia only and was captured at Kut al Amara in April 1916;
the 4th and 5th were at Gallipoli, in Egypt and in Palestine while what
became of the 12th Battalion (converted Norfolk Yeomanry) went to
Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and finally France and Belgium for the last
few months of the war. In the introduction there is a most useful
table showing when and where the 1st, 7th, 8th and 9th Battalions were
located on a month by month basis. The accounts of the doings of
several battalions are based mainly on their War Diaries and those of the
brigade and division to which they belonged. To supplement these the
author has in some cases had personal reminiscences though not as many as
hoped. Each battalion is dealt with separately apart from the TF 4th
and 5th which are taken together while a variety of Appendices contain
information such as succession of colonels and COs with biographical
notes, roll of honour of officers, uniforms, arms and badges, Colours and
Battle Honours and other regimental and traditional items.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6907. 454
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A
History of the Northumberland Fusiliers 1674 - 1902. by H M Walker
(1919)
The Northumberland Fusiliers (the ‘Royal’ title was
conferred in 1935) was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army,
the 5th of Foot. I say ‘was’ because it no longer exists as such,
having become the 1st Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in
1968. But all this is well after the period covered in this book. The
regiment was raised in Holland in 1674 as an Irish regiment by Lord Clare
and in 1688 it officially became part of the British Army; in 1747 it was
numbered 5th Regiment of Foot. During the next 155 years it fought in more
than fifty campaigns and battles across the world - in N America, Canada,
S America, West Indies, the Peninsula, India (three VCs were won during
the Mutiny) and finally S Africa where this history ends. One of the
appendices contains extracts from the Army List between 1688 and 1900.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1989.
502 pages. Price £16.95 |
A
History of the Services of the 19th Regiment now Alexandra Princess of
Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment). by Major M L Ferrar (1911).
This regiment is more familiarly known as The Green
Howards, one of only four English and Welsh infantry regiments retaining
their old title, unaffected by the various amalgamations, re-amalgamations
and disbandments that have decimated the British Army since the end of
World War II. It got its name from the days when regiments were known by
the colonel’s name. In 1744 there were two Colonel Howard’s Regiments
on active service in the War of Austrian Succession one of which wore
green facings; to avoid confusion that regiment was referred to as
‘Green Howards.’ It came into existence on 19 November 1688, recruited
from volunteers from Somerset and Devon, the first regiment to be raised
in England after the landing of Prince William of Orange (soon to be
William III) two weeks earlier. In 1751 the regiments were numbered and it
became the 19th Regiment of Foot. The regiment fought in the American War
of Independence and in 1796 it sailed for India but was diverted to
Ceylon, where it was to spend the next twenty-four years, apart from a few
short tours to India. It was involved in the Kandian War and was one of
three British regiments to qualify for the Ceylon Medal. The regiment did
not come home till 1820 by which time it had suffered 1,498 deaths in
action and from disease. It fought in the Crimea where it won its first
two VCs, at Sebastopol. The regiment was back in India during the Mutiny
of 1857, and now as the 1st Battalion, it took part in the Hazara campaign
of 1868, the Sudan Expedition of 1885/6, and in the Boer War where it won
the regiment’s third VC. Its story ends with the battalion in Khartoum,
under orders for India where it would remain throughout the Great War.
The second battalion was formed in 1858 and the last three chapters cover
its history - Ireland, India, Burma, the Tirah. The account ends with the
battalion back in England after an overseas tour of nineteen years,
sixteen of them in India. An appendix lists the Regiment’s succession of
colonels and gives casualty details for the Crimea, Egypt and the Sudan,
the Tirah and S Africa. There is a good index. In this edition the colour
plates have been grouped together at the beginning of the book
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Paperback Book serial number NMP1451. 451
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The
History of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own), Formerly the
95th. by Sir William H Cope, Bart., Late Lieutenant (1877)
William Cope was comissioned into The Rifle Brigade in
1830 and retired in 1839.This really excellent volume covers the history
of The Rifle Brigade from formation to 1874 (1st Ashanti War).
Indispensable with a first rate index.
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The
History of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in the Second World
War. by Brig C N Barclay
The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (RNF) became
‘Royal’ in 1935 on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of George V. In
1937, in a reorganisation of the army the RNF was one of four regiments to
be converted to a Machine-gun regiment, the other three were the Cheshire,
Middlesex and Manchester Regiments. When war broke out the regiment
consisted of the two Regular battalions and eight Territorial Army
battalions in varying roles - the 4th to 9th and two tank battalions 43rd
and 49th Royal Tank Regiment) formed from the 6th Battalion; two more
battalions,10th and 70th, described as non-Field Force, were formed in
October 1939 and September 1940. In contrast, in the Great War there were
51 battalions. The Roll of Honour lists 895 dead (16,000 in WWI), two VCs
were awarded and 29 Battle Honours (5 and 67 in the previous war). Between
them the battalions served in France (1939/40), N Africa, Singapore,
Italy, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, NW Europe (1944/45), India and Greece.
Although officially a machine-gun regiment during the period 1937 to 1945,
some battalions of the RNF were given other roles, in some cases
permanently, in others temporarily, e.g., the 5th became a Search Light
regiment RA, the 8th Battalion a Reconnaissance battalion. All these
changes are made clear as the narrative proceeds.
Despite the title the book takes the history from the end of the Great War
and describes the period between wars. In general it is set out in
chronological order, although there is some departure from this in detail.
This is due partly to campaigns and other events overlapping, and partly
to the need to give some degree of continuity to the story of each
battalion. In addition to the list of the dead of WWII and a summary of
Honours and Awards in tabular form, there are also, in a separate
appendix, details of the 1st Battalion casualties in Korea (69 dead, 319
wounded, missing and PoW), and the list of awards. Another appendix gives
the names of all battalion commanding officers throughout the war. This is
a very business like, well written and well laid out history, easy to
follow.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7419.
322
pages. Price £22 |
History
of the Royal Irish Rifles. by Lieut Col George Brenton Laurie
(1914)
n 1881 the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot was
linked to the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot thus forming the
1st and 2nd Battalions of a new regiment - the Royal Irish Rifles. In 1921
the designation was changed to the Royal Ulster Rifles. This regimental
history extends over a period of 120 years, beginning with the raising of
the 83rd and 86th in 1793 and ending in 1912. The author has done a
thorough job with this book, so I was more than a bit surprised to read in
the Foreword by the Colonel of the Regiment (in his 98th year) his
reference to “this little book that I have before me.....” when you
could do with a porter to carry it for you. This is a goldmine for the
genealogist or medallist, for not only does the detail of the text abound
with the names of personnel but also there is the complete list of
officers who served in the 83rd, 86th and, after 1881, the Royal Irish
Rifles. The information against each name gives date of commission or date
of transferring from another regiment, dates of subsequent promotions and
the date he left the regiment and the reason, such as retired, resigned,
half pay, died, transferred to Indian Army or to another regiment etc.
Another list gives the names of other ranks awarded the DCM showing
campaign and reason for the award, and yet another names the officers who
received the Military General Service Medal for service in the Peninsular
War and which clasps were awarded. Another appendix lists the succession
of Colonels (83rd, 86th and Royal Irish Rifles) with details of their
military careers.
This is a very good history which begins with the raising of the regiments
and continues with each chapter devoted to one or the other regiments for
a specific period. Thus, for example, Chapter III is headed
‘Eighty-sixth Regiment (1793-1799)’ and Chapter VIII ‘Eighty-third
Regiment (1805-1817).’ Most of the 83rd’s Battle Honours were won in
the Peninsular War where it took part in the campaign from 1809 to 1814,
both regiments were in India during the same period, 1842-1859. The
narrative not only describes in great detail the actions, battles and
skirmishes with casualties but also all other events in the life of the
regiments:- moves, rations, clothing, equipment, strength returns,
correspondence and so on. The maps are very good and finally, there is a
chapter on dress, the Colours and medals. It is the story of a regiment.
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The
History of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 -
1918. Maj W De B Wood (1925)
On 1st July 1881, the 53rd Shropshire Regt and the 85th
King’s Light Infantry amalgamated to become the 1st and 2nd Battalions
respectively of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI); the
Shropshire Militia became the 3rd Special Reserve (SR) Battalion. On the
outbreak of war in 1914 the regiment consisted of four battalions: the 1st
(Ireland), 2nd (India), the 3rd and the 4th (Territorial) were in
Shrewsbury. During the course of the war the establishment of the regiment
was raised to thirteen battalions, eight of them (1st, 2nd, 1/4th, 5th,
6th, 7th, 8th and 10th) went on active service, between them in France and
Flanders, Mesopotamia and Palestine while the remainder furnished drafts
and took part in home defence. Fifty-two battle honours and one VC were
awarded; 4,710 died. Covering eight battalions in one book does not allow
for much detail, in fact descriptions of actions and operations tend to be
summaries. However, there are plenty of names in the text, officers and
other ranks.
The contents are arranged in eleven chapters, one for each of the eight
front line battalions, each with a map covering its areas of operation;
one for the Depot; one for the reserve battalions and a final one
describing activities at home. Appendices provide the roll of honour of
officers, roll of honour of other ranks listed by battalion, British and
Foreign awards, mentions in despatches and mentions in the Press and
awards of brevet rank. Finally there is an index.
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The
History of the "Shiny Seventh". Compiled by C Digby
Planck
“Shiny Seventh” was the nickname of the 7th (City of
London) Battalion The London Regiment which, prior to the formation of the
Territorial Force in 1908, had been the 3rd City of London Rifle
Volunteers. This history tells the story from those early beginnings to
the end of WWII including the period between wars when, in 1936, the the
regiment’s role changed from infantry to searchlight and the title to
32nd (7th City of London) AA Battalion, RE.,TA. Most of the book, some 200
pages, is concerned with the Great War and the record of the two active
battalions, 1/7th and 2/7th. The 1/7th landed in France in March 1915 with
4th London Brigade, 2nd London Division (in May these became 140th
Brigade, 47th Division) and remained with it till January 1918. Its first
major action was at Festubert and subsequently it fought at Loos, Vimy,
High Wood (the divisional memorial stands today) Butte de Warlencourt ,
Messines and Cambrai. 2/7th was raised in September 1914 and landed in
France in January 1917 with 174th Brigade 58th Division fighting its first
major battle at Bullecourt in May and then took part in the Third Ypres
offensive. In January 1918, following the reorganisation of the BEF from
four to three battalion brigades the two battalions amalgamated becoming
7th London, in 174th Brigade 58th Division in which it served to the end
of the war. The narrative includes extracts from letters, diaries and
articles written by officers and men, casualty details are given as they
occur and gallantry awards and other incidents. One of the diaries quoted
from is that of K.O.Peppiatt whose signature used to appear on our
banknotes before WWII.
The inter-war years and WWII are only briefly covered and the Roll of
Honour for The Great War (none for WWII)has the one list, officers and men
of both battalions, in alphabetical order but without identifying the
battalion; Honours and Awards are shown under 1/7th and the combined 2/7th
and 7th. Other appendices give the succession of Honorary Colonels and
provide details of Regimental Colours and Battle Honours. There is plenty
of local interest which would certainly have jogged the memories of the
Old Comrades.
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The
Military General Service Roll 1793 - 1814. edited by ALT
Mullen
This medal, sanctioned in 1847 and issued in 1848, was
awarded for services during the Napoleonic Wars 1801-14.It had been
planned to award the medal for battles and campaigns as far back as 1793,
but such was the time lapse that very few claimants would have come
forward, and therefore the first clasp awarded was that for ‘Egypt’,
for the campaign of 1801.Some 25,000 medals were issued with an almost
infinite variety of the 29 clasps issued, the maximum on one medal being
fifteen.The great variety of clasps and regiments found on this medal make
it one of the most interesting of all campaign awards.The time lapse
between the actual battles and the issue of the medal meant that only a
small number of survivors from each regiment lived to receive the award.In
addition, there were survivors who did not know about or could not claim
the medal. Most of the clasps were awarded for service during the
Peninsular War of 1811-14, although six clasps were issued for the
Peninsula War of 1808-09.In addition, there were three clasps for services
in Canada, two for services in the West Indies, and one each for Egypt
(1801), Maida (Southern Italy 1806), and Java (1811).The obverse is the
usual Wyon head of Victoria, with the date ‘1848’ at the foot, whilst
the reverse depicts Victoria placing a laurel wreath on Wellington as he
kneels before her; there is also an inscription, and the British Lion is
represented.The clasps were struck in groups of three where applicable,
and then riveted together.The suspension is by a straight, swivelling
suspension.The naming is always in impressed Roman capitals.There are too
many rarities to detail both in terms of the clasps and the regiments, but
it should be borne in mind that only about 10% of those who fought in
these battles and campaigns lived to receive the medal, and that, when the
number that have been lost, destroyed or placed in museums is taken into
acount, this medal can be described as scarce and a considerable number of
issues as rare. The most up-to-date roll currently in print is the Mullen
roll
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The
History of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914 - 1919. by Everard
Wyrall (1928)
This is an impressive history by the most prolific author
of Great War divisional and regimental histories, a fine tribute to a
regiment that contributed 49 battalions to the nation’s war effort, 26
of them served overseas, including the 2nd Battalion which was in India in
August 1914 and remained there throughout the war. It is also a tribute to
the author who died in 1933, before he could finish the third volume; the
final few chapters were completed by Capt W. Synge of the 1st Battalion.
All 23 front line battalions served on the Western Front, one of them
(14th) in Salonika as well. The Roll of Honour lists 14,200 dead, six VCs
were won, one of them by an officer (Capt O.A.Reid) attached to another
regiment, and 58 Battle Honours were awarded. This work is set out in
chronological order, each volume dealing with a specific period and ending
with the Roll of Honour for that period and citations for any VC. Dates
are in the margin and so is the identification of the battalion involved
in the action being described. Volume 1 (xiv + 237pp with 10 photos and 8
maps) carries the story from mobilization to the end of 1915, by which
time fourteen battalions had joined the Old Contemptibles of the 1st
Battalion in the BEF, and one of these had gone on to Salonika. It has a
very useful appendix listing every battalion and where it served and when.
Volume 2 (vii + 250pp with 8 photos and 8 maps) takes the narrative
through 1916 to 30 June 1917 and the Arras offensive; the final volume
(vii + 370pp with two photos and 5 maps) completes the story beginning
with Third Ypres and ending with a very brief chapter on the 2nd Battalion
in India.
As it may be imagined, there is plenty of detail in a history so generous
with space as this, with its three volumes, and the narrative is supported
with clear maps.
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758
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The
History of the Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles. by
Various (1921)
This is a great history, one of the best of its kind. Just
look at the wealth of information contained in the appendices: the nominal
roll of all officers and other ranks who served 1914-1919, identifying
those who died (1,227); list of officers of 1/15th who embarked for France
in March 1915; casualty details in tabular form showing separately monthly
figures for the first line and second line battalions and those attached
to other units and distinguishing between killed in action, died of
wounds, missing presumed dead, died of illness and died as PoW; list of
decorations and awards; staff list showing all COs, adjutants and RSMs
from 1860 to 1920 ; list of those who served in the S African War; annual
strength states from 1860 to 1914 and even an appendix on the Regimental
Plate with photo and identification of the various trophies. This is the
heart of a regiment.
The narrative is as good and informative as the appendices and is arranged
in three parts, each by a different member of the Regiment. The first part
traces in considerable detail the pre-1914 history from the early days of
1859 to the eve of war by which time the title had become “the 15th
(County of London) Battalion the London Regiment. The second part is
concerned with the first line battalion, 1/15th, which landed in France on
17th March 1915 with the 4th London Brigade, 2nd London Division (in May
these became 140th Brigade 47th Division). It was at Festubert, in May,
that the battalion first became acquainted with the realities of war, even
though the men were employed throughout in holding the line. The story is
based not only on the War Diary but also on the Regimental Diary which
contained all the “personal gossip” in the unit as well as accounts of
tours in the line. The latter was discontinued early in 1918 but the CO
decided that to make up for this the War Diary should contain every item
of interest to the battalion, not just operational matters. The 2/15th was
formed in September 1914 and assigned to 179th Brigade 60th Division and
went to France in June 1916; the list of officers, WOs and CQMS’s
embarking is given. After four months in the line north of Arras the
division was shipped out to the Macedonian theatre, arriving at Salonika
in December 1916. Six months later the division moved again, this time to
Palestine to join Allenby’s EEF. After a year’s campaigning in
Palestine the battalion was one of seven taken from the division and sent
back to France where the situation was critical in the wake of the German
offensive.
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The
History of the Suffolk Regiment 1914 - 1927. by Lieut Col C C R
Murphy (1928)
On 1 January 1914, when this volume begins, the Suffolk
Regiment consisted of the 1st and 2nd Battalions, the 3rd (Special
Reserve) Battalion, and the 4th, 5th and 6th (Cyclist) Battalions of the
Territorial Force. After the outbreak of war sixteen more battalions were
raised and added, and in 1917 the Suffolk Yeomanry converted into the 15th
Battalion, making a grand total of twenty-three. Battalions of the
Regiment served in France and Flanders, Gallipoli, Macedonia, Egypt and
Palestine, and at home. This book tells their stories, based on war
diaries, private diaries, letters and interviews. In all 6,650 died, two
VCs were won and 73 Battle Honours awarded. The doings of the ten
battalions which proceeded overseas are all woven together into the
general story contained in these pages, those of the remaining thirteen
battalions form the subject matter of separate chapters. Given the scope
of this volume and space considerations there is no Roll of Honour and the
list of Honours and Awards is a very limited one showing only some of the
more important honours gained. Inevitably some battalions get fuller
treatment than others but, as Cyril Falls comments, the main events are
clearly described. More maps would have been welcome.
As has already been implied the narrative appears in chronological order
beginning in 1914 with the 1st Battalion moving from Egypt to Khartoum and
the 2nd Battalion in the Curragh with 14th Brigade, 5th Division, one of
the original BEF divisions. This battalion landed in France on 14th August
and was in action at Mons and Le Cateau where it suffered heavy casualties
amounting to 720 killed, wounded and missing with the CO among the dead.
There is a chapter devoted to this battle with a special introduction by
General Smith Dorrien commanding the British troops. The 1st Battalion
arrived home in October 1914 and was allotted to the newly formed regular
28th Division which landed in France in January 1915, nine months later it
left France for Macedonia where it stayed to the end of the war. As the
story unfolds so the various battalions on active service are brought into
the picture and the part they played in the battles is described. One
chapter is given to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion at home and
another to all the other battalions that did not go on active service.
There is a comprehensive, 26-page index.
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431
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The
History of the Old 2/4th (City of London) Battalion the London Regiment
Royal Fusiliers. by Anon (1919)
This second line TF battalion was formed in September 1914
on the departure of the first line battalion, 1/4th, for Malta. In the
last week of December 1914 the 2/4th battalion sailed for Malta where it
relieved 1/4th which went to France. The battalion served on Malta till
August 1915 when it moved to Alexandria, and shortly after (October 1915)
headed for Mudros and then Gallipoli where it arrived in October 1915. In
January 1916 it left Gallipoli and made its way to Rouen, via Alexandria,
and there, in June 1916, the battalion was disbanded. At this point the
third line battalion (3/4th), which had been raised in January 1915 and
was still in England, was re-designated 2/4th, under which title it went
to France in January 1917. In effect, then, the 2/4th lived on but to
emphasize the fact that this history is concerned only with the original
battalion the book title refers to the Old 2/4th.
This history is narrated in diary form with entries for nearly every day
from 23 September 1914 till disbandment at Rouen and every conceivable
event affecting the battalion is included - social and military. Thus:
‘September 14th 1915. The Regimental band played at the Greek Hospital
at 4 p.m.’
Casualties, arrivals, departures, ration scales, extracts from orders,
periods in the front line, contents of gift parcels, even observations of
bird life on Gallipoli - all feature. There is no Roll of Honour nor list
of Honours and Awards, all these are noted in the text and the last ninety
pages contain the service records of every officer and man of the
battalion where such information can be found, including details of any
wounds received. This is a boon to medallists and genealogists. For some
reason L/Cpl Stotter, wounded on Gallipoli, appears among the other ranks
as a Lieut in the records of service, obviously a slip-up. And the
unfortunate Pte Bonnett, wounded at the same time, does not feature in the
record of service pages, at least not under that name.
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History
of the Thirtieth Regiment, Now the First Battalion East Lancashire
Regiment 1689 - 1881. by Lieut Col Neil Bannatyne (1923)
An updated and expanded 1923 edition of a history of the
old Thirtieth Regiment, later the 1st East Lancashire Regiment, from its
formation in 1689 down to 1881, first published in 1887. The author draws
on newly-available material in the Public Record Office, the British
Museum and the Royal United Service Institution to compile this compelling
record of one of the British Armys oldest units. Raised in the year
after the Glorious Revolution which brought William III to the throne, the
30th first saw service in the wars with France that the King fought in
defence of his Duch homeland. It was disbanded, but then promptly raised
again as Marines to fight against France in the War of the Spanish
Succession, taking part in the successful capture and subsequent defence
of the Rock of Gibraltar. It continued to serve in Spain, helping to take
Barcelona and Alicante. The 30th helped defeat a French invasion fleet in
the Firth of Forth. It was disbanded a second time, but re-formed to meet
the Jacobite threat, defended Gibraltar again, and was present at Lord
Anson’s naval victory off Finisterre. Fighting as Marines, the 30th took
part in the expeditions against Rochefort, Cherbourg and St. Malo (twice).
In the American War of Independence it took part in the Battle of Eutaw
Springs and later helped to put down two risings of the black population
of Dominica.
In the French Revolutionary Wars, the 30th fought alongside the Navy in
the Mediterranean, helping defend Toulon against the young Napoleon
Bonaparte, occupying Messina and besieging and capturing Malta’s capital
Valetta before seeing action in Egypt.. Becoming two battalions, the
Regiment saw garrison duty in Ireland and service in the Easat Indies and
Macao before taking part in the Peninsula War. It was with Wellington in
the lines of Torres Vedras, which blocked the French attempt to drive the
Duke from Portugal, and took part in most of the major British victoriies
in the Peninsula, includfing Fuentes d’Onoro, Ciudad Roderigo, Badajoz
and Salamanca. After the Waterloo camapign , in which it fought at Quatre
Bras and Waterloo itself, the 30th was reduced to one battalion again and
saw service in the Mahratta war in India. It also took part in the Crimean
War at Inkerman and Sebastopol, and saw service in various parts of the
Empire until becoming the 1st East Lancashire Regiment. Ilustrated with
fifteen fine colour plates showing the evolution of the regiment’s
uniforms, and fifteen sketch maps of actions in which it fought., and
accompanied by a roll of its officers from 1689-1881 and an index.
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History
of the Welsh Guards. by C H Dudley Ward (1920)
The creation of a Welsh Regiment of Foot Guards was
authorised by Royal Warrant on 26th February 1915, though the order to
raise the regiment had been given by the King to Earl Kitchener, Secretary
of State for War, on 6th February. In the first instance officers and men
came from the other Guards regiments and from the recruits at Caterham.
The new regiment mounted guard at Buckingham Palace on St David’s Day,
three days after the publication of the Royal Warrant. All this is
described in the opening chapter which lists the first officers to join
and the regiments from which they transferred. On 17th August 1915 the 1st
Battalion sailed for France where it was allocated to 3rd Guards Brigade
in the newly formed Guards Division.
The author is one of the most prolific writers of Great War histories -
53rd, 56th and 74th Divisions as well as the monumental (nearly 950 pages)
history of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and with this history of the Welsh
Guards he has maintained his high standards. The story takes us through
all the battles in which the battalion fought, describing in detail many
individual actions, ending with its return to the UK from the Army of
Occupation in March 1919. Appendices provide the nominal roll of all WOs
NCOs and Men who served overseas with the 1st Battalion, indicating
casualties (over 800 dead) and awards and the records of service of
officers; examples of operation orders; a record of every move of the
battalion from arrival in France on 18 August 1915 to arrival in Cologne
on 20 December 1918; list of enemy divisions engaged; the story of the
regimental choir, a most important element of the regiment - in short,
this is an outstanding history.
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History
& Records of Queen Victoria's Rifles. compiled by Maj C A
Cuthbert Keeson VD (1923)
Unusually, this history of the QVRs (as they became
known), covers the period from the earliest days up to the Great War in an
appendix (185 pages) at the end of the book. According to tradition they
were the descendants of The Duke of Cumberland’s Corps of Sharpshooters
which was inaugurated in September 1803. In 1859 it became the 1st
Middlesex Rifle Volunteers and in 1892 and after a couple of mergers with
other Middlesex Rifle Corps it became in 1908, when the TF was created,
the 9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen
Victoria’s Rifles), allocated to the 3rd London Brigade, 1st London
Division. Shortly after the outbreak of war in August 1914 a second line
battalion was formed and in April 1915 a third line, thus we had 1/9th,
2/9th and 3/9th Battalions. The 1st London Division was broken up to
provide reinforcements for the BEF and on 5th November 1914 the 1/4th
landed at Havre and joined 13th Brigade, 5th Division. The battalion
fought with 5th Division throughout 1915, at Hill 60, Second Ypres and St
Julien. It was at Hill 60 that it gained the distinction of the first VC
awarded to a Territorial - 2Lt G.H Woolley. There is today a memorial to
the battalion on Hill 60. In Feb 1916 the 1st London Division was reformed
in France as the 56th Division and the QVRs rejoined it in 169th Brigade.
It fought with this division on the Somme, Arras, Third Ypres and Cambrai
till transferring to the 58th Division in February 1918 where it joined
with the 2/9th to become the 9th Battalion.
The 2/9th came to France with 58th Division in Feb 1917 and fought at
Bullecourt and Third Ypres before amalgamating with the 1/4th. The 9th
Battalion remained with 58th Division and took part in the 1918 battles
till the armistice. The 3/9th Battalion did not leave the UK but provided
drafts for the other two battalions.
This is a good history with plenty of detail and with many names, which is
a very good thing for such histories. It covers each battalion in turn -
1/9th, 2/9th, the amalgamated 9th and finally 3/9th. There is the Roll of
Honour and a list of Honours and Awards, including Mentions in Despatches
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Paperback Book serial number NMP5518. 670
pages. Price £28 |
Hodson
- Officers of the Bengal Army 1758 - 1834. by Major V C P Hodson
(1927)
This is a most important work of reference on Officers
of the Bengal Army who entered service between 1758 and 1834. Their
military careers are shown, where appropriate, through to the beginning of
the 20th Century, covering service in the Afghan Wars, the Sikh Wars and
the Indian Mutiny. This is a most wonderful source for collectors of
medals to the Indian Army.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP4038.
2593 pages over six volumes. Price £85 |
In
the Ranks of the C.I.V. : A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences
with the C.I.V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South
Africa. by E Childers
The book is subtitled “ A Narrative and Diary of
Personal Experiences with The C.I.V. Battery (Honourable Artillery
Company) in South Africa. What gives added interest to the book is the
identity of the author. Childers, who also wrote the classic pre-1914 spy
novel Riddle of the Sands, was a volunteer driver in the Boer War and in
the Great War served in the RNAS and the RAF, reaching the rank of Major
and winning the DSC. He was elected to Dail Eirann after the war, he
opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, supported De Valera and joined the
Republicans when they again took up arms. He was captured in Wicklow,
tried and found guilty of treason and executed on 24th November 1922.
The City Imperial Volunteers were formed at the end of 1899 and part of
that regiment was a battery of four Vickers Maxim guns, supplied by the
Honourable Artillery Company - the unit Childers came over from Ireland to
join. After a three week voyage they arrived in S Africa at the end of
February 1900 but it wasn’t until June that they eventually saw action,
at Lindley. Childers is a good writer and his description of life on
campaign is highly entertaining and informative.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP6266. 301
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The
India Corps in France. by Lt Col Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith
The Indian Corps, consisting of two infantry divisions (Meerut
and Lahore), arrived in France in September/October 1914. It was commanded
by Lieutenant-General Sir James Willcocks who was the most senior officer
n the BEF after Field Marshal Sir John French and General Sir Horace
Smith-Dorrien. The corps remained on the Western Front till the end of
1915, when it was transferred to the Middle East, a more suitable theatre
of war for Indian Army troops. This history was published at the request
and under the authority of the India Office, and apart from General
Willcocks’ own memoirs, With The Indians in France, it is the only
record of the corps. It is not altogether a happy tale, as the book makes
clear. While there was no questioning the bravery of the troops (five
Indian/Gurkha VCs) there were problems of climate, reinforcements, officer
casualties (the Indian battalion had only 13 British officers, who were
first priority targets for the Germans), not to mention mishandling and
lack of understanding on the part of the High Command. Total casualties
among Indian Army units amounted to 21,413 (each division had, initially,
three British battalions and divisional artillery was British). An unusual
and fascinating story and history.
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Paperback Book serial number NMP7698. 550
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The
Inniskilling Dragoons : The Records of an Old Heavy Cavalry
Regiment. by Major E S Jackson (1909)
The regiment was raised in 1689 by Sir Albert Conyngham
(Cunningham) after whom it was named; the men came mostly from County
Donegal. There is reference to an interesting note among King William
III’s State papers: ‘The Inniskilliners do not care for the English,
but they like the Scots, most of their parents being Scotch. It is well
therefore not to have too many English in their regiments.’ The
regiment’s first major action was the Battle of the Boyne (11 July
1690). Writing about it in his introduction the author says: “Of the
earliest years of the Regiment’s existence I have spoken as one walking
on thin ice; susceptibilities are on edge in Ireland when the Battle of
the Boyne is mentioned.........” That was written in 1909 and things
haven’t changed since. The regiment was in action during the War of The
Austrian Succession and was present at Dettingen and Fontenoy. It was
again on active service 1758-1763, this time in Germany in the Seven Years
War. At Waterloo the regiment was part of the Union Brigade (Royals, Scots
Greys and Inniskillings`) and took part in the celebrated charge in which
one officer and 85 other ranks were killed (and 164 horses) and six
officers and 101 other ranks wounded. It served in the Crimea where it
took part in another charge, that of Scarlett’s Heavy Brigade, also at
Balaklava - more successful but less publicised than that of the Light
Brigade. Surgeon James Mouat, attached to the Regiment, won the VC at
Balaklava but this does not get a mention in the book though it does say
he was awarded the Crimean medal.
The Crimea was followed by eight years in India enlivened by the antics of
the CO who quite clearly had a screw loose. He had one of his officers
courtmartialled and he himself was ordered to prosecute. He placed under
close arrest three witnesses for the defence and kept them there,
incommunicado, till the so-called trial ended. The whole affair is told in
detail and can only be described as mind-boggling. At the end of October
1899 the Regiment embarked for S Africa where it came under General
French’s command (the C in C of the BEF in 1914), taking part in yet
another charge - at Klipfontein. The Regiment served in S Africa
throughout the war, returning to the UK after the conclusion of peace
negotiations in 1902, and this is where this history ends Forty-one
officers and men were killed and forty-one died from other causes. Finally
there is an index.
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The
War in the Air : Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by
the Royal Air Force by H. A. Jones - Appendices
This volume of appendices is the seventh and last part of
the official history of the RAF in the Great War, and provides a wealth of
detail. Information found here includes correspondence (memoranda) between
British war leaders both military and political on a variety of subjects
such as bombing Germany; a separate Air Service; organization of the Air
Services; lists of squadrons of the RFC, RAF and Naval Air Squadrons which
served on the Western Front with dates, types of aircraft and roles; order
of battle and deployment of all RAF units on the Western Front on the day
of the Armistice, 11 November 1918. A Statistical Section provides
production figures, personnel and aircraft strengths, casualties, hostile
air raid statistics, details of Britain’s anti-aircraft Defences;
numbers, types and deployment of guns etc and much more. One interesting
statistic: the strength of the RFC on the outbreak of war in August 1914
was 2,073; in November 1918 at its end the figure was 291,175 (by then it
was the RAF)
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The
War in the Air : Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by
the Royal Air Force by H. A. Jones - Volume One
This official history of the part played in the Great War by the Royal
Air Force is based chiefly on the records of the Air Ministry, collected
and preserved by the historical section, supplemented by the contributions
of many military and naval officers and civilian experts, as well as
accounts of eyewitnesses. In all there are six volumes of text plus a
supporting volume of appendices, published between 1922 and 1937. The
author of this first volume, Sir Walter Raleigh, died after finishing it
and the task was taken over by H.A Jones who completed it.
Volume One describes the beginnings of the Air Force and the institution
of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). It covers the early months of the war (Mons
to Ypres 1914) and the activities of Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in
1914. It concludes with an account of the expansion of the RFC and RNAS
during the war - fighters, bombers and aircraft carriers among other
developments - and discusses the interplay between the two. The index to
this volume is incorporated in that of Volume 2.
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The
War in the Air : Being the Story of the part played in the Great War by
the Royal Air Force by H. A. Jones - Volume Two
Following the death of the author of Vol 1, Sir Walter
Raleigh, H.A Jones took over the task of completing the history - a
further five volumes of text plus one of appendices.
Volume Two tells the air story of the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, and of
the Western Front from the winter of 1914-15 to the end of the Battle of
the Somme in November 1916, and of the naval operations in Home Waters to
the end of 1916. It includes, also, the naval air operations from Dunkirk
in 1915 and 1916 and the bombing operations from Luxeuil in the latter
part of 1916. This volume incorporates the index of Volume 1 at the end of
the book.
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