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

Divisional Histories of the Great War 1914 - 1918

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(2003 reprint)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Royal Naval Division.  by Douglas Jerrold.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The 23rd London Regiment 1798 - 1919.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Acts of Gallantry.  by Lambton Young.  (1872)

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

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

Acts of Gallantry Volume 2.  by W H Fevyer. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Natal Medal Roll 1906. 

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

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

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African General Service Medals.  by R B Magor. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Battle Honours Awarded for the Great 
War.  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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The Border Regiment in the Great War. by Col H C Wylly

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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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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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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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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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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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Bygone Pilgrimage.  Amiens Before and During the War.  (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. Battlefields of the Marne 1914.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. Rheims and the Battles for its Possession. An Illustrated Guide to the Battlefields 1914 - 1918.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. Lille Before and During the War.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. Soisons Before and During the War.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. The Americans in the Great War Vol I.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. The Americans in the Great War Vol II.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. The Americans in the Great War Vol III.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. The Somme Volume I 1916 - 1917.  An Illustrated Guide to the Battlefields 1914 - 1918.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. The Somme Volume 2 1918.  An Illustrated Guide to the Battlefields 1914 - 1918.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. Verdun and the Battles for its Possession.  An Illustrated Guide to the Battlefields 1914 - 1918.  by Michelin (1919)

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Bygone Pilgrimage. Ypres and the Battles for Ypres.  by Michelin (1919)

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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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 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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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