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This is not a war record but a register of all Old Wycliffians from the time of the foundation of the college in 1882 to 1937. After an account of the collegeÕs fifty-five years of existence it lists all the old boys in alphabetical order with short biographical details, including where the pupil came from, the years at school and his House. Any wartime service is noted. There are various chapters concerning school matters - chronological list of masters, school constitution, a topographical index l... more information

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Someone once remarked that the ÔNZÕ in ANZAC is silent, and perhaps people associate ANZAC especially with Australia with its ANZAC Day parade and commemorative services. This book, part of the Official History of New ZealandÕs effort in the Great War, clearly shows the extent of New ZealandÕs part in that ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. The NZEF sailed from Wellington on 16th October 1914, in all 351 officers and 7410 other ranks making four infantry battalions, four mounted rifl... more information

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The Northumberland Fusiliers (the ÔRoyalÕ title was conferred in 1935) was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army, the 5th of Foot. I say ÔwasÕ 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 numbere... more information

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In September 1914 the 16th (Irish) Division was formed, comprised of 47th, 48th and 49th Brigades, and among the infantry battalions allocated to the 49th Brigade was the 7th R Inniskilling Fusiliers, formed on 2nd October 1914. In the initial stages recruiting was difficult but a gradual improvement received an almighty set-back when in June 1915 the battalion was required to send a draft of 300 to the 10th Irish Division then in England, getting ready to embark for Gallipoli. This nearly resulted in the... more information

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Published in 1788, this book is an anthropological study of the Irish as seen by the worthies of the time. It is, however, a careful study, and is of great value in showing how sophisticated the ÔnativesÕ were at the time. The book contains much detail on the costume and clothing of the Irish in history and in the late eighteenth century. It also holds a description of the armour and weapons of the Irish. The author was a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the original was published in Dub... more information

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The HAC, a Territorial regiment, was unique in that it was composed of both artillery and infantry, and it is also the oldest regiment in the British Army., LondonÕs ancient Artillery Company. In August 1914 it consisted of an infantry battalion and two field artillery batteries, ÒAÓ and ÒBÓ. On the outbreak of war, as with other TF units, they all formed second line units and eventually third line, though none of the latter went overseas. Because many members of the H... more information

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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 ... more information

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This is something of an historic document being the Army List issued just prior to Waterloo. First it lists all officers from Field Marshal (Duke of Wellington was appointed FM on 21 June 1813) down to Major, then a list of General and Field Officers having local rank, saying where they were serving in that rank. There follows the usual regimental lists with colonial regiments and the KingÕs German Legion. Royal Regiment of Artillery, Corps of Royal Engineers and Royal Marines come last. Officers re... more information

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Le Cateau, with Mons, was one of the two major engagements fought by the British Expeditionary Force in France in the opening weeks of the Great War. The battle, fought chiefly by the BEFÕs II Corps under the command of General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien on 26th August 1914, came about because of the confusion caused by the unexpected speed and weight of the German advance, which had routed General LanrezacÕs French Vth army. The BEF, endeavouring to cover for the French, found itself out oon... more information

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In 1877 the British Army was not engaged in any major campaigns, with only the Zulu Wars and the second Afghan War on the horizon. The Armt itself was in a state of change, with the Martini-Henry rifle replacing the Snider rilfed musket, and with the slow arrival of breech loading guns for artillery use.This official manual of the ammunition in service in December 1877 is one of a number to be reprinted by Naval and Military Press (others will include the ammunition maunual;s for 1915 and 1936, and en... more information

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Colonel John Ward , author of this account, commanded one of the heroic but doomed attempts by the British - and other western allies to aid the White forces and defeat the Reds - LeninÕs Bolsheviks, - in 1918-1919, during the Civil War that followed the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. Unpopular at home, where war weariness and left-wing sympathy for the revolution were strong, BritainÕs intervention in Russia was never going to be a walkover, and WardÕs account tells a tale, in the wo... more information

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The 53rd was a pre-war Territorial Force division which served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Palestine but never on the Western Front. The book opens with the detailed order of battle of the division as it was on the outbreak of war, a state of affairs that didnÕt last long; between November 1914 and February 1915 six battalions were posted independently to various formations in the BEF in Flanders. After being warned for India in November, an order which was quickly cancelled, the division was eventually... more information

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The 74th Division came into being in Egypt in March 1917, composed of three dismounted brigades of yeomanry (2nd, 3rd and 4th), which had fought at Gallipoli in that role, had returned to Egypt to form part of the Suez Canal Defence force and had been reorganized as infantry brigades numbered 229th, 230th and 231st. The GOC, Maj Gen E.S Girdwood, took as the divisional insignia a broken spur which, the author states, might have been a reflection of the bitterness he felt over the fate that condemned the fi... more information

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The last two volumes of this history cover the Great War, during which the original seven battalions (two Regular, one Special Reserve and four Territorial) expanded to forty of which twenty-two served overseas. Total casualties (dead) amounted to 9,800; 77 Battle Honours were awarded and eight VCs were won, one by an officer serving on the staff at the time (Lieut-Col Doughty-Wylie at Gallipoli). A further VC was awarded to the MO of the 1/6th Battalion in Palestine.Vol III is concerned only with the... more information

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This volume is concerned with operations on Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia, Palestine, Macedonia (Salonika) and Italy, although the author prefers THE WAR WITH TURKEY, THE WAR WITH BULGARIA and THE WAR WITH AUSTRIA as titles to the three parts into which the book is divided. The first part (Turkey) begins with a brief background on the Turkish army, its strength and dispositions and then, after an account of the landings on 25th April 1915, goes on to describe the regimentÕs part in the Gallipoli campa... more information

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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 DavidÕs Day, three days after the publication of the Royal Warrant. All this is described in the openi... more information

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This is the history of a pre-war TF division, the 1st London Division. It had the unhappy experience of being broken up right at the beginning of the war to provide reinforcements elsewhere. By the beginning of 1915 the division had ceased to exist, but in January 1916 it was reconstituted in France and numbered Ô56thÕ. Its first major engagement was the unsuccessful diversionary attack at Gommecourt on 1 July 1916 which resulted in 4,749 casualties. The division remained on the Somme till Oct... more information

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There are many books about Napoleon, and some of them attempt to analyse his particular brand of military genius. Almost all these books owe a tremendous debt to Colonel Count Yorck von Wartenburg. His book was published at the end of the nineteenth Century and is still as important today; indeed, Dr David Chandler acknowledges that he used the book as one of the primary works when researching his momentous history of Napoleon.After a brief look at NapoleonÕs youth and early career Wartenburg s... more information

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This document is an extremely rare intelligence product, and was issued in very small numbers at the end of the Second World War, just as Allied troops were penetrating into the heart of Germany. Its aim was to allow intelligence officers to ascertain what the Nazi Party offices, military installations, police stations and other places of interest were in every town in Germany.The document was the result of cooperation between the US War Department and the British Intelligence branches of the War Offi... more information

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This book is one of the best of all indian Cavalry histories,with a good readable narrative .Many individuals are mentioned in the text. The period covered is from 1858 through to the 1920s, the main events being the Mutiny, the Second Afghan War, the Campaign in the Tirah, and WWI (Western Front and Palestine). The operations to suppress the Mutiny in Central India, and to round up the last of its leaders, were conducted in part by a number of ad hoc units which sprang up almost spontaneously and under th... more information

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