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A full and comprehensive account of a classic punitive expedition to subdue and settle three tribes - the Abors, the Mishmis and the Miris - in and around Aborland on the frontiers of Assam and China in British-ruled India. The 1911 Abor Expedition under Major-General Hamilton Bower was carried out to punish the perpetrators of a massacre of a British colonial official, a doctor and their coolies in March that year. After some fighting and burning of villages, the murderers were caught, the tribal chief... more information

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Ruhleben was an Internment Camp in Germany for British internees, and the first part of this book contains letters from one of the prisoners (referred to as ÔRichard RoeÕ) to his mother. He was an Oxford undergraduate who was in Hamburg when war broke out, He was unable to get away before the shutters descended and was interned in Ruhleben. The second part is based on the Camp journal called "In Ruhleben CampÓ - a little periodical of 48 pages, illustrated by Stanley Grimm, an in... more information

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Mesopotamia - todayÕs Iraq - is aptly summed by by the author of this vivid memoir as Ôa land of sand, sun and sorrowÕ - a description that would doubtless be recognised by British servicemen serving there today. The author was an RFC officer whose secondment to the MIddle East in 1916, he admits, came as a ÔreliefÕ after Ôthe squalorÕ of the Somme. His account of his and his comradesÕ operations flying against Turkish and German aviators in Mespopot... more information

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Georg Bucher went right through the war with one break, due to a head wound, and this is his personal account, his record of those four grim years. He had five close friends of whom three were veterans like himself and one by one they died, the last, Riedel by name, crushed by a tank in one of the last battles of the war; of that band of brothers only Bucher lived to tell the tale. His story takes him to nearly every part of the Western Front - the Marne, Ypres, Notre Dame de Lorette, the Vosges, Verdun, t... more information

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The book is subtitled Ò 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 Trea... more information

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Aclaimed memoir of RNAS pilot: cross channel raids, BEF in France 1915 with No. 1 Wing, then Executive Officer of Dover Air Station and Killed flying in Februarty 1916.ÒA graphic picture of daily war life in the R.N.A.S.He has left a fine record, and the public, whojhave little conception of the work of the flying services, will realise in reading his letters a little of the dangers risked, and the character required, by those who wage war in the air.Ó - The TimesÒThe finest ... more information

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Definitive casualty roll of recipients of the medal arranged by clasp and by regiment. Seven clasps awarded: Defence of Chitral (1895), Relief of Chitral (1895), Punjab Frontier (1897-98), Malakand (1897), Samana (1897), Tirah (1897-98) and Waziristan (1901-02). Lists 2,400 officers and men; gallantry awards shown as well as nature of casualty; eg: `sword cut left hand'. Includes facsimiles of main despatches for each of the seven campaigns. A remarkable piece of research. SB 166pp. ... more information

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RAF personnel qualified for nine campaign clasps and this medal roll, transcribed from a card index formerly held at the Air Ministry, lists all recipients with clasp details and, where appropriate, squadron with which serving at the time. Entitlement to the later 1936-39 Medal is also noted. Analysis sheet lists squadrons present at each campaign, and gives totals of each clasp awarded. SB. vi + 73pp. ... more information

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The January and July issues of the Indian Army List contain not only the distribution of officers on the active list of the Army in India, including officers of British army regiments, battalions etc stationed in India, but are supplemented by the addition of Orders of Knighthood, Honours and Awards, including Foreign Orders, by the non-effective officer list and the War Services of officers of the Indian Army. Details of each officer include dates of birth (except for wartime commissioned officers), date ... more information

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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 unde... more information

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Colonel Lionel James (b 1871).English War Correspondent.Entering journalism, he became ReuterÕs correspondent in the Chitral Campaign 1894-95, and was ÔTimesÕ correspondent in South Africa 1899-1901. He acted in the same capacity in other campaigns and during the Great War served in France and Italy. He was highly critical of aspects of the campaign the chaotic transport forced to travel over appalling ground in un-mapped country, vulnerable to sharp-shooting tribesmen who were skilled ... more information

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Received knowledge has it that the Indian Mutiny was the result of the greased cartridge which appeared at the beginning of 1857, but in truth trouble was simmering among the Bengal Army native soldiers well before, and the cartridges were used as a catalyst. Conspirators spread the news that the new cartridge was smeared with the fat of a pig or a cow, the one hateful to the Mohammedans the other the sacred animal of the Hindus. In fact the cartridges had not even been issued to the men before the revolt,... more information

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The situation in Europe in 1914 was electric, and war was inevitable. In the UK the British Army went through its training in the safe knowledge that it had never suffered defeat in Europe. This manual contains all that was taught to infantrymen, section commanders and many junior officers before they were sent to France When it arrived in France the British Army was a well trained and quite well equipped force,capable with the support of its Allies of fighting the Germans to a standstill, which it di... more information

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An apparently obscure sidebar to the Great War that has suddenly acquired topical resonance is the struggle against the Turkish Ottoman forces in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Then, even more than today, control of the country depended on keeping the twin great rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates open. This book narrates the work undertaken by the officers and men of the Inland Water Transport (IWT) assigned to deliver supplies to the large British army in Mesopotamia by water. So successful were they that, by... more information

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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 IIIÕs State papers: ÔThe 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.Õ The regimentÕs first major action was the Battle of the Boyne (11 July 1690). Writing a... more information

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Various public schools, colleges, universities, and institutions hosted squadrons of cavalry and companies of infantry. They were to play a vital roll in the training and supply of the thousands of fresh officers required to meet the national emergency. Most progressed to the New Armies and Special Reserve of officers after receiving their commissions. This book lists over 13,000 men who passed through the Corps for officer training. A typical entry will give the full name, the date he joined (as an o... more information

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This pamphlet is of historical interest in that it was published in France in September 1918 by the Military SecretaryÕs Branch of General Headquarters of the BEF. It goes into great detail on the procedures, the qualifications and the eligibility of the various decorations. Thus, for the VC it is stipulated that eye-witness accounts are not only necessary but must also be in the hand-writing of the witness, unless the man cannot write or is unable to write because of wounds, in which case the accou... more information

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When war broke out the 1st R West Kents were stationed in Dublin, forming part of 13th Infantry Brigade, 5th Division which was one of the four original infantry divisions of the BEF. Apart from the four months December 1917 to March 1918, which was spent in Italy, the division served on the Western Front throughout the war. 1st R West Kents remained in the same brigade and division from start to finish. The battalion arrived in France on 15th August 1914, embarkation strength was 26 officers and 1015 othe... more information

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In the early 1920s £5,000 of the National War Memorial funds were spent collecting the records of all the fallen and publishing them in IrelandÕs Memorial Records. One hundred copies of the eight-volume set were printed Ôfor distribution through the principal libraries of the countryÕ.The printing, decoration and binding of the volumes was carried out by Irish artists and workers of the highest reputation and efficiencyÕ.The most remarkable feature of the volumes are the &O... more information

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In the early 1920s £5,000 of the National War Memorial funds were spent collecting the records of all the fallen and publishing them in IrelandÕs Memorial Records. One hundred copies of the eight-volume set were printed Ôfor distribution through the principal libraries of the countryÕ.The printing, decoration and binding of the volumes was carried out by Irish artists and workers of the highest reputation and efficiencyÕ.The most remarkable feature of the volumes are the &O... more information

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