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At the end of August 1914 the author applied for a commision in the Yeomanry and in September was gazetted in the newly formed 2/1 Shropshire Yeomanry. He spent the next two years in England training as a cavalryman and a cyclist, a period he sketches over lightly in the first two chapters. Active service began towards the end of 1916 when he went with a draft to France where he was posted to the 6th Battalion KingÕs Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) and had to accustom himself to being an infantryma... more information

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ÒIn offering the following pages to the Public, the Compilers trust that they are not too late in attempting to excite an interest relative to the last earthly tenements of those gallant ones who, while they lived, were their countryÕs noblest pride, and now that they can fight her victories no more, assert a just claim to her undying remembrance.Ó With this opening sentence i their introduction the compilers of the book, Captain The Hon John Colborne, 60th Royal Rifles (KRRC), late 77... more information

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A memorial to officers who lost their lives in the war together with information, where available, in regard to their careers and services.A list of war correspondents and nursing sisters who died during the conflict is includedSpecimen Entry:Lieut. Col. Henry Averell Eagar, commanding the 2nd Batt. Royal Irish Rifles, died at Burghersdorp Feb 13th, 1900, from wounds received in action at Stormberg Dec. 10th 1899. born in April, 1853, he joined the 83rd Foot from the Royal South Down Light Infantry Mi... more information

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The Crimean War acquired its grim notoriety not least because of the frankness of the letters and despatches from the field that shocked the mid-Victorian newspaper reading public. ÔThe TimesÕ correspondent in the Crimea, William Howard Russell, became a household name with his graphic descriptions of the fighting and the suffering of the inadequately clad and led troops. Here, in the same tradition, are the Crimean letters of Captain [later Lieut. Col.] Sir Anthony Coningham Sterling, who cam... more information

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The writer of these letters, Colonel Sir Augustus Simon Frazer, K.C.B, was born in September 1776 and a month before his fourteenth birthday he was admitted as a Gentleman Cadet into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In September 1793 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery and in December he joined the army in Flanders, then under the command of HRH the Duke of York. He was promoted Lieutenant in January 1794 and saw action in the Flanders campaign, returning to E... more information

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A vividly topical eye-witness account of a key episode in the long struggle between Islam and Christendom. The author reported the 1877 war between the Russian and Ottoman Turk empires that resulted in a Russian victory and the establishment of Bulgaria after centuries of Turkish rule from both sides of the lines. Written some two decades later, this book gives an unsparing narrative of a war correspondentÕs war, complete with many fine - some of them gruesome - illustrations and battle maps show... more information

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Lieut.-General Sir James OutramÕs account of his role in the Indian Mutiny, drawn from his own orders and dispatches, and originally privately circulated among his friends. The book is edited by an anonymous Ôliterary gentleman of military knowledge and experienceÕ. Outram is chiefly remembered for his first relief of the besieged British community at Lucknow, in conjunction with Sir Henry Havelock. The siege was then renewed, until Lucknow was finally relieved by Sir Colin Campbell i... more information

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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... more information

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This volume of the history (concerned only with the 92nd Foot) was first published in 1901 and the preface to that edition is incorporated in this 2nd edition. The author explains that it was his object, in matters of general history, merely to give the reason for the various expeditions in which the regiment was involved, and in describing the operations to confine himself to the part played by it. He has attached importance to the interior economy and discipline of a Highland regiment with many fascinati... more information

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The first part of this book takes the history of the 92nd from the year following Waterloo to 1882, when the results of the Cardwell Reforms had just come into effect, and the 92nd had linked with the 75th to form Gordon Highlanders, the 75th becoming the 1st Battalion of the new regiment, the 92nd the 2nd Battalion. The story then switches to the 75th Foot from its beginnings in 1787 and takes it through to 1881when it became 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders. The last few chapters deal with the history of... more information

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The hero of this book is Private George Farmer who served for 28 years in the army for which he received a pension of tenpence a day. He kept a journal during his service and after his discharge he brought it to G.R. Gleig in the hope it might bring him something to supplement his not-overly generous pension. Gleig rewrote the narrative and got it published thus remunerating the old soldier Ôto his heartÕs content.Õ Farmer enlisted in 1808 in the 11th Light Dragoons which became the 11... more information

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It may not be widely known but a large number of Irish soldiers deserted their own army during WWII (Eire remained neutral) and crossed the sea to join the British army. Once the war was over these men were officially dismissed the service and their names published in this confidential document. The formal title of the document is ÒList of personnel of the Defence Forces dismissed for desertion in time of National Emergency pursuant to the terms of Emergency Powers (No 362) Order 1945 (S.R. & O.... more information

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This is a remarkable publication, a precurser of the Army List, in which every Militia and Volunteer unit is listed with the names of their officers. The date of publication, 14th October 1805, is precisely one week before the Battle of Trafalgar. The history of the Militia and the Volunteers goes back several hundred years, before the creation of the regular army in 1660, when they provided armed forces for the defence of the kingdom as well as men for overseas campaigns. Once the regular army had come in... more information

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First printed 1919 for private circulation and republished in 1988,& 1998 this rare volume was compiled from records kept by Messrs Cox & Co.Õs Enquiry Office, which opened in Sep 1914 in CraigÕs 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 ... more information

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The Liverpool Scottish was the 10th Battalion of the KingÕs (Liverpool) Regiment, a Territorial battalion, and this history was written to help ex-members keep fresh the memory of what they had been through during the Great War, and secondly as an example to encourage new members to uphold the high reputation inherited from those who had gone before. Although it was the 10th (TF) Battalion of a line regiment the author has treated it as a regiment in its own right (like the London Scottish) with a 1... more information

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This book was published by the London County Council, to be presented to each member of the staff who served in the Great War, or to the next-of-kin of those who died on service, as a mark of the CouncilÕs appreciation. It is a short history of the war so far as the staff were concerned, with brief particulars of their service. The maps show practically every place mentioned in the battle areas. The narrative and comments are based for the most part on the despatches of the various theatre commander... more information

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Army Council Instruction (ACI) 2268 of 6th December 1916 authorised the formation, in London, of No.309 (Honourable Artillery Company) Siege Battery, R.G.A. from personnel of the H.A.C. with effect from 27th November 1916. It was to be equipped with four 6-inch B.L. Howitzers. After five months training in various camps in the UK the Battery landed at Le Havre on 27th April 1917 with a full complement of 137 officers and men, and a week later it went up to the line in Ypres as one of the five batteries co... more information

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The subtitle describes the scope of this book which has been written in the style of a novel based on the authorÕs experiences - at least thatÕs how it seems to me. The characters in it are fictitious, certainly none of the officers named can be found in any Army List. Coldicott does not say what his unit was nor his brigade nor division but it is clear that the ÔLondon MenÕ are from the 60th London Division, a TF second-line formation, which went to France in June 1916, four mon... more information

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The London Scottish originated in 1859 at a meeting of the Scottish residents in London at the FreemasonsÕ Tavern, in which it was decided to form a Volunteer Rifle Corps, to be designated the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. A half company served with the Gordon Highlanders in S Africa and other volunteers in the City Imperial Volunteers. When the Territorial Force was created in 1908 the London Scottish became the 14th Battalion of the newly formed London Regiment, in the 4th London Brigade of th... more information

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Published in 1917 this pamphlet gives details of the long barrel Luger pistol, sometime known as the ÒNavyÓ Luger. It also has details and photographs, not only of the weapon, but of the snail magazine and the detachable stock/holster which could be used to convert the pistol into a carbine fro use in trench fighting. The ÒBoloÓ Mauser was a similar weapon.Useful for all who are interested in German trench fighting methods and equipment, and for the gun student, as the pamp... more information

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