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Book Synopsis The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The Old 43rd and 52nd Regiments) by : Sir Henry John Newbolt
Download or read book The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (The Old 43rd and 52nd Regiments) written by Sir Henry John Newbolt and published by London : Country Life. This book was released on 1915 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by : Sir Henry John Newbolt
Download or read book The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Sir Henry John Newbolt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the Old 43rd and 52nd Regiments) by : Henry Newbolt
Download or read book The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the Old 43rd and 52nd Regiments) written by Henry Newbolt and published by . This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some time ago I read of an officer of the old 52nd who used to strop his razor fifty-two times every morning before shaving. In1881, when the Cardwell reforms took effect, the 52nd were linked with the 43rd. The officer concerned still stropped his razor fifty-two times but when he reached forty-three he turned his head to one side and spat. It is doubtful the author had ever heard this story because his version of the amalgamation speaks of brotherhood between the two regiments. Sir Henry Newbolt was a well-known literary figure of his time, poet, novelist, historian (he wrote the last two volumes of the Official Naval History) and very much a patriot. In this book he tells the story of both regiments from their formation to the end of 1914. Each chapter covers a specific period and the fortunes of the regiments during those periods are described five of the fifteen chapters are devoted to the Peninsular War. The 43rd was raised in 1741, at first as the 54th but this was changed in 1751 and in 1782 it became the Monmouthshires. The 52nd was raised in 1755, also as the 54th, but this number, too, was changed within a couple of years and in 1782 it became the Oxfordshire Regiment. The eventual union of these two regiments seems to have been pre-destined for not only did they begin life with the same Foot number, they served together in the American War of Independence; in 1803 they were both redesignated Light Infantry under General Moore; in 1807 they went together on the Copenhagen expedition; they fought together through the seven years of the Peninsular War in which they were awarded identical battle honours and in 1881 they were linked to become the 1st (43rd Foot) and 2nd (52nd Foot) Battalions of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry Regiment. In 1908 there was another change in title when the regiment was designated the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and although this event took place within the time frame of this history, Newbolt makes no mention of it let alone explain it; so I, for one, still have no idea how or why Buckinghamshire got into the act. Of two appendices, one reproduces the list of officers as published in the September 1915 Army List (corrected to August 31st 1914) and the other lists the officer casualties for the first year of the Great War, that is to the end of August 1915.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by : Henry Newbolt
Download or read book The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Henry Newbolt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by : Philip Booth
Download or read book The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Philip Booth and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1971 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regimentsmarch i nodenotation. - Citater og omtale af en del erindringsbøger. - Introduktion til bogen ved Brian Horrocks.
Book Synopsis Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by : Sir Henry John Newbolt
Download or read book Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Sir Henry John Newbolt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regimental War Tales, 1741-1914 by : Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman
Download or read book Regimental War Tales, 1741-1914 written by Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army by : Arthur S. White
Download or read book A Bibliography of Regimental Histories of the British Army written by Arthur S. White and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography 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. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Book Synopsis History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry by : Captain J. E. H. Neville
Download or read book History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry written by Captain J. E. H. Neville and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's British soldiers serving in Iraq will know the country in which much of this unit history is set - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers known in the Great War as Mesopotamia. Unusually for such a work of record, the author lays down the background to the Great War in the Middle East in some detail - stressing such factors as the German-Turkish alliance; the building of the Berlin to Baghdad railway and Britain's interest in the Persian ( Iranian) oilfields. He also reports events with a topical resonance today - such as anti-British riots in Basra, and the declaration of a ‘JIhad’. The 43rd took part in the defeat of the Turks at Khan Baghdadi, and after the armistice in the spring of 1919 was re-deployed to Archangel in northern Russia in an effort to nip the Bolshevik revoloution in the bud. Under the command of General Sir Edmund ‘Tiny’ Ironside the 43rd battled gallantly against Bolshevik forces, although beset by flies, mosquitoes, bloodsucking ticks called clegs - and their unreliable White Russian allies. At last, partly through lack of progress and partly due to political pressure against an un popular foreign adventure - another echo of today- the unit was withdrawn in the autumn of 1919. An intriguing and unusual account of two little-known camapigns with eerily prophetic echoes of events in Iraq today.
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Book Synopsis The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by : G. K. Rose
Download or read book The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by G. K. Rose and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Service of British Regiments in Canada and North America by : Charles Herbert Stewart
Download or read book The Service of British Regiments in Canada and North America written by Charles Herbert Stewart and published by Department of National Defence, Library. This book was released on 1964 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Sense of the Great War by : Alex Mayhew
Download or read book Making Sense of the Great War written by Alex Mayhew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War was an unprecedented crisis, with communities and societies enduring the unimaginable hardships of a prolonged conflict on an industrial scale. In Belgium and France, the terrible capacity of modern weaponry destroyed the natural world and exposed previously held truths about military morale and tactics as falsehoods. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers suffered some of the worst conditions that combatants have ever faced. How did they survive? What did it mean to them? How did they perceive these events? Whilst the trenches of the Western Front have come to symbolise the futility and hopelessness of the Great War, Alex Mayhew shows that English infantrymen rarely interpreted their experiences in this way. They sought to survive, navigated the crises that confronted them, and crafted meaningful narratives about their service. Making Sense of the Great War reveals the mechanisms that allowed them to do so.
Book Synopsis History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918 by : Simon Harris
Download or read book History of the 43rd and 52nd (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) Light Infantry in the Great War, 1914-1918 written by Simon Harris and published by Godsfield Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed by : Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries
Download or read book Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword by : Andrew Bamford
Download or read book Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword written by Andrew Bamford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic Wars. In the process, he offers a fresh and controversial look at Britain’s military system, showing that success or failure on campaign rested on the day-to-day experiences of regimental units rather than the army as a whole. Bamford draws his title from the words of Captain Moyle Sherer, who during the winter of 1816–1817 wrote an account of his service during the Peninsular War: “My regiment has never been very roughly handled in the field. . . But, alas! What between sickness, suffering, and the sword, few, very few of those men are now in existence.” Bamford argues that those daily scourges of such often-ignored factors as noncombat deaths and equine strength and losses determined outcomes on the battlefield. In the nineteenth century, the British Army was a collection of regiments rather than a single unified body, and the regimental system bore the responsibility of supplying manpower on that field. Between 1808 and 1815, when Britain was fighting a global conflict far greater than its military capabilities, the system nearly collapsed. Only a few advantages narrowly outweighed the army’s increasing inability to meet manpower requirements. This book examines those critical dynamics in Britain’s major early-nineteenth-century campaigns: the Peninsular War (1808–1814), the Walcheren Expedition (1809), the American War (1812–1815), and the growing commitments in northern Europe from 1813 on. Drawn from primary documents, Bamford’s statistical analysis compares the vast disparities between regiments and different theatres of war and complements recent studies of health and sickness in the British Army.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the War Office Library by : Great Britain. War Office. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the War Office Library written by Great Britain. War Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
