Twenty Five Years In The Rifle Brigade Classic Reprint

Author : Gerald Edmund Boyle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390920949
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Rifle Brigade Century written by Gerald Edmund Boyle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rifle Brigade Century: An Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Rifle Brigade (the Prince Consorts Own) (Regular Battalions), From 1800 to 1905 Mr. Stooks Smith on lst September, 1851, but the lapse Of so many years, with the large augmentations that have since taken place in the Regiment, and the occurrence Of the Crimean, Indian, and African Wars, in which its Batta lions took part, have increased the contents of the former fully threefold as compared with those of the original work. Without going into superfluous details, it may be mentioned that Of a total of 658 notices of Officers in Mr. Smith's List, 233 only were completed in it; Of the remainder, 7 9 (of whom 14 survive) were at the date Of its publication on the strength Of the Regiment, and the balance were serving otherwise or had quitted the service. Of the latter, many predeceased Mr. Smith, but unknown to him, and these have now as far as possible been traced. In the new book 765 entirely new names have been introduced, and, with less than a dozen exceptions, these have all been accounted for in the present volume. In the grand total of 1433 names, it has been thought advisable to include those of some officers who never actually served in it: some of these exchanged into the Regiment in order to retire by' sale Of commission, and on doing so were given brevet pro motion as oflicers Of the Rifle Brigade, and others exchanged to half pay of the corps from other regiments. The Compiler would wish to express his sincere thanks to the many Officers and others to whom he is indebted for various information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.