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Author : Sir Henry John Newbolt
language : en
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Release Date : 2001
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Author : Henry Newbolt
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Release Date : 2001-08-30
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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.
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Author : Sir Henry John Newbolt
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Release Date : 1915
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Author : Henry Newbolt
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Release Date : 1915
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The Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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Author : Philip Booth
language : en
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Release Date : 1971
The Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Philip Booth and has been published by Leo Cooper Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with History categories.
Regimentsmarch i nodenotation. - Citater og omtale af en del erindringsbøger. - Introduktion til bogen ved Brian Horrocks.
History Of The 43rd And 52nd Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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Author : Captain J. E. H. Neville
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2012-03-27
History Of The 43rd And 52nd Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire Light Infantry written by Captain J. E. H. Neville and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with History categories.
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.
Regimental War Tales 1741 1914
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Author : Augustus Ferryman Mockler-Ferryman
language : en
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Release Date : 1915
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Author : Sir Henry John Newbolt
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Publisher: London : Country Life
Release Date : 1915
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A Bibliography Of Regimental Histories Of The British Army
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Author : Arthur S. White
language : en
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Release Date : 2013-02-04
A Bibliography Of Regimental Histories Of The British Army written by Arthur S. White and has been published by Andrews UK Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-04 with Reference categories.
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.
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Release Date : 1995
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