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The sixteen years between the suppression of tribal rebels in Waziristan and the unrest which welled up there in 1936 were something of a golden age for the British administration in the region. The tribes were quiescent and a 'steady drive by the Government to inculcate civilized ideas' went ahead unopposed. Even as nationalist agitation organised by the Indian National Congress convulsed other parts of the sub-continent, the tribes of the North-West frontier remained quiet. This volume of the Official History of militarty operations in the turbulent region attributes this relative passivity to the tribes having been humbled in 1919/20, and to the efficient deployment of troops by the authorities: 'The fact that there was little fighting and few major clashes...only demonstrates how little opportunity was afforded to the enemy. It shows how prudent were the dispositions and planning of Commanders and how efficient the bearing of the troops'. But the history concludes with words of warning that have a grim echo in the same troubled region today: ' Wars between 1st class modern powers come and go. Armaments and battle grounds change with each upheaval. The tribes of the North-West Frontier of India however remain as heretofore an unsolved problem. The Indian Army of the future will still have to deal with Mohmands and Afridis, Mahsuds and Wazirs...history repeats itself. Let it be read profitably.'

The diary of a gunnery officer during ten months service with the Naval Brigade in South Africa. Burne joined Gen. Buller's force in Natal taking part in operations at Chieveley, Colenso, Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz between December 1899 and February 1900.Following the relief of Ladysmith the naval detachment was broken up.The men of HMS Powerful and HMS Terrible being recalled for service elsewhere.Burne was taken ill with dysentery and sent to recuperate near Maritzburg.On return to service in April he was given command of a naval detachment in General Hildyard's brigade.The writer gives a personal account of the eastern advance with reference to the engagement at Almonds Nek in June 1900.Following a second bout of illness in July the author returned to his unit near Sandspriut in the Transvaal until recalled from active service in October 1900.The volume contains notes on gunnery together with a diary of the war up to October 25, 1900. Extracts from despatches and hints on clothing and equipment for active service are appended.

The 23rd Battalion, The London Regiment, which came into being on 1 April 1908 with the creation of the Territorial Force, was the lineal descendant of the Newington Surrey Volunteers, formed in 1799 as one of the corps of the new volunteers. During the Great War it had two active service battalions, 1/23rd, the original unit, and its second line, 2/23rd. There was also a third line , 3/23rd, but this unit served as a reserve battalion and did not go overseas. Apart from four pages on the 3/23rd this book is concerned entirely with the two active battalions. At the end there is a Roll of Honour which includes all those who died without distinguishing battalion. There is no list of Honours and Awards.1/23rd London went to France in March 1915 with 142nd Brigade, 47th London Division with which it remained throughout the war. Its first offensive operation was an attack on the German line at Givenchy on 25/26 May; the objective was seized but the cost was considerable - 237 killed and 262 wounded. Other major actions included Loos, Somme (581 casualties at High Wood), and Messines. The 2/23rd, raised in August 1914, had a more varied war. It went to France in June 1916 with the 181st Brigade 60th Division and spent the next four months in the Roclincourt sector (north of Arras). In November 1916 the division was transferred to the Macedonian front and there the battalion spent about six months holding a section of the line before the division was again moved, this time to Palestine, in June 1917. For the next year the battalion fought a much more active war against the Turks as part of the EEF under Allenby, but in May 1918 seven of the division's battalions, including 2/23rd, were transferred back to France where the German offensive was still in progress. In July the battalion joined 21st Brigade in the reconstituted 30th Division, its last change. This history is more concise than most with not a great deal of detail to expand on a straightforward factual account

This is an unusual book in that it is the record of a company, a company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers(RDF) - 'D' Company - at Gallipoli. The battalion was raised in August 1914 and allocated to 30th Brigade, 10th Irish Division. At the request of a Mr Browning, President of the Irish Rugby Football Union, the CO of the new battalion agreed to keep open a special company, 'D' Company as it was subsequently known, for "Pals" from the Irish Rugby Union volunteers. It was a remarkable mix of volunteers - barristers, doctors, solicitors, stockbrokers, bankers, civil servants and the like, nearly all well known in Dublin's public and social life. Training in Ireland went on until, on the last day of April 1915, 7th RDF sailed for Holyhead and from there travelled to Basingstoke, the concentration area of the 10th Division. The final period training at divisional level lasted to the end of June and a week later they were off to the Dardanelles.They landed at Suvla Bay on the morning of 7th August and there follows a comprehensive account of the fighting over the next few weeks, especially as it affected "D" Company. The first major battle was the attack on Chocolate Hill and then there was protracted fighting on Kizlar Dagh Ridge. Much of the description of the action is taken from letters and from personal memories of those who were there. The story ends soon after midnight 29th/30th September 1915 when the battalion was taken off the peninsula and brought to Lemnos. There is a final chapter on the work of the chaplains with the wounded.In an appendix there is a list of men of the battalion mentioned in despatches and the complete roll of the company showing five officers and 281 men and a further 23 transferred to "B" Companyfor the machine gun section. There is also a list of the 79 NCOs and men who survived to leave Suvla on 29th September. Finally there is a remarkable photographic section at the end depicting some 250 officers and men with brief biographical details and similar details for another 58 for whom there are no photos. This is certainly a very rare book.

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 the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the new regiment from 1881 to the eve of the S African War in 1898. In 1818 the 92nd embarked for Jamaica. The West Indies was a most unhealthy station because of yellow fever which carried off thousands of British troops in the nineteenthy century; the Gordons themselves lost ten officers, 275 other ranks, 34 wives and 31 children in six months in 1819. They went on to see action in India during the Mutiny and on the NW Frontier in the 2nd Afghan War, 1878-80, where they were awarded the Battle Honours Kabul and Kandahar, emblazoned on the Colours.The regiment that in 1881 was to become the 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders began life as the 75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot in 1787, known also as Abercromby's Highlanders after the man who raised them. With hardly any time to fall in they were off to India where they arrived in Bombay in August 1788 (700 strong) to take part in the campaign against Tippoo Sahib and gaining the Battle Honours Seringapatam and Mysore. In 1809, because the Highland population had become insufficient to supply recruits for the considerable number of Highland regiments then existing, the decision was taken to 'de-highlandise' several regiments including the 75th, and they handed in their kilts and sporrans and dropped the Highland designation. It wasn't until 1882 that the regiment, now 1st Gordon Highlanders, paraded in kilts once more. As 1st Gordons the battalion took part in the fighting in Egypt (Tel-el-Kebir), in the Sudan, in Chitral and the Tirah, When this history ends the 1st Battalion has arrived back in the UK and the 2nd Battalion is on its way to India. But again, the heart of this volume is the life of the Regiment, the social and economic changes over a hundred years, domestic details, in battle the numbers of casualties and identities, the arrival of drafts, promotions, discipline, physical descriptions, nationalities - in January 1890 out of a total 622 rank and file 470 were Scots, 137 English and 365 were 5ft 6 or under! What a marvellous military and sociological record.

Originally published: London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1925.

This regimental history is a revision and continuation up to 1910 of the printed Historical Record of the 17th Foot, published in 1848, by Richard Cannon of the War Office. Cannon produced a series of regimental histories in the mid-nineteenth century. The regiment was raised in 1688 by Colonel Solomon Richards for King James II, but a year later allegiance was switched to William III; its first Battle Honour was Namur, in 1695. The regiment was in N America during the War of Independence, then it was sent to the W Indies in the Wars of the French Revolution. In 1804 it went to India where it remained for twenty years, gaining several battle honours. In 1825 King George IV approved of the regiment "bearing on its colours and appointments the figure of the 'Royal Tiger' with the word 'Hindoostan' superscribed, as a lasting testimony of the exemplary conduct of the corps during the period of its service in India, from 1804 to 1823." Hence the regimental nickname "The Tigers." It was in the Crimea for 18 months from the end of 1854, and at the Siege of Redan Cpl Philip Smith became the first member of the regiment to receive the newly instituted Victoria Cross. In 1858 the 2nd Battalion was raised, though there had been a 2nd Battalion for three short years, 1799 to 1802. The 1st Battalion saw service in the Boer War. The story ends in 1910 with the 1st Battalion in Aldershot with a strength of 801 all ranks, the 2nd was in India (1,031 all ranks) where it had been adjudged the "best regiment at arms" (British regiments) at the 6th Divisional Assault at Arms, Poona. The final chapter is devoted to uniforms, equipment and the Colours (of the eleven colour plates two depict the Colours and the rest uniforms). Appendices list the succession of Colonels and give biographical details; give an account of the Siege of Londonderry in 1689 and the Battle of Sherriffmuir in 1715 and details of regimental silver and regimental music

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