Andrews UK

on Matters of Finance and Points of Discipline Immediately Connected TherewithMade at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, this compilation of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army on points of finance and discipline, gives an unrivalled picture of the framework of discipline which held officers and men of the British Army in one of its...

A Narrative of the Operations of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, 1897-1898Authentic account of the Field Forces operating on the NW Frontier of India 1897-98. Fincastle was awarded the VC during the Tirah campaign 1897 while serving with 16th Lancers....

Volume 2 of 2.An excellent research tool which lists 6586 former IMS personnel, giving details of their services, honours and awards, campaign medal entitlements, etc. This very large book also contains interesting information concerning Indian Medical Colleges and places of instruction. A primary source, by the same author who wrote the preceding...

1914-1918On 14th January, 1915, a letter from the War Office to the Mayor of Camberwell authorised the recruiting of a brigade of field artillery (156th Brigade R.F.A). The local response was so prompt that further authority was given to raise another brigade in the same neighbourhood, to be designated 162nd Brigade R.F.A. and this was done by mid...

August 17th, 1914-November 11th, 1918The frontispiece photo of this book says it all: it shows the 23 officers of the 12th battalion, Royal Lancers, grim faced and determined as they set off for France in August 1914. Four years later when the Great War ended in November 1918 , seven of the 23 (30 percent) have been killed - a very high fatal...

A fascinating look at University life in the Medieval era, written by Scottish historian, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Glasgow Sir Robert Sangster Rait Kt. CBE DL....