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Author: Anthony Baker
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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"This is a remarkable work of reference. It brings together into one comprehensive volume the story of of the achievements of the British and Commonwealth armies over 300 years of service. It tells of and lists the battles fought, whether they were honoured or -- equally importante -- whether they were not and are now largely forgotten, and which regiments were involved ..." -- Inside front cover.

Author: Charles Boswell Norman
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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In 'Battle Honours of the British Army' by Charles Boswell Norman, readers are taken on a comprehensive journey through the various battle honours earned by the British Army throughout its history. Through meticulous research and detailed accounts, the book provides a scholarly examination of the military achievements and historical significance of these honours. Norman's writing style is both informative and engaging, making this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in military history and traditions. This work is a testament to the bravery and sacrifices made by British soldiers on the battlefield, offering a deeper understanding of the importance of these honours within the context of British military history. Charles Boswell Norman, a noted military historian and author, brings his expertise and passion for military history to 'Battle Honours of the British Army'. His dedication to preserving and sharing the stories of the British Army's accomplishments is evident in the meticulous research and attention to detail found in this book. For readers interested in delving into the rich history of the British Army and gaining a deeper appreciation for its achievements, 'Battle Honours of the British Army' is a must-read. Norman's extensive knowledge and engaging writing style make this book an essential addition to any military history enthusiast's collection.

Author: From Off Compiled from Official Records
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ISBN: 9781843426943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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In February 1925 the War Office published an Army Order listing the battle honours awarded for the Great War, and although this was announced as the final list there were subsequent revisions and minor amendments. No such list was published after WWII but an (unofficial?) Record was published in 1958 by the War Office, with a limited distribution, which included the Korean War battle honours, and this is that list with 651 actions. This Record covers only British, including British Gurkha, Regiments and Colonial Regiments. In most cases there is a brief summary of the operations with an indication of the troops involved and these include Commonwealth troops though the question of their Battle Honours is one for the Commonwealth Government concerned and the Sovereign. There were a good many errors in the list, typographical, grammatical, misspelling of place names, dates and order of battle. In some cases there was confusion between those battle honours which were selected to be carried on the Colours and those which were simply awarded. Strange new regiments appeared:- Highlanders Light Infantry (a persistent favourite), King s Own Yeomanry Light Infantry, the K.A.R.R.R.C, London Irish Fusiliers, London Irish Buffs, Queen s Own Nigeria Regiment (an unauthorised Queen s Own ), and the Royal West King Regiment, to name some of them. Place names also caused some trouble and in some of the brief descriptions of the engagements or actions there were order of battle mistakes such as the confusion between the 12th Frontier Force Regiment and 13th Frontier Force Rifles, two different regiments of the old Indian Army. The index contained scores of place names that had nothing to do with anything, this has been pruned drastically so that it contains only those places for which a battle honour was awarded. Every effort has been made to eliminate errors and present a corrected version and a number of sources was used the most important of which was H.C.B.Cook s The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1662-1982, a magnificent piece of work. Other valuable works included: Orders of BattleSecond World War 1939-1945 H.F.Joslen; Commonwealth Divisions 1939-1945 Malcolm A.Bellis; A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army Arthur Swinson; Regiments and Corps of the British Army Ian S.Hallows and Handbook of British Regiments Christopher Chant.

Author: C. B. Norman
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736408714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 683

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From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII. London Maida, July 4, 1806. Mediterranean. Mediterranean, 1901-02. The War of the Spanish Succession. Blenheim, August 2, 1704. Ramillies, May 12, 1706. Oudenarde, June 30, 1708. Malplaquet, September 11, 1709. Dettingen, June 27, 1743. Minden, August 1, 1759. Emsdorff, July 16, 1760. Warburg, July 31, 1760. Wilhelmstahl, June 24, 1762. Louisburg, July 25, 1758. Quebec, September 12, 1759. Monte Video, 1807. Detroit Queenstown Miami Niagara Bladensburg, August 24, 1814. Arcot, August 31, 1751. Plassey, June 23, 1757. Condore, December 9, 1758. Masulipatam, April 8, 1759. Badara, November 25, 1759. Wandewash, January 22, 1760. Pondicherry, 1761, 1778, 1793. Buxar, October 23, 1764. Rohilcund, 1774. The Carnatic. Guzerat, 1778-1782. Sholinghur, September 27, 1781. Mangalore, 1783. Mysore. Nundy Droog, October 19, 1791. Rohilcund, 1794. Seedaseer, March 6, 1799. Seringapatam, May 4, 1799. Lincelles, August 18, 1793. Nieuport, October, 1793. Villers-en-Couches, April 24, 1794. Beaumont, April 26, 1794. Willems, May 10, 1794. Tournay, May 22, 1794. Egmont-op-Zee, October 2, 1799. Guadeloupe, 1759. Martinique, 1762. Havana. St. Lucia, 1778. Martinique, 1794. St. Lucia, 1794. St. Lucia, 1796. Surinam, 1804. Dominica, 1805. Martinique, 1809. Guadeloupe, 1810. Egypt (with the Sphinx). Mandora, March 13, 1802. Marabout, August 17, 1802. Egypt, 1882. Tel-el-Kebir, September 12, 1882. Nile, 1884-85. Abu Klea, January 28, 1885. Kirbekan, February 10, 1885. Suakin, 1885.[11] Tofrek, March 22, 1885. Hafir. Atbara, April 8, 1898. Khartoum, 1898. Ally-Ghur, September 3, 1803. Delhi, September 11, 1803. Assaye, September 23, 1803. Laswarree, November 1, 1803. Deig, November 13 to December 23, 1804. Cochin, 1809. Roleia, August 17, 1808. Vimiera, August 21, 1808. Sahagun, December 21, 1808. Corunna, January 16, 1809. Douro. Busaco, September 27, 1810. Barrosa, March 4, 1811. Fuentes d'Onor, May 5, 1811. Albuera, May 16, 1811. Almaraz, May 19, 1811. Arroyos dos Molinos, October 28, 1811. Tarifa, December, 1811. Ciudad Rodrigo, January, 1812. Badajoz, March and April, 1812. Salamanca, July 22, 1812. Vittoria, June 21, 1813. Pyrenees, July 28 to August 2, 1813. San Sebastian, August, 1813. Nivelle, November 10, 1813. Nive, December 9 to 13, 1813. Orthes, February 27, 1814. Toulouse, April 10, 1814. Peninsula, 1808-1814. Waterloo, June 18, 1815. The Order of the Bath. Kirkee, November 5, 1817. Seetabuldee, November 26, 1817. Nagpore, December 16, 1817. Maheidpore, December 23, 1817. Corygaum, January 1, 1818. Nowah, January 21, 1819. Medal for the Second Mahratta War. Bhurtpore, January, 1826. Hindoostan. India. Amboyna, 1796 and 1810. Ternate, 1801 and 1810. Banda, 1796 and 1810. Arabia, 1809. Bourbon, July 8, 1810.[18] Java, 1811. Persian Gulf, 1819. Beni Boo Alli, March, 1821. Aden, 1839. Persia, 1856-57. Bushire, December 5, 1856. Reshire, December 7, 1856. Koosh-ab, February 8, 1857. Ava, 1824-1826. Kemmendine, November 30 to December 9, 1824. Arracan, 1825. Pegu. Burmah, 1885-1887. Afghanistan. Ghuznee, 1839. Khelat, November 13, 1839. Kahun, 1840. Jelalabad. Khelat-i-Ghilzai. Cutchee, 1839-1842.[22] Scinde, 1843. Meeanee, February 17, 1843. Hyderabad, March 24, 1843. Maharajpore and Punniar, December 29, 1843. Moodkee, December 18, 1845. Ferozeshah, December 21, 1845. Aliwal, January 28, 1868. Sobraon, February 10, 1846. Punjaub. Chillianwallah, January 13, 1849. Mooltan, January, 1849. Goojerat, February 21, 1849. Alma, September 20, 1854. Inkerman, November 5, 1854. Sevastopol. The Victoria Cross. Delhi, May to September, 1857. Lucknow. Relief of Lucknow by Sir Colin Campbell, November, 1857. Siege and Capture of Lucknow. Central India, 1857 ...

Author: C. B. Norman
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265456163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Excerpt from Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII West Indies, 17 59-1810 Guadeloupe, I 759 Martinique, 1762 Havana St. Lucia, 1778 Martinique, 1 794 - St. Lucia, 1796 - St. Lucia, 180 3 - Surinam - Dominica. 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.

Author: C. B. Norman
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354591266
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Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: Compiled from official records
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1781513791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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In February 1925 the War Office published an Army Order listing the battle honours awarded for the Great War, and although this was announced as the final list there were subsequent revisions and minor amendments. No such list was published after WWII but an (unofficial?) Record was published in 1958 by the War Office, with a limited distribution, which included the Korean War battle honours, and this is that list with 651 actions. This Record covers only British, including British Gurkha, Regiments and Colonial Regiments. In most cases there is a brief summary of the operations with an indication of the troops involved and these include Commonwealth troops though the question of their Battle Honours is one for the Commonwealth Government concerned and the Sovereign. There were a good many errors in the list, typographical, grammatical, misspelling of place names, dates and order of battle. In some cases there was confusion between those battle honours which were selected to be carried on the Colours and those which were simply awarded. Strange new regiments appeared:- Highlanders Light Infantry (a persistent favourite), King's Own Yeomanry Light Infantry, the K.A.R.R.R.C, London Irish Fusiliers, London Irish Buffs, Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment (an unauthorised ‘Queen’s Own’), and the Royal West King Regiment, to name some of them. Place names also caused some trouble and in some of the brief descriptions of the engagements or actions there were order of battle mistakes such as the confusion between the 12th Frontier Force Regiment and 13th Frontier Force Rifles, two different regiments of the old Indian Army. The index contained scores of place names that had nothing to do with anything, this has been pruned drastically so that it contains only those places for which a battle honour was awarded. Every effort has been made to eliminate errors and present a corrected version and a number of sources was used the most important of which was H.C.B.Cook’s The Battle Honours of the British and Indian Armies 1662-1982, a magnificent piece of work. Other valuable works included: Orders of BattleSecond World War 1939-1945 H.F.Joslen; Commonwealth Divisions 1939-1945 Malcolm A.Bellis; A Register of the Regiments and Corps of the British Army Arthur Swinson; Regiments and Corps of the British Army Ian S.Hallows and Handbook of British Regiments Christopher Chant.

Author: Charles Boswell Norman
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781360524191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Author: Jonathan Fennell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107609877
Category : History
Languages : en
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Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on new sources to reveal the true wartime experience of the ordinary rank and file, Jonathan Fennell fundamentally challenges our understanding of the War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change. He uncovers how fractures on the home front had profound implications for the performance of the British and Commonwealth armies and he traces how soldiers' political beliefs, many of which emerged as a consequence of their combat experience, proved instrumental to the socio-political changes of the postwar era. Fighting the People's War transforms our understanding of how the great battles were won and lost as well as how the postwar societies were forged.