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During the Great War eight battalions of the regiment went on active service and another seven (including 1st Garrison Battalion) served at home. No less than 32,000 men passed through the ranks of the regiment of whom some 6,000 died; forty-eight battle honours were awarded and one VC. Appendices contain separate rolls of honour of officers and other ranks with names grouped alphabetically by ranks; all ranks list of honours and awards and foreign awards, and separate lists of Mention in Despatches. The 1st, 6th, 7th and 8th Battalions served on the Western Front, the 2nd Battalion in Macedonia with 28th Division following ten months in France and Belgium, the 1/4th in India and Aden, 1/5th in India and Mesopotamia and finally the 10th Battalion (formed in Egypt in Feb 1917 from two converted Kent yeomanry regiments) fought in Palestine and on the Western Front with 74th (Yeomanry) Division.Apart from one chapter describing the raising of wartime battalions and the initial disposition of the two TF battalions, and one on their affiliated regiment, the Queen''s Own Rifles of Canada, the chapters of this history each cover well-defined periods of the war in the various theatres in which the parts played by all battalions involved are recorded. The groundwork or skeleton is based on battalion, brigade or divisional war diaries, fleshed out by personal narratives and diaries provided by men who had fought and survived. Where possible, the names of the officers who became casualties in any action are given in the text after the record of the battle, but only the number in the case of other ranks. Again, wherever possible the recipients of honours (all ranks) have been named in the account as news of their decorations reached their battalion. A good history.

Written by a junior participating officer, this is a vivid account of the everyday life of British officers and their Indian troops on a frontier expedition in India in the 1890s. In the author's own words, rather than 'exciting adventures of heroic deeds' his account speaks of 'How we lived and marched, what we ate and drank, our small jokes and trials, our marches through snow or rain, hot valleys or pleasant fields'. The Chitral expedition, led by Colonel Kelly, on whose staff Beynon served, successfully relieved a British garrison beset by rebellious tribesmen on the always turbulent north-west frontier. Beynon gives a lively account of military life in turn-of-the-century British India.

The Scottish Volunteer Force was a large territorial force created in 1859 including cavalry and engineers, and were the template for the later Territorial Army. 47 full colour plates (depicting 210 uniform illustrations) The standard work.

The 9th Jats were an Indian Army regiment first raised by the East India Company in 1803 as the 22nd Bengal Regiment of Native Infantry. The unit was immediately plunged into the Mahratta wars, before embarking on the first Afghan War, the Sikh Wars and the Burma wars. During the Indian Mutiny, the regiment remained relatively inactive, although their British officers took part in the mutiny's suppression. Between the mutiny and the Great War the unit was involved in fresh fighting in Burma, Assam, Somaliland and the Boxer Rising in China. The regiment went to France on the outbreak of war in 1914, but their sojourn in the trenches was brief, and they were soon in Egypt training for the war in Mesopotamia (Iraq). After the war, the regiment took part in the third Afghan war and the tribal fighting in Waziristan. This is a full and account of a distinguished Indian regiment, and is accompanied by appendices listing the regiment's honours, awards and colours, and by four illustrated plates and six maps.

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"We have given the Gallic cockerel a vast heap of sand" said British Foreign secretary Lord Salisbury after Britain and France divided much of Africa between them. 'Let him scratch it how he will'. France's chief 'sandpit' was Algeria, conquered in 1830 in the otherwise undistinguished reign of King Louis-Philippe. with the aid of the newly-formed French Foreign Legion who were to be based in Algeria for the next century and beyond. The story of that conquest is recounted here for the first time in English by a British officer in a book first published in 1909. Algeria was wrested from the feeble hands of the Dey of Algiers, the Arab ruler who paid homage to the Ottoman Empire - already far gone in decay. But if getting hold of the vast country, mostly composed of barren desert and mountains, was comparatively easy, keeping it was to prove a nightmare from which France only awoke in 1962 when Algeria gained independence. Laurie's book is a clear and concise account of a colonial conquest in a part of the world where conflict continues to this day.