AFGHAN CAMPAIGNS OF 1878 1880 HISTORICAL DIVISION
Historical Division, containing summaries of the movements in the field of the various regiments which were engaged, and separate records of the services of every British Officer who was employed in the war.
AFGHAN CAMPAIGNS OF 1878 1880 BIOGRAPHICAL DIVISION
Biographical Division, containing a rapid sketch of the war, maps, illustrating the operations and the movements of the forces, one hundred and forty photographs of officers who lost their lives in the campaigns and of recipients of the Victoria Cross, with memoirs prepared from materials furnished by their relations and surviving comrades.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE READER’S GUIDE: ARMY RECORDS FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS
A fully revised and illustrated new edition of this popular Readers’ Guide to some of the most heavily used records in the Public Record Office. It offers clear and comprehensive advice on tracing army ancestors from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Now with detailed case studies and full coverage of medals and awards.
ARMY REGULATIONS (INDIA) 1913. VOLUME VII. DRESS
An interesting historical document containing the orders of the Government of India on the Dress of the Army in India, issued under the authority of Major-General W.R. Birdwood (just over two years later he would be commanding the Anzacs at Gallipoli).
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BURMA VICTORY
The battles of Imphal and Kohima were extremely complex, and fought over confusing terrain. David Rooney’s analysis finally sets the record clear and straight, and ensures that the bravery and suffering of those who fought these two crucial battles is remembered.
BURMA 1942: THE JAPANESE INVASION
This book is subtitled ‘Both Sides Tell the Story of a Savage Jungle War’ and it makes extensive use of information from both sides, thus providing a comprehensive account of the First Burma Campaign.
CHITRAL.
The Story of a Minor Siege
Account of a siege on North West Frontier of India that lasted some seven weeks in March/April 1895.
COLONIAL WARS SOURCE BOOK
In this book the author considers first the British forces, their strengths, weapons, strategy etc and then goes on to deal with each of the theatres of war in turn - India, Middle East, Africa, Far East, Americas and Australasia.
DEEDS THAT THRILLED THE EMPIRE
FORTY-ONE YEARS IN INDIA: From Salbaltern to Commander-in-Chief
A comprehensive memoir of Lord Roberts’ military service in India from 1852 to 1893.
GURKHAS AT WAR: In Their Own Words: the Gurkha Experience, 1939 to the Present
This collection of eyewitness material offers an unprecedented contribution to the history of the Gurkhas, a famed but mysterious brigade whose story has always been told by ‘outsiders’.
HART’S ANNUAL ARMY LIST for 1840 (corrected to 7 February 1840)
Issued under the title ‘New Annual Army List’. War services referred to include Waterloo, the Peninsula, Mahratta War 1817/18, Burma 1825/26, First Kaffir War 1834/35, Flanders, etc.
HART’S ANNUAL ARMY LIST for 1860 (corrected to 29 December 1859)
This is the issue for services in the Crimea and Indian Mutiny especially.
HART’S ANNUAL ARMY LIST for 1885 (corrected to 30 December 1884)
Includes Militia List and Indian Civil Service List, Indian Staff Corps and Indian Local Forces.
HART’S ANNUAL ARMY LIST for 1906 (corrected to 31 December 1905)
This is the issue for the Nile Expedition 1898, South African War 1899-1902, British Central Africa, Boxer Rebellion, Operations on N.W. Frontier on India 1897/98.
HART’S ARMY LIST 1895
Reprint of the Hart’s Army List for the first quarter of 1895 which includes the Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry, The Royal Marines, Indian Staff Corps and Local Indian Forces.
INDIA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL ROLL 1908-1935 to the RAF.
RAF personnel qualified for nine campaign clasps and this medal roll, transcribed from a card index formerly held at the Air Ministry, lists all recipients with clasp details and, where appropriate, squadron with which serving at the time.
INDIAN ARMY LIST 1919
The January and July issues of the Indian Army List contain not only the distribution of officers on the active list of the Army in India, including officers of British army regiments, battalions etc stationed in India, but are supplemented by the addition of Orders of Knighthood, Honours and Awards, including Foreign Orders, by the non-effective officer list and the War Services of officers of the Indian Army.
HART’S ANNUAL ARMY LIST for 1915
INDIAN MUTINY
The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was a huge and bloody struggle, a ‘Devil’s Wind’ of retribution and death that swept across the jungles, hills and parched plains of the Indian sub-continent.
INDIAN CORPS IN FRANCE
The Indian Corps, which consisted of two infantry divisions (Meerut and Lahore), arrived in France in September/October 1914.
INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857
An account of the great Mutiny with a well-reasoned analysis of the real reasons for the outbreak - and it wasn’t the popular version of greased cartridges.
IRISH RECORDS. SOURCES FOR FAMILY AND LOCAL HISTORY
This work gives a comprehensive listing of sources for each county in Ireland, both North and South.
IRISH REGIMENTS 1683-1999
A handsome new edition of this superbly illustrated collective history of all the irish regiments, past and present, who have served in the British Army with such distinction during the past 300 years - during war and peace, at home and abroad.
LOW`S HISTORY of the INDIAN NAVY
Extremely rare work, covering the life span of the Indian Navy, 1600 to 1863. Operations from the Persian Gulf to the Burma and First China Wars, from Aden to New Zealand and the Maori Wars, and the Indian Mutiny. Survey work from the Red Sea to the China Seas.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIR FREDERICK S. ROBERTS Bart VC GCB CIE RA: A Memoir
A comprehensive biography of General Roberts VC up to 1882. It describes the services of his distinguished father, General Sir Abraham Roberts and traces FS Roberts’ life from childhood.
MILITARY ENGINEER IN INDIA
This is a remarkably detailed history of the Royal Engineers in India beginning with the first British Engineers at the time of the establishment of the East India Company.
This is the bible for commonwealth badges of the Great War. The text to accompany the illustrations is of an exceptionally high standard. Chapters cover the badges of Australia, Canada, Colonies Dependencies and Protectorates, United Kingdom, Indian Empire, New Zealand and South Africa.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE READER’S GUIDE: NAVAL RECORDS FOR GENEALOGISTS
‘A clear and easier path into naval records; a “must” for those with naval ancestry’ Genealogists’ Magazine.
REGIMENTS. Regiments and Corps of the British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993 A Critical Bibliography of their Published Histories
This unique award-winning reference work was published in 1994, and a small stock is still available at its original price. If produced today, given the subsequent increases in binding and paper costs, it would retail for at least £135.OO.
REGIMENTAL
LIFE IN THE BRITISH ARMY IN INDIA
1921-1922
A nostalgic look back on the days of the Raj, as seen through the eyes of a soldier in the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment.
SCOTTISH
REGIMENTS
1633-1996
The twelve Scottish Regiments, one cavalry, one guards and ten infantry of the line, have a collective reputation for fighting second to none, but each maintains a distinctive style and ethos.
TRADITION BOOK OF THE GURKHAS
The intention of this book is to give a broad outline of the colour and style of the costume of each of the ten regiments that comprised the Gurkha Brigade before partition, and then to supplement the notes with really detailed accounts of the various interesting and unusual uniforms taken from photographic and other contemporary material.
SEPOYS
IN THE TRENCHES.
The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-1915
This is an excellent history of a Corps which has rarely been given the credit it deserved, and it worthy tribute to the old Indian Army.
It is more than eighty years since the record of the Indian Corps on the Western Front was first published, in 1917, with the title The Indian Corps in France, at the behest and under the authority of the India Office; in 1996 the N & M Press produced a facsimile of the 1918 edition of this work.
For family (and other) historians, the records produced by government and the courts, and held by the Public Record Office, can provide a treasure trove of information.
Four titles are currently available covering the Army, Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and the Royal Air Force. Contents include: information on where to find service and casualty records, a brief outline of organisational structure and rank; resources available at the Imperial War Museum; list of useful addresses; and a select bibliography.
Discovering all about your family tree usually requires a fair amount of detective work - fascinating work at that.
Major General Orde Wingate was a maverick soldier whose life and achievements inspired loyalty and devotion in some, hostility in others.
SUAKIN, 1885: Being a Sketch of the Campaign of this year
Personal account by a staff officer who was there.
FROM THE BLACK MOUNTAIN TO WAZIRISTAN
Classic account of the Border Countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the north-west frontier province and of our military relations with them in the past.
ARMY of the SUTLEJ 1845-6 CASUALTY ROLL
The list of casualties have been compiled from the Sutlej Medal Rolls held at the India Office Library. The list is by regiments and gives the nature of the casualty, date and battle in which incurred: Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal or Sobraon. Those invalided home are also identified.
MAYO: MEDALS AND DECORATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY AND NAVY
This two volume set originally published in 1897, has over the years been the cornerstone of knowledge for every serious medal collector, researcher and writer.
Kaye & Malleson HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857-58: In 6 Volumes
Best edition of the standard work (with analytical index in Vol. VI).
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