Syllabus for the training of Category “A” recruits over the age of 18 years and 8 months, and of recruits of senior Training Reserve and Reserve Garrison Battalions Defined in Appendix IV of Army Council…
A sturdy race of men: 149 Brigade – a history of the Northumberland Fusiliers Territorial Battalions in the Great War by Alan Isaac Grint published by Pen & Sword Military in 2018 Hardback ISBN 978…
This article is based on a tragic incident mentioned by James Edmund Henderson Neville, then a junior officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was aged 19 at the…
What are these records? The casualty returns from units in the field were compiled into lists that were produced by the War Office and reproduced in many newspapers. They include the names of men killed,…
“Soldiers Died in the Great War” is a list of soldiers who lost their lives, compiled into a 1921 HMSO publication. The information was based on regimental records. It was originally published in a large…
A Lancashire Fusilier’s First World War by Norman Hall, edited by his granddaughter published by P3 Publications in 2020 paperback ISBN 978 0 9934889 2 4 344 pages including endnotes and index. Illustrated. This is…
The Special Reserve was formed as part of the Haldane reforms of the army in 1908 as a way of building up a pool of trained men who could be mobilised in the event of…