Volume One Hundred and three (2025)
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Articles and Communications
Bandsmen of the Foot Guards, circa 1805 by John H. Rumsby (p.1)
Colonel Lord John Murray's Recruiting Instructions for the Additional Companies of the 42nd Highland Regiment, 1757 by Richard Loutzenheiser (p.3)
The Global Origins of the West India Regiments by Tim Lockley (p.7)
Lodestar III: Tracing a Great War Enigma by Robby Houben (p.24)
A"Natural Civilian" goes to War - The Second World War Memoir of Geoffrey Harvey - Part 2 by Caroline Jackson (ed.) (p.44)
An Officer of the 6th Dragoon Guards, c. 1820 by Andrew Cormack (p.69)
A Loyalist's Letters and Reports from Boston, 1775 by Ian F.W. Beckett (p.72)
Four Letters written from the Crimea by Lt. Harrington Trevelyan, 11th Hussars and his reminiscences in 1894 by Timothy Cooke (p.101)
Wyndham Lewis in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1916-1917: Part 1, Home Service by Jim Beach & Rod Rosenquist (p.118)
A National Service Memoir by Jeremy Harvey (p.133)
'Waste Not, want Not' - A Drummer's Mitre Cap of the Seven Years War by Andrew Cormack (p.161)
The Regiment of Colonel Godfrey Bosville, MP, 1643-1646 by Richard Dace (p.179)
The 5th Division at Salamanca: Greville's Report by Paul Thompson (p.189)
Wyndham Lewis in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 1916-1917: Part 2, Active Service by Jim Beach & Rod Rosenquist (p.203)
Defending the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street: The Organisation and Role of the Bank of England's Military Corps, 1790-1875 by Nicholas Harlow (p.247)
The Elizabethan Trained Bands in Essex by Elliot Jordan (p.270)
'A Screw Loose in the Medical Department of the 19th Regiment' - Surgeon Thomas Longmore and his Service in the Crimean War by Pete Starling (p.291)
The Firemen of the First Battle of Bullecourt: Tactics of Australian Machine Gun Companies in April 1917 by Brenton Brooks and Greg O'Reilly (p.302)
Notes and Queries
2091 Wearing of the St. Andrew's Cross, 1757 (p.53)
2092 Some Other Boer War Chaplains (p.54)
2093 The A.V.B. Norman Research Trust (p.152)
2094 Uniforms of the Camel Corps, 1884-1885 (p.152)
2095 Chaplains in South Africa, 1899-1902 (p.153)
2096 A Register of Memorials of the American Revolutionary War (p.153)
2097 Field Marshal Lord Ligonier's Letter Book (p.154)
2098 The Fighting Traverses (p.225)
2099 Uniforms of the Camel Corps - Reply to Query 2094 (p.225)
2100 The Reeve Letters from Boston (p.226)
2101 Society for Army Historical Research Research Grants (p.226)
2102 Recruiting Afro-Caribbeans in the Eighteenth Century (p.226)
2103 Bandsmen of the Foot Guards (p.227)
2104 A Question raised by Old Photographs (p.323)
2105 Recruiting Afro-Caribbeans in the Eighteenth Century - A Reponse (p.324)
2106 Recruiting for the French Army in London, 1733 (p.326)
Book Reviews
Royalist Newark, 1642-46: Sieges and Siege Works by Stuart B. Jennings (p.57)
Like Troops of Hungry Wolves. The Battle of Culloden, 16 April 1746 by Stuart Reid (p.58)
The Pattern: The 33rd Regiment and the British Infantry Experience during the American Revolution, 1770-1783 by Robbie MacNiven (p.59)
The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart: Soldier and Diplomat by Alan Ogden (p.61)
Beyond the Great Silence: The Legacy of Shell Shock in Britain and Germany 1918-1924 by Stefanie Linden (p.63)
The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia, 1965-1975 by Stephen Quick (p.64)
The New Model Army: Agent of Revolution by Ian Gentles (p.155)
A Fortified Sea: The Defence of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century by P.edro Luengo & Gene Allen Smith (p.157)
Field Marshal the Earl of Cavan. Soldier and Fox Hunter by Michael Senior (p.157)
Age of Emergency. Living with Violence at the end of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum (p.159)
Soldiers' Clothing of the Early 17th Century: Britain and Western Europe 1618-1660 by Laurence Spring (p.229)
Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth and the Last Knights in England by M. Cole (p.230)
Scotland's Contribution to Naval and Military Medicine and Surgery by I. Macintyre, H. Morris & A. Demetriades (eds) (p.232)
Harfleur to Hamburg: Five Centuries of English and British Violence in Europe by D.J.B. Trim & B. Simms (eds) (p.233)
Heart Like a Fakir, General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by C. Mason (p.234)
Sir P - A Hundred Years on by Dhananajaya Singh (p.236)
A Brilliant Little Victory: The 48th (South Midland) Division on the Western and Italian Fronts during the First World War by Derek A. Plews (p.237)
Approach to Battle: Training the Indian Army during the Second World War by A. Jeffreys (p.239)
Uncivil War. The British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975 by Huw Bennett (p.241)
The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution by Kevin J. Weddle (p.327)
So Just and Glorious a Cause by Robert Griffith (p.328)
HM's De Meuron Regiment: Swiss Mercenaries in the Service of the Crown, 1795-1816 by David C.J. Howell (p.330)
William Simpson's Afghanistan: Travels of a Special Artist and Antiquarian during the Second Afghan War, 1878-79 by Peter Harrington (p.332)
Ronald Fife's War Diaries 1915-1917 by Andrew Clive (p.333)
Modern land Warfare from Iraq to Ukraine by Leigh Neville (p.334)
The Collected Letters of Major Thomas Harvey, CVO, DSO by David & Kathleen Harvey (Eds) (p.336)
Tributes and Obituaries
John Harvey Rumsby 1949-2024 - A Tribute by Andrew Cormack (p.67)
Brian Bond - An Appreciation by Gary Sheffield (p.243)
John Paul Clow Laband 1947-2025 by Graham Dominy (p.337)
