CONTENTS OF VOLUME EIGHTY-FOUR FOR 2006
ARTICLES AND COMMUNICATIONS
Architect of Victory: The reforms of the Duke of York. By
John Peatty
Binoculars and the National Service League. By William Reid
Brains or Polo? Equestrian Sport, Army Reform and the
Gentlemanly Officer Tradition, 1900-1914. By Eliza Riedi
Defending the Hampshire Coast and the Isle of Wight in the
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I. By Richard Ferguson and Mark Brayshay
Field Marshal Wade and the Forty-Five. By Jonathan Oates
Frederick Turner: An Artillery Officer in Flanders,
1918-19. By Jonathan Spain
Freemasonry in the Fencible Regiments. By James W.
Reddyhoff
Gone Fishing? Sir John French’s Meeting with General
Lanzerac, 17 August 1914. By William J. Philpott
Hors de Combat? The Management, Mismanagement and Mutilation of the War Office Archive. By Matthew Seligmann
Jean Louis Ligonier at the Battle of Lauffeldt, 1747. By
Andrew Cormack
Orde Wingate in the ‘Phoney War’ and After, 1939-1940.
By Simon Anglim
Slogging Across the Seldt: British Volunteers and the
Guerrilla Phase of the South African War, 1899-1902. By Stephen M. Miller
Some Comments on the Traditional Historiography of the
Black Watch, 1725-1815. By Ian Davidson
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Soldier? Crime and Punishment in
the Army of India, 1860-1913. By Kaushik Roy
‘Supermen and Superwomen’: The Army pay services and
the First World War, 1914-1920. By John Black
Suicide in the British Army, c.1815 to c.1860. By John
H. Rumsby
The Political and Religious Significance of the
British/Irish Militias Interchange, 1811-1816. By V. J. L. Fontana
The Regimental System: One Historian’s Perspective (Templer
Medal Essay). By David French
The Uniforms of Officers of Independent Companies in the
Later Nineteenth Century. By Andrew Cormack
Thomas Bidgood, ‘Sons of the Brave’ and Philip R.
Morris. By A. W. Cockerill and Peter Goble
Towards Dettingen: The Conveyancing of the British Army to
Flanders in 1742. By David Syrett
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
A Belt Plate of the Royal British Artillery.
A De Lancey Mystery (1)
Army Wills
British Cavalry Swords
Censorship of Sir John Fortescue
Charles Smoker
Cloathing Book
Correction to Review of Loyalty
and Honour
General Palit Military Studies Trust
George Sainsbury and the Land Transport Corps
Greatest British Generals (1)
Greatest British Generals (2)
John Walford, 28th
Regiment
Last Post
Mourning Sword
9th Regiment
of Foot
Pan Fuk’s Law:
The defence Forces of Hong Kong from 1841 to 1945
Pieces of Evidence
Concerning the Origin and Early Years of the Black Watch (1)
Pieces of Evidence
Concerning the Origin and Early Years of the Black Watch (2)
Pieces of Evidence
Concerning the Origin and Early Years of the Black Watch (3)
Rixon Bucknall
Royal Hibernian
Military School
Royal Waggon Trains
2nd Brigade Royal
Artillery
2nd Brigade Royal
Artillery (1)
Silver Centre Piece
Sleeving the Halifax Noon-Day Gun
Stalky
10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
The A. V. B. Norman Research Trust
The British Empire Hospitality Bureau
The First Prototype SAS Operations
The Prince of Wales’s Fencibles
The Regiments Depart
The 28th Division and Salonika
The Wellington Congress
Victoria Cross
Was the British Army Lagging Technically in 1914?
REVIEWS
A Bearskin’s
Crimea: Colonel Henry Percy VC and His Brother Officers. By Algernon Percy ?????
A British Soldier’s
Story: Roger Lamb’s Narrative of the American Revolution. By Don Hagist
A Pretty Rough Do
Altogether: The Fifth Fusiliers in Korea, 1950-1. By Anthony Perkins (ed.)
A Surgical Artist at War: The paintings and Sketches of Sir Charles Bell, 1809-1815. By M. K. H. Crumplin and P. Starling
Agincourt: A New
History. By Anne Curry
Biographical
Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War. By Nick Smart
‘Book Club: Flashman’ (Radio 4). By Ian Beckett
Britain’s Last
Tommies: Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914-1918 War in their own Words.
By Richard van Emden
British Military
Policy in India, 1900-1947: Colonial Constraints and Declining Power. By
Anirudh Deshpande
Cavalier Generals:
King Charles I and His Commanders in the English Civil War.
By John Barratt
Crossing the Buffalo: The Zulu War of 1879.
By Adrian Greaves ????
Expedition from Uganda to Abyssinia (1898): The Diary of
Lieutenant R. G. T. Bright with Annotations and Introductory Text.
By Frederick A. Sharf (ed.)
Fortress Builder: Bernard de Gomme, Charles II’s
Military Engineer. By Andrew
Sunders
God and the British Soldier: Religion and the British
Army in the First and Second World Wars. By Michael Snape
Haig’s Generals.
By Ian Beckett (ed.)
Last Post: The Final Word from our First World War
Soldiers. Max Arthur
‘Lawrence: The
Life and Legend’ (Exhibition, IWM). By Jeremy Wilson
Loos: The Unwanted Battle. By Gordon Corrigan
Marlborough: John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Hero
of Blenheim. By John Hussey
Marlborough’s Wars: Eyewitness Accounts, 1702-1713.
By James Falkner
Military Identities: The Regimental System, the British
Army and the British People, c.1870-2000. By David French
Murder, Mutiny and the Military: British Court martial
Cases, 1940-1966. By Gerry R. Rubin
No Better Death: The Great War Diaries and Letters of
William G. Malone. By John Crawford
(ed.)
‘Online Somme
Exhibition’ (IWM). By Elizabeth Greenhalgh
Paras: The Birth of British Airborne Forces from
Churchill’s Raiders to the 1st Parachute Brigade. By William F. Buckingham
Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745
and the British Empire. By Geoffrey
Plank
Sharpshooters in the Crimea: The Letters of captain
Goodlake VC. By Michael Springman
(ed.)
Slim, Master of War: Burma and the Rebirth of Modern
Warfare. By Robert Lyman
The Battle for Quebec, 1759. By Matthew C. Ward
The Battles of the British Expeditionary Forces,
1914-15: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. By Fred R. van Hartesveldt
The British Army of August 1914: An Illustrated
Directory. By Ray Westlake
The British Volunteer Movement, 1794-1814.
By Austin Gee
The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War.
By David Silbey
The Diary of a Forgotten Battalion: The Household
battalion in the First World War, 1916-18. By G. W. Harvey
The First Battle of Newbury. By John Newbury
The German Offensive of March 1918.
By Martin Kitchen
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914: The Men who went
to War. By Malcolm Brown
The Lion and the Poppy: British Veterans, Politics and
Society, 1921-1939. By Niall Barr
The National Army Museum Book of Wellington’s Armies:
Britain’s Campaigns in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. By Andrew Uffindell
‘The Patriot’
(Film, 2000). By Matthew Spring
‘The Real
Dad’s Army’ (C4). By Ian Beckett
The Redcoat and Religion: The Forgotten History of the
British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War.
By Michael Snape
The 2nd Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War.
By James Taylor
‘The Somme’
(Channel 4). By Ian F. W. Beckett
The Somme.
By Peter Hart
The Somme.
By Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson
The Thin Red Line: An Eyewitness History of the Crimean
War. By Julian Spilsbury
The Thin Red Line: Empire and Visions of Scotland.
By Allan Carswell
The Ultimate Spectacle: A Visual History of the Crimean
War. By Ulrich Keller
The Victorian Soldier in Africa.
By Edward Spiers
Under the Devil’s Eye: Britain’s Forgotten Army at
Salonika, 1915-1918. By Alan
Wakefield and Simon Moody
War, Society and Enlightenment: The Works of General
Lloyd. By Patrick J. Speelman
Wellington’s Lieutenant and Napoleon’s Gaoler.
By Gareth Glover
Wellington’s Mongrel Regiment: A History of the
Chasseurs Britanniques Regiment, 1801-1814.
By Alistair Nichols
Wellington’s Navy: Sea Power and the Peninsular War,
1807-1814. By Christopher Hall
Ypres: The First Battle, 1914. By Ian Beckett
OTHER
Major Accessions to Repositories in 2004 Relating to
Military History
‘Shared
Experience: Art and War’ (Imperial War Museum). By Dan Todman
The Black Watch
Regimental Museum. By Ian Davidson
The Royal
Armouries at Leeds. By John Childs
University Doctoral Theses and Research Theses on British
Military History. By Ian Beckett