Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• List of Maps
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• CHAPTER
• One The Naming of the Parts.
• Two 1815-1828: Ireland: Portugal. With an account of Colquhoun Grant 'The Respectable Spy'
• Three 1828-1840: The Ionian Islands:Canada
• Four 1840-1845: Devon in mid-Century; General Sir Rufane Donkin. New Colours 1841. Dublin. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Keene Bloomfield.
• Five 1845-1857: Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania), New South Wales
• Six 1858: Formation of the Second Battalion. Birth of the 'Volunteer Movement'. The Militia in mid-century. The Devonshire Yeomanry.
• Seven 1860-1871: The 1st Battalion. The Curragh. Major-General Bloomfield. The first posting to India
• 1860-1870: The 2nd Battalion. South Africa. Hong Kong (Japan). South Africa
• Eight 1870. The Cardwell Reforms: The Short Service Engagement.
• 1870-1876: The 1st Battalion, Return from India. 'Snooker'
• 1870-1879: The 2nd Battalion. At the Curragh. The Autumn manoeuvres on Dartmoor: Stationed at Raglan Barracks, Plymouth. Posted to India.
• Nine 1877-1881: The 1st Battalion in UK
• 1880: The 2nd Battalion: Afghanistan. The Second Afghan War.
• Ten 1881: Renaming the Parts: 'The Territorial Regiment': The Line Regiment, the Militia and the Volunteers.
• Eleven 1880-1890: The 1st Battalion: 'The County Regiment', Colchester, Ireland, Egypt
• The 2nd Battalion: India 'the Fall of Muttra'
• Twelve 1890-1892: The 2nd Devons in Burma. The Columns: Eastern Kachin, Hanton, Momeik, Mogaung, The Wuntho Expedition. Irrawaddy Column
• Thirteen 1890-1899: The 1st Devons: Egypt and India
• The 2nd Devons: India to UK via Egypt
• 1895 Ashanti
• The Volunteer Battalions: The Bedford Circus Drill Hall, visit of the Duke of Cambridge. John Bucknill knighted
• Fourteen The North West Frontier
• 1895: Death of Capt. A.L.Peebles
• 1897: 1st Devons join Tirah Field Force. The Tirah Campaign
• Fifteen The Anglo-Boer War: Background
• September 1899: The 1st and 2nd Devons mobilise
• October-23 December 1899: The 1st at Elandslaagte and Lombard's Kop
• Withdrawal to Ladysmith. The Siege
• The 2nd at Colenso. 'The Black Week' 16th December 1899 to 27th February 1900: the 1st at Wagon Hill
• The 2nd in attempts to relieve Ladysmith and a temporary armistice
• 20th January to 1st March 1900: the Relief of Ladysmith
• Sixteen February 1900 to June 1902
• 'The Black Week' and the Empire's reply: the Devons at Ladysmith
• The volunteer Companies arrive
• 1st Devons, the advance north
• 2nd Devons, a general advance
• 1st Devons, attack on Piet Schwartz's Laager
• 2nd Devons at Standerton. Death of Queen Victoria. Castrol
• The Volunteer Companies repatriated
• 1st Devons sail for India
• 2nd Devons: the end of the Anglo-boer War
• Seventeen 1902-1908: 1st Devons, India. 'The Kitchener Test'
• 2nd Devons: South Africa
• 1908: The Haldane Reforms: The Volunteer Battalions and the Territorial Force
• 1908-1909: 2nd Devons in Malta and Crete
• 1909-1914: 1st Devons in Uk. Labour unrest
• 2nd Devons in Malta
• The birth of the Old Comrades Association
• The First World War - 'the Great War' begins
• Eighteen 1914: War is declared and the Regiment mobilizes
• 1st Devons: Landing in France. The Marne. Devons and the Dorsets at Pont Fixe. Givenchy-Festubert line. 2nd Devons: in France. Neurve Eglise.
• Christmas in Flanders