THE BLOODY ELEVENTH HISTORY OF THE DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT VOLUME II 1815-1914
Written by W.J.P. Aggett
Published by The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment
in 1994
ISBN: 0951265512
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- MILITARY
- HISTORY
- REGIMENTAL HISTORY (UK)
- ARMY
- INFANTRY
THE BLOODY ELEVENTH HISTORY OF THE DEVONSHIRE REGIMENT VOLUME II 1815-1914
Written by W.J.P. Aggett.
Stock no. 2137407
1st.
1994.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Red cloth boards, green and gilt title block to spine. 518 pages. B/w and colour photos, diagrams and maps. ISBN: 0951265512.
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