The history of the 13th battery royal field artillery from 1759 to 1913 / Major H. Marriott Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, H. Marriott, Major, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artillery, Field and mountain.

Armed Forces--Artillery.

Armed Forces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Uckfield : The Naval & Military Press Ltd., [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the author says, this history, published a year before the outbreak of the Great War, has been written for the soldiers of the battery, past, present and future. It is written in the form of a yearly diary with the year in the left margin, opposite the text describing events of that year. Some entries are very thin, a couple of lines, but other years have a more detailed story to tell - 1808/09 Corunna, 1855 the Crimea, and 1899-1901 the S. African War where the years are divided into mon...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Frontispiece; Title Page; Body Matter; I: Early Years; II: Egypt; III: Corunna; IV: Vittoria to Waterloo; V: The Long Peace; VI: The Crimea; VII: The Mutiny and After; VIII: South African Campaign; Back Matter; Appendix A: Battery Movements and Stations; Appendix B: Battery Establishments; Appendix C: Pay of Various Ranks of 13th Battery R.F.A. from 1759 to 1913; Appendix D: Commanding Officers

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-69313-5

1-78149-139-9

OCLC:

772845621