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Author Smith, H. Marriott

Title The History of the 13th Battery Royal Field Artillery from 1759 to 1913
Published Luton : Andrews UK, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (55 pages)
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
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 ..
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Subject Great Britain. Army -- Artillery. Field Battery, 13th -- History
HISTORY -- Military -- Biological & Chemical Warfare.
Armed Forces -- Artillery
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781781491393
1781491399
1283693135
9781283693134