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    WW1 Regimental War Tales By Mockler Ferryman

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    For sale is a WW1 Regimental War Tales By Mockler Ferryman. This is not a 1st edition but the 1942 reprint. This is in good condition and was owned by “Pte R Sims No14408049 Ox: and Bucks: Light Infantry”. With a crudely drawn in Oxford and Buckinghamshire light Infantry emblem inside the front cover. 

      An extract of the preface can be found below:    “The principal object of this book is to place before the soldiers of the OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKINGHAMSHIRE LIGHT INfaNTRY a war-time story of their Regiment, and to show them that for nearly a century and a half their ancestors of the 43rd and 52nd fought for their King, Queen, and Country as valiantly as their comrades of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry did subsequently, and as they themselves are actually doing at the present time.   The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry until quite recently consisted of two Regular battalions, one Special Reserve battalion, and two Territorial battalions. The Regular, or 1st and 2nd Battalions are the old 43rd and 52nd; the 3rd, or Special Reserve, Battalion was formerly designated the Oxfordshire Militia; while the Territorial Battalions are the old Oxford Volunteers, and the 1st Bucks Volunteers. Now there have been added several new battalions, whose deeds will doubtless prove them to be worthy of belonging to the Regiment. The 43rd Regiment was raised in 1741, and was at first numbered 54, though in 1748 (when the Army was reduced) it was re-numbered 43.   Curiously enough, the 52nd, which was raised in 1755, was also numbered 54, but only for a short time. In 1782 His Majesty King George III initiated the idea of attaching regiments to counties, and the 43rd was henceforward known as the MONMOUTHsHIRE Regiment, while the 52nd was at the same time affiliated with OXFORDSHIRE. For some few years after they were raised neither regiment saw active service, being employed on garrison duty in the United Kingdom and the Mediterranean. Then followed years of war in Canada, the West Indies, America, and India, succeeded by a short period of peace, devoted to that thorough training, under SiR JOHN MOORE at Shorn-cliffe, which resulted in producing in the 43rd, 52nd, and 95th Rifles what has been described as a perfect system of drill and discipline.”    This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.
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    Code

    15277 (MZ-44474)

    Period

    WW1

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