"Walcheren, Spain, America & Waterloo" Topic
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Tango01 | 11 Apr 2016 4:02 p.m. PST |
Memoir of Captain Peter Bowlby 4th Foot 1791-1877 "The 4th (King�s Own) Foot has to date no known memoir of a soldier from its ranks during the Napoleonic wars excepting the biographical and understandably biased book by Archie Hunter based on the few short letters of Lt. Colonel Charles Bevan, which seeks to absolve him, slightly unconvincingly, of any blame for the Almeida debacle. Because of this the service of the 4th generally goes unrecognised. This is grossly unjust, with the regiment being involved at Copenhagen, Walcheren, the Corunna campaign, the Peninsular War from Badajoz to the end of the war, the 1814 campaign in America and the Waterloo Campaign. Luckily, we finally have a fine memoir from the regiment, from a copy which is held at the National Army Museum, reference 2002-02-729 and I am very grateful for their permission and the Right Reverend Ronald Bowlby to transcribe and publish it…" See here link Amicalement Armand |
IronDuke596 | 12 Apr 2016 10:16 a.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 12 Apr 2016 11:39 a.m. PST |
A votre service mon ami!. (smile) Amicalement Armand |
PhilinYuma | 18 Apr 2016 3:43 a.m. PST |
It looks as thouigh this book, due out last year, was never published. I dropped Gareth Glover a note a fgew days ago, so maybe he can enlighten us. Cheers, Phil |
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