The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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... HUNDRED YEARS LATER The troops themselves on board were for the moment sufficiently thankful for calm waters and the embrace of the wooded hills of home . Not only had the passage from Gibraltar been a sore trial to the stomach , but ...
... HUNDRED YEARS LATER The troops themselves on board were for the moment sufficiently thankful for calm waters and the embrace of the wooded hills of home . Not only had the passage from Gibraltar been a sore trial to the stomach , but ...
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... hundred strong , and including several squadrons of horse . The position was unenviable . Colonel Bristow compressed his marchers into a tight column , with musketeers at the ready against attack from any quarter , and continued along ...
... hundred strong , and including several squadrons of horse . The position was unenviable . Colonel Bristow compressed his marchers into a tight column , with musketeers at the ready against attack from any quarter , and continued along ...
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... hundred enemy were reported in the village of Ollomilles , and the British commander sent six hundred of his British and Spanish troops to rout them out . In this party , the 11th were strongly represented ; and , when it came to the ...
... hundred enemy were reported in the village of Ollomilles , and the British commander sent six hundred of his British and Spanish troops to rout them out . In this party , the 11th were strongly represented ; and , when it came to the ...
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12th Devons 1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 2nd Devons action advance Agira Airborne ammunition anti-tank guns Armoured army arrived artillery assault attack Barracks battery battle bayonet beach Blerick bombs bridge bridgehead Brigade British Bulford Burma camp Captain capture casualties Chagford Chindwin Colonel column command Company Corps Crete D-Day defence Devons Devonshire Regiment Division Dorsets east enemy fighting fire flank force forward fought French front garrison German Gibraltar glider grenades Hamminkeln hill Horsa Houyet Imphal infantry invasion island Japanese Japs jungle killed L/Cpl landing Lieut Lieutenant Lt-Col Lt-Colonel machine-gun Major Malta Mandalay March miles Monywa morning mortar move night Normandy officers operation Operation Blackcock party patrol platoon position Private Rhine ridge rifle river road rôle round route Sergeant shells Sicily soldiers Tamu Tamu road tanks town tracks Tree Hill troops Ukhrul village wounded yards