HISTORY OF THE 13TH BATTERY, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, FROM 1759 TO 1913

A brief history of a field artillery battery that served in Egypt(1800), at Corunna, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. Battery movements, pay, establishments and sucession of battery OCs.

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 months. But with only 40-odd pages of narrative covering over 150 years there is not too much space for detail, but a great deal of attention is paid to dress details and to any changes; nor are equipment replacements and changes to organization and establishments overlooked.. There are four useful appendices: Battery movements and stations from 1795 to 1913; Battery establishments - officers, NCOs, men and animals from 1759 to 1913; Daily rate of pay of various ranks, majors down to drivers, from 1759 to 1913; succession of battery commanders from 1764 to 1912. These appendices make this little history a very valuable source

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Product Code:	5977
Author:	Major H. Marriott Smith
ISBN:	9781845740498
Format:	2005 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1913). SB. 55pp, one photo (frontispiece).
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