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Coldstream
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Friday, 29 March 2013
British Army commitments, 1842
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In 1842 the United Service Magazine of London published a list of the Distribution and Stations of the British Army (available free as a Goo...
Monday, 16 May 2011
From Waterloo to Dorking - the military career of Pvt Jame Cutting, Part 3
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In the early years of the 19th century the British army could sit back and bask in the glory of Waterloo, so the mid 1850s and 60s came as...
James & Emma - the military career of Pvt James Cutting Part 4
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James Cutting joined the Coldstream Guards in Bury St Edmunds on the 16th of November 1864. It all seemed to start so well, despite difficu...
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Trouble & Strife - the military career of Pvt. James Cutting Part 2
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The Fenians were what we would now call a terrorist group, founded in the United States in 1858 with the aim of driving Ireland out of the...
Sunday, 8 May 2011
Suffolk Punch - the military career of Pvt James Cutting. Part 1
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We normally think of military history in terms of an event, a battle or campaign, and all the forces associated with it. But there is perhap...
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