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11th Hussars Soldiers: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler

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Description:Chapters: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Canon William Murrell Lummis, MC, (Coddenham, Suffolk, on 4 June 1886, died 2 November 1985, aged 99) was the son of an undertaker. He was first a professional soldier in the British Army; then later a Church of England clergyman. He is best known as a military historian, for the research he undertook on the Victoria Cross, the Charge of the Light Brigade and Rorke's Drift. William Lummis c.1904The oldest of seven children born to George Murrell Lummis (1860 1912) and Louisa Sparrow (1854 1933), on leaving school aged 14, Lummis worked as a Clerk in a Magistrates Clerk Office in his home town of Coddenham, before enlisting, aged 18, in the 11th Hussars as a trooper in 1904. In 1911 he was a Lance Sergeant and became responsible, among many other things, for editing the 11th Hussars regimental journal. At that time he met the survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade who had gathered for a reunion. In 1912 he endeavoured to create a complete and accurate roll of the men who had served in the 11th Hussars in the Crimean War. By the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, he was Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, the youngest in the British Army. He served on the Western Front throughout the War, taking part in the Retreat from Mons and seeing action in Flanders. He was commissioned in 1916 and transferred to his county regiment, the Suffolk Regiment, serving with the regiment's second battalion for the remainder of the war. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery on 2123 August 1918 during the Second Battle of the Somme. He commanded the battalion on 23 October 1918 at its last First World War action, the Battle of the Selle, when ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=554567We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 11th Hussars Soldiers: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler. To get started finding 11th Hussars Soldiers: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
24
Format
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Publisher
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Release
2010
ISBN
1158518544

11th Hussars Soldiers: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler

Books LLC
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Description: Chapters: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Canon William Murrell Lummis, MC, (Coddenham, Suffolk, on 4 June 1886, died 2 November 1985, aged 99) was the son of an undertaker. He was first a professional soldier in the British Army; then later a Church of England clergyman. He is best known as a military historian, for the research he undertook on the Victoria Cross, the Charge of the Light Brigade and Rorke's Drift. William Lummis c.1904The oldest of seven children born to George Murrell Lummis (1860 1912) and Louisa Sparrow (1854 1933), on leaving school aged 14, Lummis worked as a Clerk in a Magistrates Clerk Office in his home town of Coddenham, before enlisting, aged 18, in the 11th Hussars as a trooper in 1904. In 1911 he was a Lance Sergeant and became responsible, among many other things, for editing the 11th Hussars regimental journal. At that time he met the survivors of the Charge of the Light Brigade who had gathered for a reunion. In 1912 he endeavoured to create a complete and accurate roll of the men who had served in the 11th Hussars in the Crimean War. By the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, he was Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant, the youngest in the British Army. He served on the Western Front throughout the War, taking part in the Retreat from Mons and seeing action in Flanders. He was commissioned in 1916 and transferred to his county regiment, the Suffolk Regiment, serving with the regiment's second battalion for the remainder of the war. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery on 2123 August 1918 during the Second Battle of the Somme. He commanded the battalion on 23 October 1918 at its last First World War action, the Battle of the Selle, when ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=554567We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 11th Hussars Soldiers: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler. To get started finding 11th Hussars Soldiers: William Lummis, Horace Robert Martineau, Patrick Fowler, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
24
Format
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Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158518544

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