Steady the Buffs!: A Regiment, a Region, and the Great War

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Some societies use Oxford Academic personal accounts to provide access to their members. See below. Bibliography for Introduction to Military History (Part1)". University of Kent . Retrieved 6 May 2016. Peace talks were in process during 1607 and 1608 but during that time Sir Francis Vere died on 28th Aug 1608 and was succeeded in his command by his brother Sir Horace who later became Lord Vere of Tilbury. The articles for a 12 year truce were ratified on 25th July 1609. The four English regiments in the service of the States at this time were commanded by Colonels Craven, Herbert, Goring and Cromwell. In May 1644 they assembled at Voorn for an expedition into Flanders. The Prince of Orange had chosen Sas-van-Ghent as the next town to besiege. The Spanish garrison under Don Andrea de Parado put up a resolute defence while another Spanish force attempted to relieve them. But the relief failed and the town surrendered after 6 weeks. The Prince occupied the town and garrisoned it with 19 companies of English troops. This was followed, in 1645 by a siege of Hulst which ended on 4th Nov.

An angler named Samuel Harwood used it in his “Thames Reminiscences,” which appeared in an April 1886 issue of Fishing, a journal published in London: Robert Sidney died in 1668 and was replaced by another ex-Dutch service officer, Sir Walter Vane, who had recently held a commission in a guards regiment. The regiment was not stationed in one place but distributed by company in various locations: These men were not of high quality and during a period of 7 months in that year there were 113 court marshals with sentences amounting to 7,000 lashes given out. But in 1836 an inspection reported that the Buffs were 'in a most excellent state of discipline'. Churchill, Winston L. Spencer (1898). The Story of the Malakand Field Force: an episode of frontier war, CHAPTER XII: AT INAYAT KILA. London, UK: Longmans, Green.The writer then goes on to add: “ ‘Steady, The Buffs,’ a not unfamiliar caution to many an English soldier.” Bernard George Ellis was awarded the Albert Medal in 1918. This was transferred to a George Cross in 1971. [82] Boxer, CR (1969). "Some Second Thoughts on the Third Anglo-Dutch War, 1672–1674". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 19: 88–90. doi: 10.2307/3678740. JSTOR 3678740. S2CID 159934682.

G.O. 41/1881 1 May 1881 amended by G.O.70/1881 1 July 1881. "X. The facings, and the Officers lace will be the same for all regiments belonging to the same Country (Royal and Rifle Regiments excepted), and will as follows: English Regiments: Facings – White, Pattern of Lace – Rose" The official date of the raising of the Holland Regiment for His Majesty's service was the 31st May 1665 the day of the Colonel's commission but the other officers received their commissions 3 weeks later on 23rd June. These 21 officers included Major Alexander Bruce who was the only officer of the Scots regiments to refuse the oath of allegiance to the Netherlands. The establishment was fixed at 6 companies of 106 NCOs and men each. The field officers acted as captains to the first 3 companies so that, as an example of the organisation the 1st Company had Colonel Sidney as captain, a lieutenant, an ensign, 2 sergeants, 3 corporals, one drummer and 100 private soldiers.

A waste of time? Oh, I beg to differ. Searching through reference books may not produce the answer to your particular question, but one almost always learns something in the process, even if it’s only the specific gravity of tuna salad or how to hypnotize a wildebeest. And you never know when you may need to know how to tie a half-over whiptailed hitch knot. Granted, that’s not very likely since I just made that up and can barely tie my own shoes. But I do know how to start a stalled car using only a credit card and a cell phone. The Dutch authorities decided to honourably discharge the English and Scots troops serving in the regiments and replace them with Netherlanders. Those Englishmen and Scotsmen who were prepared to swear the oath of allegiance to The Dutch republic would be re-admitted into the regiments. The discharged officers and men were given no assistance from the English government for their repatriation, so the English envoy Sir George Downing paid for their passage to England and gave them letters of recommendation. We found an example in White City (2007), a memoir by the British writer Donald James Wheal of his childhood in World War II-era London. While the 2nd Buffs were in South Africa, the 1st Battalion remained in India but were sent to Aden in October 1903 where they made some fatiguing marches deep into the Protectorate to pursue rebellious tribesmen. They maintained a detachment of 2 companies at Dhala, a place with which the Buffs became acquainted again in 1958. They returned to England in Nov 1904 and met up with the second battalion at Dover. In 1906 they were granted the honour of having the HM King Frederik VIII of Denmark as their Colonel-in-Chief. From 1910 to 1914 they were in Ireland, first Dublin and then Fermoy where there was some trouble with Irish Republicans. Other than a brief mention here or there on an Internet discussion group, sightings of this expression are rare.

Among the soldiers in the 10th Battalion, one soldier showed bravery in the Battle of Épehy on 18 September 1918. This was Private Percy James Fellows, a Lewis gunner who was mortally wounded while facing the enemy. He was serving with the 230th Brigade of the 74th (Yeomanry) Division. He died of wounds suffered during the Final Advance in Artois on 13 October 1918. [81] Burnham, Robert; McGuigan, Ron (2010). The British Army against Napoleon. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline Books. p.123. ISBN 978-1-84832-562-3.He turned off to the left, and I followed him as well as I could. Squish—squash! This was a sort of exercise in which I did not excel. Oh, why had I not brought my goloshes? But steady, the Buffs, what had become of my leg! Down a drain, or something, by all that was ludricrous. I pulled it out as fast as I could, but only to find I was minus a shoe.” In 1961, the regiment was amalgamated with the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment to form the Queen's Own Buffs, The Royal Kent Regiment, which was later merged, on 31 December 1966, with the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) to form the Queen's Regiment. This, in turn, was amalgamated with the Royal Hampshire Regiment, in September 1992, to create the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires). [65] Regimental museum [ edit ]