The British Army is the land warfare branch of the British Armed Forces. The English Army was founded in 1660, was succeeded in 1707 by the new British Army,[note 2] incorporating the existing Scottish regiments. It was administered by the War Office fro
Following the breakout of World War I, many British Assassins such as Sam Crowder and an Assassin medic enlisted in the army. On the Christmas truce of 1914, the Assassin medic treated wounded British soldiers while German artillery hit the British trenches. As the British and German troops ...
The Indian Army comprised the three armies of the Presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal. The Bengal Army, the largest, supplied many of the units for service on the North-West Frontier. The senior regimental officers were British. Soldiers were recruited from across the Indian sub-continent,...
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In addition, the Turks and the Hispanic US Army prisoners discovered marijuana plants growing wild on the mountainsides when out on wood-foraging expeditions, and at least some of the British took up the habit of smoking the dried leaves. This was frowned on by some of the camp staff, but...
Mike Chappell comes from an Aldershot family with British Army connections stretching back several generations. He enlisted as a teenage private in the Royal Hampshire Regiment in 1952. Over the next 22 years of infantry soldiering, many of them spent with the Gloucester Regiment, he held every ...
Surplus Army and Air Force camps were used for both classrooms and accommodation. Fifteen complete camps were taken over by the University in the course of the 1945–46 session alone, with a sixteenth camp situated on Little Mountain in Vancouver, converted into suites for married students. Most...