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Issue 120 - March 2005 The 150th Anniversary of Mardan Fort, Home of the Corps of Guides (by Selwyn Hodson-Pressinger) The Indian Mutiny: Letters from the Ranks (by Ken Ray) Further Aspects of the Indian Mutiny - Facts Versus Fiction: MacDowell, Cave-Browne, Leckey and Coghill (by David S. Wells) Queen Victoria at Chatham 1855 (by Chris Kempton) Victoria's Army: a Brief Overview of Army Organisation - Shuffling the Pack (by Jim O'Brien) Vignettes of Victorian Generals: General Sir Bindon Blood (by Harold E. Raugh, Jr) A Great Opportunity: Military and Naval Subjects in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (by Roger T. Stearn)    Issue 119 - December 2004 Francis Cornwallis Maude V.C. (by Roger Stearn) Camp Comforts: a Short Introduction to Military Campaign Furniture of the 19th Century (by Ian Jopson) South African Constabulary: Leaves from the Diary of a Policeman (by G.H.E. Barry) Vignette's of Victorian Generals: Lieutenant General Sir George Cathcart (by Harold E. Raugh, Jr.) Victoria's Inheritance: a Brief Overview of Army Organisation (by Jim O'Brien) New Books on the Anglo-Zulu War (by Ian Knight)    Issue 118 - September 2004 The Crimean War: Letters from the Ranks (by Ken Ray) A Question of Time (by Keith I. Smith) The Hazards of Primary Sources (by Keith I. Smith) The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders - some pictures The Zulu and the Horse (by Keith I. Smith) The 2nd Afghan War: Sherpur, October 1879 - August 1880 (by Dorothy Anderson) Ladies in Uniform (by Dan Allen)    Issue 117 - June 2004 Anti-Piracy Operations in the Straits of Malacca, 1835-40 (by N.C. Hayes) "Dust-coloured/ mud-colour": First Introduction of Khaki (Drab) 1848-49 (by Selwyn Hodson-Pressinger) Kinsmen in the Crimean War: the Family of the 1st Early Cornwallis (by Mike Hinton) The Medals of 3651 Private Luke Hannah, 71st Highland Light Infantry (by Noel Fallows) An Ally in the Press: Archibald Forbes (by David Buttery) 15th Ludhiana Sikhs (by Chris Kempton) The Anglo-Zulu War: the Intelligence War (by Keith I. Smith) Vignette's of Victoria's Generals: General Sir Archibald Alison (by Harold E. Raugh, Jr)   Issue 116 - March 2004 The French Advance in the Western Sudan 1880-94 (by Edwin Herbert) The British South Africa Company's Unusual Screw Gun (by Ian Cross) 17th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers (pictures from the Scarlet Gunner Collection) Militiamen in the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (by Jim O'Brien) The Hodson's Horse Memorial and Major W.S.R. Hodson (by Selwyn Hodson-Pressinger) The Boys in the Band (by Keith I. Smith) "Leg-Dress" (by David Murray)   Issue 115 - December 2003 William Y. Carman FSA FRHistS (by Keith I. Smith) Rohtak 1857 (by Selwyn Hodson-Pressinger) Hunting as Training for War (by David Buttery) Tales from the Tent Club (by David Buttery) Two Biographies: Charles Fitzclarence and Francis Marindin (by James W. Bancroft) Jack Ashore: Naval Brigades and Imperial War (by Louis Ackroyd) Shorts KD: the Context of a Military Garment (by Roger T. Stearn) Boer War Field Orders (by Dan Allen)    Issue 114 - September 2003 Viscount Canning gets news of the Battle of the Alma from the Duke of Newcastle and Viscount Burghersh (by Mike Hinton) The Several Captains Barton (by Keith I. Smith) The Benin Expedition (by Louis Ackroyd) On Commando with the Boers - then and now (by Chris Tapster) The Battle of Colenso and the Demise of Sir Redvers Buller (by S.A. Watt) Margaret Kirwin - a Woman of the Regiment (by Roger Chapman)    Issue 113 - June 2003 The Experience of the British Hostages (by David Buttery) The Trials of Colonel Shelton (by David Buttery) The Last Visitor to Kafiristan: George Scott Robinson, 1890-91 (by Dorothy Anderson) The Siege of Chitral 1896 (by Rob Johnson) The Siege of Malakand, 26th - 31st July 1897 (by Rob Johnson)    Issue 112 - March 2003 The Second Anglo-Boer War: Getting There (by Jim O'Brien) The Shropshire Rifle Volunteers: a Brief Introduction (by Robert Eales) Sir Francis Vane, 5th Baronet of Hutton (by Roger T. Stearn) Footnote to a Tragedy: the Life and Times of Colonel Henry Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (1831-1906) (by Noel Fallows)   Issue 111 - December 2002 The Demise of Duelling in the Victorian Army (by David Buttery) 7th Regiment (National Guard) and Queen's Westminster Rifles (by Selwyn Hodson-Pressinger) Gardening and the British Army in India (by Charles Carlton) Maps and Decisions: Buller South and North of the Tugela (by Martin Marix Evans) The Defences of South-East Norway (by Ian Stevenson)