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Issue 80 - March 1995 The Bands of the Volunteers (by George Robinson) A 17th Lancer in the American Civil War: Thomas Morley (by James Falkner) The Value of India: Colonel Chesney's View, 1878 (by Roger T. Stearn) Queen Victoria's Scarf (by Nicholas Riall) The Fight at the South Rand Mine, December 26th 1900, Eastern Transvaal (by Meurig G.M. Jones) "In Front of the Cinematograph"- an Anecdote from the Anglo-Boer War (by Gilles Teulié) Some Unfamiliar Regiments (by Michael Barthorp)   Issue 79 - December 1994 Addiscombe: the East India Company's Military Seminary (by Roger T. Stearn) Addiscombe Today: some pictures (by Andrew J. Lamond) Honourable East India Company & Indian Army Victoria Crosses, pt. 2 (by Chris Kempton) Best Turned Out Soldier (by J.C. Kenworthy) The Somerset Light Infantry Drum (by J.C. Kenworthy) On the Fringe's of Buller's Army (by Marc Coghlan) "The Four Feathers" (by Michael Barthorp) "The Jolly Die-Hards" - a Regimental Song of the 57th (by T.L. Rose) Geoffrey Powell's Buller: a review article (by Keith Surridge)    Issue 78 - September 1994 Honourable East India Company & Indian Army Victoria Crosses (by Chris Kempton) A Soldier of the 41st. Major General Pat Cleburne CSA (by James Falkner) A Voice from Rorke's Drift (by Ian Knight) "From our Special Artist" (by Michael Barthorp) Playing the Game (by Michael Barthorp) General Yule's Retreat from Dundee (22nd to 26th October 1899) (by R.W.F. Droogleever) The Diehard Company (by T.L. Rose) Gunga Din (by George Robinson)    Issue 77 - June 1994 The Indian Mutiny Letters of Ensign Wingfield (by Chris Kempton) Isandlwana to Mome: Zulu Experience of Overt Resistance to Colonial Rule (by P.S. Thompson) Look Before You Leap (by Sgt. William Holmes) Untitled Verse (by Sgt. William Holmes) "Dearest Mammy": Letters Home from the Anadmans and Burma, 1887-1890 (by Ann Clayton)    Issue 76 - March 1994 The Strange Case of the Official Missing History (by Brian Robson) The Indian Expeditionary Force on Malta and Cyprus, 1878 (by Ian F.W. Beckett) Indian Weapons (by Ralph Moore-Morris) Henry Martens and the 31st Regiment (by Michael Barthorp) Decorations, Campaign, Commemorative and other Medals awarded to Indian Troops 1837-1914 (by Chris Kempton) The Wardens of the Marches: or Guardians of the Frontier (by George H. Dalton) "Wee Willie Winkie": Hollywood's Version of a Highland Regiment on the North West Frontier (by George Robinson)    Issue 75 - December 1993 Buller at Suakin in 1884 (by Brian Robson) A Present from the Queen (by Gilles Teulié) "As Good as a Medal". The Queen's Chocolate: some answered questions (by Stephen Dance) "Shirt-sleeve order" (by Michael Barthorp)            Issue 72 - March 1993 "The Adjutant Inspecting the Guard": SOTQ's December Cover (by George Dibley) The 24th's Other Battle (by Michael Barthorp) Colonel Thomas Seaton's Account of the Mutiny of the 60th Native Infantry, 1857 (by R.W.F. Droogleever) The Highland Light Infantry at Tel-el-Kebir (by Meurig G.M. Jones) The Gordons Return to Edinburgh (by George Robinson) Family Casualties in the Anglo-Boer War (by Meurig G.M. Jones) Restoration of the Anglo-Boer War Memorial, the Haymarket, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (by Stephen Dance) William le Queux in D.N.B. 'Missing Persons' (by Roger T. Stearn)    Issue 71 - December 1992 The Santal Rebellion (by George Robinson) Rorke's Drift Veteran's Last Resting Place and Memorial (by Ian W. Woodson) From Soldier to Chief constable: the Story of Richard Charles Alexander (by J.C. Kenworthy) Army Reform and the Egyptian War (by Michael Barthorp) Visserkraal and Modderfontein (by Robin Droogleever) Breaker Morant and French Public Opinion (by Gilles Teulié) "How Armies Fight", or More Musings on Future War (by T.L. Rose)