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Issue 100 - March 2000 The Origins of the Society (by Ian Knight) Personality and the Victorian Army: Some Reflections (by Ian F.W. Beckett) Recording Sapper Gallantry (by Michael Barthorp) 1877 Infantry Signals (by Graham Gillmore) The 'Wretched' Campaign of J.C. Russell, 12th Lancers: Zululand 1879 (by Ian Castle) The Gloucestershire Royal Engineers (Volunteers) 1860 - 1918 (by Mick Kippin) British Anglo-Boer War propaganda in Harmsworth's With the Flag to Pretoria and After Pretoria (by Gilles Teulié) Captain Adrian Jones MVO MRCVS FRBS, 1845 - 1938 (by Selwyn Hodson-Pressinger)   Issue 99 - December 1999 2nd Anglo-Boer War Centenary Issue Some Reminiscences of Pte. 540 A.E. Stenner C.I.V. (by Ross Stenner) The Mounted Infantry (by Michael Barthorp) Notes on Boer Uniforms (by A.D. Jones) The Volunteer Service Companies (by Will Bennett) Cuttings from the Melbourne Argus The Royal Navy and the Boer War, an Overview (by Peter Singlehurst) The 2nd Battle of Talana, 1999 De Wet Memorial (by R.E. Rothrock) A Footnote to History - the Capture of De Wet (by Peter Apsey) The Death of Sidney Ernest Vosper   Issue 98 - September 1999 The 74th (Highlanders) in the Kroomie Range: 8th September 1851 (by Ian Cross) Khaki Uniform's First Introduction (1848) and Hodson's Memorial (by Selwyn )Hodson-Pressinger 'Russian and England Face to Face in Asia': the Pendjeh Incident of 1885 (by R.A. Johnson) The Boer War, 1899-1902, remembered in Nottinghamshire (by Louis Ackroyd) Causes of the Boer War: a Naval 'Window of Opportunity'? (by Roger T. Stearn)    Issue 97 - June 1999 Why was the North-West frontier of India the scene of so much conflict in the period 1849-1901? (by R.A. Johnson ) The Banda and Kirwi prize money (by Brian Robson) Richard Caton Woodville, 1856-1927 (by Roger T. Stearn) Guardsman & Intelligencer: Lord Edward Gleichen (by Michael Barthorp) The Battle at Klip Drift (by Keith Cakebread)   Issue 96 - March 1999 The Left-Arm Salute: a comment (by Colin Robins) Congreve the Rocket Man: a Flawed Man or a Flawed Age? (by Roger S. Harris) 'As if Hell's Gulph was Opened': the Letters of Robert McDonnell, a Volunteer Surgeon in the Crimean War (by David Murphy) Collecting Live Soldiers (by Peter Ryan) An 1859 Cartoon on the Staff College 'A Very Dangerous Man': a Profile of Henry Brackenbury (by Ian Harvie) The Fight at Chilas (by Rod MacNeil) Mr Gladstone and the Egyptian War: an historiographical note India Plays the Game: Raising the Indian Mounted Infantry Corps (Lumsden's Horse) for Service in South Africa in 1900 (by Conrad Bailey)   Issue 95 - December 1998 The Taku Forts, 1860: some pictures (by Michael Barthorp) 'Russians at the Gates of India': the Defence of India's Northern Flank (by R.A. Johnson) Trouble in the 2nd Grenadier Guards, in 1890 (by J.V. Webb) The British South Africa Police, 1890-1914 (by N.C. Hayes) Death on Spion Kop (by John C. Welch)   Issue 94 - September 1998 (Sudan Centenary Special Issue) Captain Thomas W. Healey (by David Murray) An Egypt Medal without Clasp (by John Sly) The Sudan Military Railway (by Ralph Moore-Morris) The Lincoln's at the Atbara (by David G. Nalson) Interlude at Darmali (by David Murray) David Beatty, R.N. (by Richard Caie) On This Day, 2 September 1989 (news item) The Battle of Omdurman (officer's diary) Fighting Mac 1898 (original letter) Lt. Col. H.T. Crispin, Sussex Regt. (by Cliff Fuller) The Blue Nile (by Archie Hunter) The Khalifa's Last Stand (by Ralph Moore-Morris) Weapons Profile (by Ralph Moore-Morris) The Last of the Mahdists (by Edwin Herbert) A Note on British Officers (by Henry Keown-Boyd) The Melik Society (The Sudan Wars Study Group)    Issue 93 - June 1993 The Last Crimean Widow (by David Murray) The Real Samuel Wassall, 1837 (by James W. Bancroft) A 'Diehard' Drummer (by Graham Gillmore) The 36th Sikhs and Samana (by Rod MacNeil) "The honour and reputation of the army": Lord Roberts, the Government and the Fight at Nicholson's Nek (by Keith Surridge) 3rd December 1893: the Day the Matabele War was Lost (by Ian Cross)        Issue 91 - December 1997 Uniform Study Group (by Keith Perks) The Record Number of Victoria Crosses for One Action (by Colin Robins) Officer and Gentleman? A Crimean War Cartoon (by Colin Robins) The Heeresgeschtliches Museum (by Ian Harvie) Heroism and Death: in the First Afghan War and After (by Michael Barthorp) March Journal of Private Parfitt, 1st Bn., 8th (King's) Regiment, 1866-1877 (by Peter M. Gray) Survivors' Tales of Great Events (by James W. Bancroft) More Crimean War Cartoons