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Books
Have a look at our fascinating collection of books some of which are published by the museum and only available from us.
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BooksBrotherhood of The Cauldron
£12.99 Add to basketBrotherhood of The Cauldronrishmen in the 1st Airborne Division from North Africa to Arnhem by David Truesdale
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BooksChristmas Gift IdeasEdward John Mott VC DCM
£15.00 Add to basketThe life of Sergeant Edward John Mott VC DCM, Border Regiment.
This biography has been written By Edward Mott’s grandson, Andrew Mott
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BooksFifty First Field – The story of the 51st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Westmoreland & Cumberland Yeomanry), in the Second World War
£14.50 Add to basketThe story of the 51st Field regiment, Royal Artillery (Westmoreland & Cumberland yeomanry), in the second World War By Thomas Thompson (Paperback with black and white photographs 128 pages).
This new book has been published by Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life
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BooksLions & Dragons: an Illustrated History of the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment 1959-2006
£25.00 Add to basketBy Stuart Eastwood
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BooksRegimentalOur Family
£3.50 Add to basketOur Family (£3.50 including free UK mainland delivery) – The Fascination, sometimes sad, often inspiring, stories of members of our Regimental family, from 1702 to the present day.
This A5, 16 page, collection of stories is free to those who take out a Family membership with the Friends of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life.
For more information about the Friends (including details about how to join), CLICK HERE
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BooksQuartered Safe Out Here
£12.99 Add to basketby George MacDonald Fraser. The author of the Flashman novels provides one of the best accounts of active service to have been written, based on his experiences with the 9th Battalion The Border Regiment in Burma 1944-45.
Now with a poignant Epilogue written 50 years later.
Paperback, 347 pages.
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BooksSingular Honour
£10.00 Add to basketThe 34th Regiment of Foot’s unique battle honour “Arroyo dos Molinos” – a series of essays Resumenes en Castellano”
Editor Peter Green
The Arroyo drums are fundamental to the military heritage of Cumbria. Captured from The French 34ème Regiment by the `Cumberland Gentlemen’ durIng a surprise attack on a French column at Arroyo Molinos in southern Spain In October 1811, They have pride of place In The Museum and In The hearts of our soldiers right up to The present day. The 55th Foot who in 1873 Joined The 34th and In 1881 became The 2nd Battalion of The Border Regiment, fought In The 1st China War of 1841-42 and captured an Imperial Chinese Dragon Standard. The Border Regiment badge had a Chinese Imperial Dragon on a red and white centre; The colours a memory of the tuft worn after Arroyo Molinos.
In the First World War The Border Regiment served on the Western Front, in Italy, Gallipoli and Salonika. In The Second World War the 1st Battalion became airborne troops and landed In Sicily and at Arnhem. Other battalions fought In France, The Middle East and The Western Desert and three fought in Burma as part of the 14th Army.
The Border Regiment amalgamated with The King’s Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) In 1959 to form The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (KORBR). The Regiment served In the UK and all over the world, Including ten tours of Northern Ireland.
The 2006 The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment amalgamated with The King’s Regiment and Queen’s Lancashire Regiment In north-west England to form “The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s, Lancashire & Border).”
20cm W x 21cm H Pamphlet style/paperback 42 pages
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BooksThe Border Regiment In The Great War
£25.00 Add to basketThe history of the Border Regiment throughout World War I Originally published in 1924, this rare history has now been reprinted in paperback by Naval and Military Press – 274 pages, illus/photos, maps
