Stations of the British Army
Posted: 17 Aug 2022, 14:23
I am indebted to Martin Briscoe of various Mailing Lists for this information.
Anyone who's ever tried to locate a regiment of the British Army in some arbitrary year should be grateful to know that various newspapers ran a feature "Stations of the British Army". If you go to your favourite newspaper search and look for that phrase, with luck you may find an article for your time period - or ones bracketing it.
I tried it on FindMyPast and got a fair selection of articles - I got back to the 1820s with the "Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser" (no I don't know what a "Pacquet" was...) while there were some in 1912 in the "War Office Times and Naval Review" when they seemed to do it monthly, there were only 4 or 5 in the previous 2 years, but that might be an indexing issue. I can't see any post-WW1 articles.
Formats vary - anyone wondering why regiments are listed non-alphabetically should realise they are in order of precedence, based on the original regimental numbers (e.g. the Cheshire Regiment was the 22nd).
Also, it seems to cover just cavalry regiments and infantry battalions so if you want artillery brigades, you're out of luck - in that case I'd have to revert to my previous method of looking in Army List.
Anyone who's ever tried to locate a regiment of the British Army in some arbitrary year should be grateful to know that various newspapers ran a feature "Stations of the British Army". If you go to your favourite newspaper search and look for that phrase, with luck you may find an article for your time period - or ones bracketing it.
I tried it on FindMyPast and got a fair selection of articles - I got back to the 1820s with the "Cumberland Pacquet, and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser" (no I don't know what a "Pacquet" was...) while there were some in 1912 in the "War Office Times and Naval Review" when they seemed to do it monthly, there were only 4 or 5 in the previous 2 years, but that might be an indexing issue. I can't see any post-WW1 articles.
Formats vary - anyone wondering why regiments are listed non-alphabetically should realise they are in order of precedence, based on the original regimental numbers (e.g. the Cheshire Regiment was the 22nd).
Also, it seems to cover just cavalry regiments and infantry battalions so if you want artillery brigades, you're out of luck - in that case I'd have to revert to my previous method of looking in Army List.