This Day In History

  • 1945 92nd L.A.A, Regt Royal Artillery (formerly 7th Loyals), deployed on the west bank of the Rhine, begins firing on ground targets on the opposite bank in preparation for the Allied crossing of the Rhine at Wesel. 32,000 rounds are fired over the next four days.
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Narrative Histories

Seven Years War  
  The Regiments in the Seven Years War 1756-63
War of American Independence  
  The ‘Fighting Fortieth’ at the Battle of Germantown, 4 October 1777
Napoleonic Wars  
  With Nelson To Bastia
  The Battle of Barossa
  Waterloo
  The Regiment’s Greatest Tragedy – The Wrecking of the Sea Horse, Lord Melville & Boadicea
Soldiers of Empire  
  The “Battle” of the Eureka Stockade – Australia 1854
Crimea  
  The Battle of the Alma
  The Heroes of Inkerman
1st, 2nd & 3rd Afghan Wars  
  The Regiments in Afghanistan 1838-42, 1878-80, and 1919
Boer War  
  The Regiments in the South African War 1899-1902
World War I  
  The Regiments in the Great War 1914-1918
  The Christmas Truces 1914
  2nd Loyals in East Africa 1914-17
  Mesopotamia 1916-1918
  The Accrington Pals and the Benedictine Connection – or ‘A Bene and ‘ot’
World War II  
  The Regiments in World War II
Post-War  
  The Regiments Post-War 1945-1970
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