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Category Archives: History
Chaplains of Adventure
Topic October/November 2018. The first Legion Padre was Bishop H.H. Montgomery, who we will know of in the main as being the father of the famous Montgomery of Alamein. He was succeeded by several mainly London-based clergymen, often with somewhat … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen, Roger Pocock
Tagged Cave-Browne-Cave, Harry Leigh Pink, Wild West
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Commemorating the “Nine Thousand”
Topic August/September 2018. There will be many commemorations and countless books about the centenary of the end of the First War – the Great War – the “war to end all wars”. In this topic page we will take a look … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged First War, WW1
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Origins of the Legion of Frontiersmen and the formation of MI5/6
This is a summary of the talk given by Dr Anne Samson1 on 19 May 2018 to the Victorian Military Society.2 The question to be answered was “how was the formation of the Legion of Frontiersmen linked with the formation … Continue reading
The RSM-in-Chief
Topic June/July 2018. Before we located the I.W.M. photograph of Sidney James Alexander M.C. outside Buckingham Palace, all we had to start with was a rather faint photograph of him in Frontiersmen uniform. By that time he had acquired some rotundity … Continue reading
A Persistent Mystery
Surprising Snippets 8: An unsolvable mystery is, who was the person from which official government or military department who decided that the file on the Frontiersmen and Remounts in the last quarter of 1914 was not worth saving at The … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Legion of Frontiersmen, Surprising Snippets, World War I
Tagged Remounts, Shirehampton, Swaythling, War Horses
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The Skipper
Surprising Snippets 7: Known to his children, who were all devoted to him, as “The Skipper”, Vahd William Tobin was known always as Bill. According to his son Peter (who himself became very well-known in southern Africa as a broadcaster … Continue reading
