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Category Archives: History
The Presidents
Topic April / May 2020. The Legion has in recent years understandably concentrated with pride on their Patron, the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma. It must not be forgotten that she would not accept the position of President, a long-standing position … Continue reading
The Pioneer Frontiersmen Flyers
On the Canada pages of this website you will find Historian Will Shandro’s account of the Calgary Frontiersmen’s effort to pay for an airship, although this apparently came to nothing. On another page we tell of the highly successful Air … Continue reading
Posted in Archive Topics, Canada, Frontiersmen, History, Legion of Frontiersmen, Uncategorized
Tagged Air Aces, Wop May, WW1
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The Lost Squadron
Topic February / March 2020. The Lost Squadron and Major E. H. Rhodes-Wood. It is too much to ask you to write to Woodall in India, Brown in Russia, Smith in Malaya, Jones in China and Robinson in Patagonia. Few … Continue reading
Independence
Topic December 2019 / January 2020. “The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged Burma, Egypt, Gold Coast, Lord Lloyd, Mandalay, Rangoon, Uniform, Winston Churchill
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The Frontiersman Traitor
…but who was never brought to justice! Those who have read our most recently published book The Frontiers of Truth will have seen that there have been Frontiersmen who have been accomplished liars, cheats and rogues in their spare time … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen
Tagged Australian Light Horse, Canadian Division, Cyril Wybrow, Egypt, Lord Lloyd
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A Moment in History
Topic October / November 2019. Captain Arthur Wynell Lloyd, M.C. was a very brave man. He was one of the few Frontiersmen to be still able to fight at the last engagement at Nyangao, for which the Royal Fusiliers were … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Latest Topic, Legion of Frontiersmen, World War I
Tagged Africa, East Africa, Holborn Restaurant, Smuts
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The Frontiersman who won the George Medal
Surprising Snippets 10 William Green, G.M. Wilbur Dartnell is well known to all as the man who won the Victoria Cross as a Frontiersman, but the man who won another of the highest gallantry awards The George Medal, also as … Continue reading
Posted in Frontiersmen, History, Legion of Frontiersmen, Surprising Snippets
Tagged Bombay, Fort Stikine disaster, George Medal, India, William Green G.M.
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Real Austerity
Topic August / September 2019. It was not until 1922 that the Legion of Frontiersmen recovered in any way from the losses of the First War. The Legion had grown so rapidly in its first ten years and with such … Continue reading
Answering the Call
Topic June / July 2019. As the threat of another world war grew ever more likely in the 1930s, Frontiersmen had hopes that they would be granted a named unit as they had in the First War. As retired senior officers, … Continue reading
The Badges of the Legion of Frontiersmen, 1904-2001
Nowhere is there to be found a list of the metal badges of the Legion of Frontiersmen, so this should explain them and how they came to be used, more or less in chronological order. 1) The infant Legion had … Continue reading
