Inexpensive handbooks are available that give assistance and advice in locating Army records. Family Tree Magazine, published monthly, contains a centre pull out section of books and other publications available to help with research.
Below are listed a selection of books dealing with the history of specific units. Some of these are available from the Museum Shop.
TABLE 1 – THE ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT (49th and 66th Regiments of Foot)
Serial | Publication Title/Author | Unit(s) | Period Covered | Publisher/Date |
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) |
1. | The 66th Berkshire Regiment: A Brief History of Its Services at Home and Abroad from 1758-1881 (J Percy GROVES) | 66th Regiment of Foot | 1758-1881 | Joseph J Beecroft, Reading, 1887 |
2. | Life and Recollections of Major HM Davenport from 1835-1850 (DAVENPORT) | 66th Regiment of Foot | 1835-1850 | Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London, 1869 |
3. | A Veteran of 1812 (The Life of James Fitzgibbons) (FITZGIBBONS) | 49th Regiment of Foot | 1799-1826 | William Briggs, Toronto, Canada, 1894 |
4. | The History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) 1920-1947 (Brigadier Gordon BLIGHT) | R BERKS | 1920-1947 | Staples Press, London, 1953 |
5. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment (The 49th/66th Regiment of Foot) (Major F MYATT MC) | R BERKS | 1743-1959 | Hamish Hamilton, London, 1968 |
6. | History of the Royal Berkshire Militia (Now 3rd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment) (Emma THOYTS) | Royal Berkshire Militia | 1758-1881 | Joseph Hawkes, Reading, 1897 |
7. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s), Vol. 1 (F Loraine PETRE) | R BERKS | 1743-1914 | Brock Barracks, Reading, 1925 |
8. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s), Vol. 2 (F Loraine PETRE) | R BERKS | 1914-1918 | Brock Barracks, Reading, 1925 |
9. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s), Vol. 1 (F Loraine PETRE) | R BERKS | 1743-1914 | Parchment Printing, Oxford, 2005 |
10. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s), Vol. 2 (F Loraine PETRE) | R BERKS | 1914-1918 | Parchment Printing, Oxford, 2005 |
11. | A Short Regimental History: The Royal Berkshire Regiment | R BERKS | 1743-1953 | Reading, 1953 |
12. | 4/6th Battalion, the Royal Berkshire Regiment (TA): A Short History of the Origins and Formation of the 4th/6th Battalion, the Royal Berkshire Regiment, Territorial Army, 1859-1959 (Lieutenant PC STEVENS) | 4th/6th R BERKS (TA) | 1859-1959 | Goddard-Lawrence, West Ealing, London, 1959 |
13. | A Short History of the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) (WO2 JE PERRY) | R BERKS | 1714-1914 (Part 1) 1914-1939 (Part 2) | Crown Press, Reading, 1939 |
14. | Notes for Instructors on the History of the 49th and 66th, 1st and 2nd Battalions the Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Captains H PAWLE and VG STOKES) | R BERKS | 1743-1917 | Bradley and Son, Reading, 1917 |
15. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment 1743-1914, by Martin McIntyre. Photographic | R BERKS | 1743-1914 | Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2006 |
16. | The Royal Berkshire Regiment 1914-1959, by Martin McIntyre. Photographic. | R BERKS | 1914-1959 | Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2005 |
17. | Adventures of an Ancient Warrior (Brigadier K PEARCE SMITH) | 1, 2 & 6 R BERKS | 1914-1945 | Stones Printers, Milford-on-Sea, 1984 |
18. | Responding to the Call (Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment 1915) | R BERKS | 1915 | University of Reading, 1995 |
19. | On the Somme (Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment 1916) | R BERKS | 1916 | University of Reading, 1996 |
20. | Arras to Cambrai (Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment 1917) | R BERKS | 1917 | University of Reading, 1997 |
21. | Their Duty Done (Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment 1918) | R BERKS | 1918 | University of Reading, 1998 |
22. | The China Dragon’s Tales – The 1st Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment in the Great War | 1 R BERKS | 1914-1918 | RGBW Museum and Wardrobe Trust; printed by Parchment Printing, Oxford, 2004 |
23. | The 2nd Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment in World War One | 2 R BERKS | 1914-1918 | Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2005 |
24. | The War Service of the 1/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment (TF) (CRMF CRUTTWELL) | 1/4 R BERKS | 1914-1918 | Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1922 |
25. | War Diary of the 1st Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 1 R BERKS | 1914-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
26. | War Diary of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 2 R BERKS | 1914-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
27. | War Diary of the 1/4th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 1/4 R BERKS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
28. | War Diary of the 2/4th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 2/4 R BERKS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
29. | War Diary of the 5th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 5 R BERKS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
30. | War Diary of the 6th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 6 R BERKS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
31. | War Diary of the 7th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 7 R BERKS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
32. | War Diary of the 8th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 8 R BERKS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
33. | Land-locked Lake (Lieutenant Colonel HANBURY SPARROW) | 1 & 2 R BERKS | 1914-1918 | Hazzell, Watson & Viney Ltd., 1932 |
34. | War Diary of the 1st Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 1 R BERKS | 1940-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
35. | War Diary of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 2 R BERKS | 1943-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
36. | War Diary of the 5th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 5 R BERKS | 1943-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
37. | War Diary of the 10th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 10 R BERKS | 1940-1944 | Museum, 2007 |
38. | War Diary of the 30th Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment | 30 R BERKS | 1944-1945 | Museum, 2006 |
39. | China Dragons: A Rifle Company at War (John HILL) | 2 R BERKS | 1944-1945 | Blandford Books, London, 1991 |
40. | China Dragons: A Rifle Company at War (John HILL) | 2 R BERKS | 1944-1945 | Blandford Books, London, 2005 (Re-print of 1991 edition) |
41. | Slim’s Burma Boys (John HILL) | 2 R BERKS | 1944-1945 | Spellmount Publishing, 2007 |
42. | The Fighting Tenth: A Short History of the 10th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1940-1944 (David RC WEST) | 10 R BERKS | 1940-1944 | 10th Royal Berkshires Reunion Committee, Marlborough, 1950 |
43. | The Fighting Tenth: A Short History of the 10th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1940-1944 (David RC WEST) | 10 R BERKS | 1940-1944 | Museum, 2005 (Re-print of 1950 edition, with the battalion war diary added) |
44. | The Last Twelve Years (Major F MYATT MC) | R BERKS | 1947-1959 | Museum and Wardrobe Trust in collaboration with RHQ DERR, 1988 |
45. | The Last Twelve Years (Major F MYATT MC) | R BERKS | 1947-1959 | University of Reading, 2005 (reprint 0f 44) |
TABLE 2 – THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT (62nd and 99th Regiments of Foot)
Serial | Publication | Unit(s) | Period | Publisher |
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) |
1. | Historical Records of the 62nd, or the 1st Wiltshire Regiment (Garnett Blennerhassett O’CONNOR) | 62nd Regiment of Foot | 1745-1885 | J May, Aldershot, 1885 |
2. | The Springers (HMC) | 62nd Regiment of Foot | 1760-1814 | William Carson, Dublin, published (about) late nineteenth century |
3. | From Calcutta to Pekin (Captain JH DUNNE) | 99th Regiment of Foot | Feb-Nov 1860 | Sampson Low, London, 1861 |
4. | From Calcutta to Pekin (Captain JH DUNNE) | 99th Regiment of Foot | Feb-Nov 1860 | Museum reprint, 2002 |
5. | Soldiering Fifty Years Ago: Australia in the Forties (Major DE WINTON) | 99th Regiment of Foot | 1840. | European Mail, London, 1898 |
6. | Soldiering Fifty Years Ago: Australia in the Forties (Major DE WINTON) | 99th Regiment of Foot | 1840. | Museum reprint, 2002 |
7. | The Story of the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s), the 62nd and 99th Foot (1756-1959) (Colonel NCE KENRICK) | WILTS | 1756-1959 | Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1963 |
8. | Historical Retrospect of the Wiltshire Regiment: Formerly the 62nd and 99th Foot and the Royal Wiltshire Militia (HMC) | WILTS & Royal Wiltshire Militia | 1756-1881 | Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1899 |
9. | The First Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment: Illustrated with a Short Extract from the Records of the Regiment | 1 WILTS | 1756-1882 | Fred Bremner, Quetta, Baluchistan, 1899 |
10. | A Short History of the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s), (62nd and 99th Foot) from(1756-1918) (Lieutenant Colonel Bt. RMT GILLSON DSO) | WILTS | 1756-1918 | Gale and Polden, London, 1921 and 1926 |
11. | Pictorial Souvenir of the Duke of Edinburgh’s 2nd Battalion, 4th Wiltshire Regiment | 2/4 WILTS | 1743-1915 | British Historical and Art Publishing Company, Poona, India, 1915 |
12. | Second Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) Centenary image book | 2 WILTS | 1760-1925 | Bangalore, India, 1924 |
13. | The History of the First Volunteer Battalion (Duke of Edinburgh’s), the Wiltshire Regiment (Colonel FGF BROWNE and Captain FC WHITING) | 1 WILTS Rifle Volunteers | 1914-1919 | Bennett Brothers, Salisbury, 1919 |
14. | The Wiltshire Regiment (the 62nd and 99th Regiments of Foot) (Lieutenant Colonel Tom GIBSON) | WILTS | 1756-1959 | Leo Cooper, London, 1969 |
15. | With the 2/4 Wilts to India (JW GALE) | 2/4 WILTS | 1914-1919 | JW Gale, Marlborough, 1934 |
16. | The Wiltshire Regiment 1756-1914 (Martin McINTYRE) Photographic | WILTS | 1756-1914 | Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2007 |
17. | The Wiltshire Regiment 1914-1959 (Martin McINTYRE) Photographic. | WILTS | 1914-1959 | Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2006 |
18. | The1/4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment, 1914-1919 (Lieutenant George BLICK) | 1/4 WILTS | 1914-1919 | Butler and Tanner, Frome, Dorset and London, 1933 |
19. | 1st Bn Wiltshire Regiment in the Great War (Edwin ASTILL) | 1 WILTS | 1914-1918 | Museum and Edwin Astill, 2005 |
20. | The 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment (99th): A Record of Their Fighting in the Great War, 1914-1918 (Major W Scott SHEPHERD) | 2 WILTS | 1914-1918 | Gale and Polden, Aldershot, 1927 |
21. | War Diary of the 1st Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 1 WILTS | 1914-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
22. | War Diary of the 2nd Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 2 WILTS | 1914-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
23. | War Diary of the 5th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 5 WILTS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
24. | War Diary of the 6th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 6 WILTS | 1915-1919 | Museum, 2006 |
25. | A History of the 5th (Service) Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment 1914-1919 (Paula PERRY) | 5 WILTS | 1914-1919 | Museum, 2007 |
26. | War Diary of the 1st Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 1 WILTS | 1942-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
27. | War Diary of the 2nd Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 2 WILTS | 1939-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
28. | War Diary of the 4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 4 WILTS | 1944-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
29. | War Diary of the 5th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment | 5 WILTS | 1944-1946 | Museum, 2006 |
30. | A Conscript at War (LC PINNER) | 4 WILTS | 1940-1946 | Museum, 1998 |
31. | The Long, Long Road to Victory (J HILLIER) | 2 WILTS | 1940-1946 | J Hillier, Trowbridge, Wilts, 1995 |
32. | The Story of C Company, 4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment (the Duke of Edinburgh’s) from 6th June to 22nd July 1944 (ASP JEANS) | 4 WILTS | 194. | Unpublished, 1990 |
33. | Private Young’s War | 4 WILTS | 1921-1946 | Museum, 2004 |
34. | The Maroon Square: A History of the 4th Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) in North-West Europe 1939-1946 (Major AD PARSONS, DIM ROBBINS and DC GILSON) | 4 WILTS | 1939-1946 | Franey, London, 1955 |
35. | The Fifth Battalion, the Wiltshire Regiment in North-West Europe, June 1944-May 1945 (Captain JS McMATH) | 5 WILTS | 1944-1945 | Whitefriars Press, London, 1950s |
36. | Sergeant Rogers Day (Brigadier DE BALLANTINE) | 2 WILTS | 1939-1944 | The Wiltshire Regiment, published (about) 1989 |
TABLE 3 – THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S ROYAL REGIMENT (BERKSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE)
Serial | Publication | Unit(s) | Period | Publisher |
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) |
1. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) (Captain JA BARROW) | DERR | 1959-1971 | Exeter, 1971 |
2. | Cold War Warriors: The Story of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire), 9th June 1959-27th April 1994 (Lieutenant Colonel DJA STONE) | DERR | 1743-1994 | Leo Cooper, Pen & Sword, Barnsley, 1998 |
3. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) by Martin McIntyre, Photographic. | DERR | 1959-1994 | Tempus Publishing, Gloucestershire, 2007 |
4. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire): Two Famous Regiments | R BERKS and WILTSHIRES | 1743-1959 | Leo Cooper, London, 1970 (for RHQ DERR) |
5. | 1st Battalion The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Publication | DERR | 1959-1969 | JCC Bruns, West Germany |
6. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment: County Regiment of Berkshire and Wiltshire | DERR | 1881-1978 | Beric Tempest & Co Ltd., St. Ives, 1980 |
7. | The Story of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire) | DERR | 1743-1991 | Beric Tempest & Co Ltd., St. Ives, 1992 |
8. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire): County Regiment of Berkshire and Wiltshire | DERR | 1881-1991 | Castle Print, Richmond, North Yorkshire |
9. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire): June 1959-June 1989 – 30th Anniversary Celebrations, 14th July 1989 | DERR | 1959-1989 | Hong Kong, 1989 |
10. | The Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire): Hong Kong Commemorative Brochure – January 1988-August 1990 | 1 DERR | 1839-1990 | Hong Kong, 1990 |
11. | 1st Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment (Berkshire and Wiltshire): Fermanagh Roulement Battalion, Northern Ireland, 10 December 1990-4 May 1991 | 1 DERR | 1990-1991 | Castle Print, Richmond, North Yorkshire, 1991 |
TABLE 4 – THE ROYAL GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BERKSHIRE AND WILTSHIRE REGIMENT (and RGBWLI)
Serial | Publication | Unit(s) | Period | Publisher |
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) |
1. | Our Laurels Are Green: A Brief History of the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment (Robin GRIST) | RGBW | 1694-1996 | Forces & Corporate Publishing Ltd., Rushden, Northamptonshire, 1997 |
2. | Operation HERRICK 3: Afghanistan September 2005 – April 2006 | 1 RGBWLI | 2005-2006 | RHQ RGBWLI |
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