Army Records Society Explained

The Army Records Society is a text publication society for the history of the British Army. The society was established in 1984^[1] and is a registered charity.^[2] To date (October 2022) the society has issued 41 volumes of material.

Selected publications

18th Century volumes

• An Eighteenth-Century Secretary at War: The Papers of William, Viscount Barrington (ed. Dr Tony Hayter, 1988) vol. 4
• Colonel Samuel Bagshawe and the Army of King George II, 1731-1762 (ed. Dr Alan J. Guy, 1990) vol. 6
• John Peebles’ American War, 1776-1782 (ed. Professor Ira D. Gruber, 1998) vol. 13
• The Journal of Corporal William Todd, 1745-1762 (eds. Andrew Cormack & Alan Jones, 2001) vol. 18
• Amherst and the Conquest of Canada (ed. Dr Richard Middleton, 2003) vol. 20
• The Duke of Cumberland's Campaigns in Britain and the Low Countries, 1745-1748: A Selection of His Letters (eds. Alastair Massie & Jonathan Oates, 2018) vol. 38

19th Century volumes

• The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, 1807-1816 (ed. Professor Roger Norman Buckley, 1987) vol. 3
• Roberts in India: The Military Papers of Field Marshal Lord Roberts, 1876-1893 (ed. Brian Robson, 1993) vol. 9
• Lord Chelmsford’s Zululand Campaign, 1878-1879 (ed. Professor John Laband, 1994) vol. 10
• Letters of a Victorian Army Officer: Edward Wellesley, 1840-1854 (ed. Field Marshal Michael Carver, 1995) vol. 11
• The Maratha War Papers of Arthur Wellesley, January to December 1803 (ed. Anthony S. Bennell, 1998) vol. 14
• Sir Hugh Rose and the Central India Campaign, 1858 (ed. Brian Robson, 2000) vol. 16
• At Wellington’s Right Hand: The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, 1808-1815 (ed. Dr Rory Muir, 2003) vol. 21
• Romaine’s Crimean War: The Letters and Journal of William Govett Romaine 1854-6 (ed. Major Colin Robins OBE, 2005) vol. 24
• Wolseley and Ashanti: The Asante War Journal and Correspondence of Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley 1873-1874 (ed. Professor Ian F. W. Beckett, 2009) vol. 28
• Crimean Cavalry Letters (ed. Glenn Fisher, 2011) vol. 31

20th Century volumes

• The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, 1918-1922 (ed. Dr Keith Jeffery, 1985) vol. 1
• The Army and the Curragh Incident, 1914 (ed. Professor Ian F. W. Beckett, 1986) vol. 2
• The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, December 1915-February 1918 (ed. Professor David Woodward, 1989) vol. 5
• Montgomery and the Eighth Army: A Selection from the Diaries, Correspondence and other Papers of Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (ed. Stephen Brooks, 1991) vol. 7
• The British Army and Signals Intelligence during the First World War (ed. Dr John Ferris, 1992) vol. 8
• The Letters of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington CMG, Military Correspondent of The Times, 1903-1918 (ed. Professor A. J. A. Morris, 1999) vol. 15
• Lord Roberts and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 (ed. Professor André Wessels, 2000) vol. 17
• Rawlinson in India (ed. Dr Mark Jacobsen, 2002) vol. 19
• Allenby in Palestine (ed. Dr Matthew Hughes, 2004) vol. 22
• Lord Kitchener and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 (ed. Professor André Wessels, 2006) vol. 25
• Major General Oliver Nugent and the Ulster Division, 1915-1918 (ed. Nicholas Perry, 2007) vol. 26
• Montgomery and the Battle of Normandy (ed. Stephen Brooks, 2008) vol. 27
• The First World War Letters of General Lord Horne (ed. Dr Simon Robbins, 2009) vol. 29
• The Military Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam, 1910-1942 (ed. Dr Jim Beach, 2010) vol. 30
• The Military Papers of Lieutenant-General Frederick Stanley Maude, 1914-1917 (ed. Dr Andrew Syk, 2011) vol. 32
• The Kenya Papers of General Sir George Erskine 1953-1955 (ed. Dr Huw Bennett & Professor David French, 2013) vol. 33
• Military Intelligence from Germany 1906-1914 (ed. Matthew S. Seligmann, 2014) vol. 34
• The Diary of Corporal Vince Schürhoff 1914-1918 (ed. Jim Beach, 2015) vol. 35
• Liaison: General Pierre des Vallières at British General Headquarters, January 1916 to May 1917 (ed. Elizabeth Greenhalgh, 2016) vol. 36
• The Military Papers and Correspondence of Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, 1916-1933 (ed. Dr Alaric Searle, 2017) vol. 37
• Lord Gorell and the Army Education Corps 1918-1920 (ed. Dr Jim Beach, 2019) vol. 39
• The Military Papers of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, Volume 1: 1940-42 (ed. Timothy Bowman, 2021) vol. 40
• The First World War Diary of Noël Drury, 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers: Gallipoli, Salonika, the Middle East and the Western Front (ed. Richard S. Grayson, 2022) vol. 41

Miscellaneous

• Military Miscellany I: Manuscripts from the Seven Years' War, the First and Second Sikh Wars, and the First World War (eds. Alan J. Guy, R. N. W. Thomas & Gerard J. DeGroot, 1996) vol. 12
  • George Durant’s Journal of the Expedition to Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1758-1759 (ed. Dr Alan J. Guy)
  • Daniel Robinson: Letters from India, 1845-1849 (ed. Dr Robin N. W. Thomas)
  • The Reverend George Duncan at GHQ, 1916-1918 (ed. Dr Gerard DeGroot)
• Military Miscellany II: Manuscripts from Marlborough's Wars, the American War of Independence, and the Boer War (eds. David Chandler with Christopher Scott, Marianne M. Gilchrist & Robin Jenkins, 2005) vol. 23
  • The Journal of Sergeant John Wilson, 1694-1727 (ed. Dr David Chandler with Christopher Scott)
  • Captain the Hon William Leslie (1751-1777), His Life, Letters and Commemoration (ed. Dr Marianne M. Gilchrist)
  • Diary of Private Robert Cross, 1899-1901 (ed. Robin Jenkins)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Army Records Society - The Society. www.armyrecordssociety.org.uk.
2. Web site: Charity Details. beta.charitycommission.gov.uk.