Description | Letters, diary entries and newspaper articles describing specific events from the history of the 1st Battalion, including at Martinique (1759), Guadeloupe (1760), the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, the 65th Regiment's service in New Zealand 1846-1866, the drowning of three soldiers in Ireland in 1890, the first year of the Boer War 1899-1900, attack on Barakli-Dzuma, Struma Plain, Macedonia in 1916, and action at Kvam, Norway in 1940. |