Description | Diaries, presscuttings, letters and memoirs describing specific events or time periods in the history of the 84th Regiment and 2nd Battalion. Includes the life of William Nightingale, 1794-1819; the Indian Mutiny 1857-1858; the Egyptian Campaign of 1882; the sinking of the troopship R.I.M.S. Warren Hastings in 1897; action at Crete c.1940; Major R.P.J. Dobney's service in the 2nd Battalion with particular focus on the second Chindits expedition of 1944. |