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Latest book news from Malcolm Johnson:

I was asked to write the final volume of the Regimental History Volume VII -
Yield To None, and the Photographic History, by the Regimental Secretary -
Major C.M.J. Deedes, and the other two books were produced with his full
approval. The following list is in order of publication and all are
available from the KOYLI Regimental Museum which is house in the
Doncaster Museum, Chequer Road. DONCASTER, DN1 2AE Tel: 01302-734293

Pontefract to Picardy
The 9th KOYLI in the First World War
Author: Derek Clayton
Pub: Tempus Pub Ltd
Price: £17.99
Available from all book shops & Regt Museum

Spandau Prison Berlin
Author: Peter Kirton
Pub: Write Books CPR Ltd, Pontefract Road, Ferrybridge, West Yorks, WF11 8PL
Price: £9.99
Available from publishers and Regt Museum

The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1857 - 1968 A Photographic History.
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Tempus Pub. Ltd. Stroud
2000
£9.99
Available form : - Regimental Museum,
Doncaster Museum

Saturday Soldiers The Territorial Battalions of the KOYLI 1908-1919
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Doncaster Museum Services
2004
£12.50 p&p £3.50
Available from: - Regimental Museum
Doncaster Museum

Yield To None History of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Volume VII
1945 - 1968
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Propagator Press, AMS Educational Ltd, 28 Parkside Road, LEEDS, LS6
4NB
(Tel: 0113 275 9900)
2005
£12.95
Available from : - The publishers (p&p incl.) : Regimental Museum : or
ordered from any retail outlet.

Surely We Are Winning An Ordinary Family During The
Great War
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Propagator Press, AMS Educational Ltd, 28 Parkside Road, LEEDS, LS6
4NB
(Tel: 0113 275 9900)
2007
£12.95
Available from : - The publishers (p&p incl.) : Regimental museum : or
ordered from any retail outlet.

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MALAYAN TALES OF THE YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY by John Scurr. This book is not intended to be a history of the KOYLI in Malaya. It is simply a collection of soldiers' stories, told by the men who lived them. The author and those that survived, looking back, can think of no other time in their lives that can compare with those years in Malaya for richness of experience, good or bad, or for wealth of comradeship. HC, 175pp, illus., pub 1997, Pentland.

Look at the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum - Publisher Bessacarr Prints, Published 31 October 1987.

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FIGHTING TYKES: The Yorkshire Regiments in World War II by Charles Whiting and Eric Taylor. Included are the histories of: the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; the East Riding Yeomanry; the York and Lancaster Regiment; the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment; East Yorkshire Regiment; Green Howards; West Yorkshire Regiment. SC, illus.,238pp, pub. 1993, Leo Cooper.

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COOPER, LEONARD (Famous Regiments) KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY 1970. Leo Cooper, 1st edn, 125pp, Introduction by Lt Gen Sir Brian Horrocks. This volume provides the complete history and combat achievements of the 51st and 105th Regiments of Foot from Waterloo, the two World Wars to pursuing Mau Mau terrorists in post-war Kenya.

ELLENBERGER, BRIG. G F MC HISTORY OF THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY 1961. Gale and Polden, 1st edn, 184pp, Order of Battle, maps. Vol. VI 1939 - 1945. The bulk of the book describes the action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and North West Europe by the 1st, 1/4th and 2/4th Battalions.

WYLLY, COL. H.C. HISTORY OF THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY nd (c 1920). HUMPHRIES, 1st edn, viii + 374 pp, maps, ills. Volume one from the raising of the Regiment in 1755 up to Afghanistan in 1881.

WYLLY, COL. H.C. HISTORY OF THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY 1950. PRIVATELY PUB, 1st edn, xvi + 243 pp, ills, maps, pb. Volume V from 1919 through to 1942, subtitled Never Give Up.

A Short History of The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (51st and 105th) 1755-1965. The Wakefield Express Series Ltd., Express House, Southgate, Wakefield. 36 pages. Map of KOYLI overseas service, 1757-1965.

A Short History Of The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry,1755-1928"... printer by W.Mc.GOWAN, Corn Market, Pontefract.1929... 30 pages, 2 phtographs

HARLAND, MAJOR G.C.W. THE WAR HISTORY OF THE 1/4TH BN. THE K.O.Y.L.I. 1987. PRIVATELY PUBLISHED, rpt, 31 pp, pb. The war history of The 1/4th Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in WWII.

WHEATER, W A RECORD OF THE SERVICES OF THE FIFTY-FIRST 1870. LONGMANS, 1st edn, iv + 277 pp, cond vg, spine slightly torn, new end papers. A record of the services of the Fifty-First (Second West York,) the King's Own Light Infantry Regiment. With a list of officers from 1755 to 1870.

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Wheeler, William, edited and with a foreword by Captain B.H. Liddell Hart. LETTERS OF PRIVATE WHEELER. Boston 1952, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US ed. 6x9, 342 pp, end paper maps. Excellent memoirs of a British soldier of the 51st Foot ( King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ), from 1809 to 1828, he served in the ill-fated Walcheren expedition, then thru Wellington's Peninsular campaigns and also at Waterloo in 1815. He retired in 1828 from the army, having risen to Sgt

DEEDES, G.P.. THE KING'S OWN LIGHT INFANTRY REGISTER OF OFFICERS. A register of Officers who have served on a Regular Commission in the Regiment since its formation on the 19th December 1755 until the end of the war on 15th August 1945. nd (c 1946). LUND HUMPHRIES, 1st edn, 247 pp,

A continuation of the historical records of the First Regiment of militia or Third West York Light Infantry, now the Third Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment, from 1875 to 1905 Author: Broughton, E. C. (Ernest Chamier), 1858- Publisher: W. Clowes.

A record of the services of the fifty-first (second West York), the "King's own light infantry" Regiment: with a list of officers from 1755 to 1870. Author: Wheater, William. Publisher: Longmans, Green.

History of the Kings's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. -- Publisher: P. Lund, Humphries,

The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (the 51st and 105th Regiments of Foot). Author: Cooper, Leonard. Publisher: Leo Cooper

The life of a regimental officer during the great war, 1793-1815. Compiled from the correspondence of Colonel Samuel Rice, C.B., K.H. 51st Light Infantry, and from other sources. Author: Mockler-Ferryman, Augustus Ferryman, 1856- Publisher: Blackwood,

The records of the Third Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment : late Second West York Light Infantry Militia. Author: Hay, G. I. Publisher: The Regiment],

Hingston, LT-Col Walter Never Give Up, The History of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1919-1942, Volume V London: Lund Humphries & Company, 1950 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" 243 pages, maps, illustrations illustrations by Major J Dugmore., covers India & Burma, Phoney war, Norway, French defeat and the tragedy in Burma.

RAIKES, Captain G. A. Historical Records or the First Regiment of Militia; or, Third West York Light Infantry. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1876. xvi, 334pp, [1]pp errata. Chromo frontis, 7 plts.

David, Saul.: Mutiny At Salerno. An Injustice Exposed. Brassey's, London. lst edition 1995 Hardback. In late Sept 1943 nearly 200 veterans of Monty's 8th army were arrested for refusing to join units of the US 5th Army at the Salerno beachhead in S. Italy. Within 6 weeks all but one had been found guilty of mutiny, their sentences ranging from 5 years penal servitude to death. Fifty years on, military historian David Saul, gaining access to the court marshal papers exposes the injustices and provides a compelling case for a Royal Pardon. 217 pps. The book then concludes with an open letter to the Secretary of State for Defence, (2 pps) + Appendix, + biblio, + Chapter notes and sources, + index. A sad, compelling and very necessary book.

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