NEWS
D-Day with the AGC’s Antecedents
ABCA sheet with images and information for soldiers regarding why they were fighting.
6th June marks the anniversary of D-Day and the start of the fight to liberate Western Europe during the Second World War. The invasion and subsequent campaign meant the mobilisation of thousands of British, Commonwealth and American troops in the weeks preceding the event ...
Boer War Temporary Exhibition
The AGC’s new temporary exhibit on items from the Second Boer War gives a glimpse in to the life of an Army Pay Corps soldier and his service during the conflict. It has led to discussion of the Second Boer War as a wider conflict, the Pay system in this period and the soldier, Staff Quartermaster ...
The Life and Adventures of Colonel Tim Sweeny, RAPC
Colonel T. H. Sweeny, RAPC.
A quick note to the reader: all place names that are used are the original names used by Col Sweeny in his memoir. The modern locations and place names have been included when each location is first mentioned.
Born in 1898, Colonel Thurston Humphrey ‘Tim’ Sweeny first joined the army as a ...
Army Education in the Victorian Era
In the Victorian period many Army recruits weren’t able to read or write, but the growing technical demands of soldiering required educated men. However, there was no available system in place for this so something had to be created.
‘The First Class Army School Certificate Made Easy’ by An Army Schoolmaster – 1890s
A page from the mathematics ...