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Royal Warwickshire Regiment

In 1898 the regiment fought at Atbara and Omdurman during Lord Kitchener's reconquest of the Sudan and saw service in the Second Boer War at Johannesburg, Diamond Hill and Belfast.


Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

; he wrote the histories of the Royal Warwickshire and the Middlesex Regiments; and he edited the first volume on the manuscripts of Lord De L'isle and Dudley in the publications of the Historical MSS.

James Gildea

From 1890 to 1898, Gildea commanded the 6th (Militia) Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Samuel Knaggs

Kenneth John Knaggs was born on 9 January 1897 and was killed in action near Cambrai in France on 16 March 1918 whilst a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and attached to the Royal Flying Corps.


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