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Rod Pratt & Jeff Hopkins-Weise. Brisbane's 1st Battalion, 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment Detachments, 1860-66.


Rod Pratt & Jeff Hopkins-Weise. Brisbane's 1st Battalion, 12th (East Suffolk East Suffolk, England: see Suffolk. ) Regiment Detachments, 1860-66, ISBN ISBN
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 0958084815, soft-cover, A5, 158 pp, $30 ($34 incl p&p)

Jeff Hopkins-Weise & Rod Pratt, Brisbane's 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment Detachments, 1866-69: and the Saint Helena Penal Establishment Military Guard, ISBN 0958084807, soft-cover, A5, 120 pp, $25 ($28 incl p&p)

These books represent the first scholarly attempt to examine the role of the British Army in Australian colonial society during the 1860s, and are the first in a planned ongoing series by these authors, the next being a study of the Royal Marine detachment at Somerset, Cope York, Queensland, 1864-67. Both Rod Pratt and Jeff Hopkins-Weise and MHSA MHSA Master of Health Services Administration (graduate degree)
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These books not only deal specifically with the experience and service of the detachments of the 12th and 50th Regiments in colonial Queensland during the years 1860 to 1869, but also include personnel who had previously seen service on the Victorian goldfields n. 1. A small slender woolly annual (Lasthenia chrysostoma) with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; it grows from Southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; - it is often cultivated.  during 1854 (including 6 soldiers of the 12th who were in Ballarat at the time of Eureka), while others assisted the defence of the civil order at the Lambing Flats goldfields disturbances in 1861-62. Other soldiers who served in Queensland, participated in the New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland.  wars during some of the various campaigns of the 1860s, and many personnel garrisoned in Brisbane, had also experienced distant postings such as Perth in Western Australia, Launceston and Hobart in Tasmania, Sydney in New South Wales New South Wales, state (1991 pop. 5,164,549), 309,443 sq mi (801,457 sq km), SE Australia. It is bounded on the E by the Pacific Ocean. Sydney is the capital. The other principal urban centers are Newcastle, Wagga Wagga, Lismore, Wollongong, and Broken Hill. , Victoria, and the North Island of New Zealand during the 1850s and 1860s.

Both publications are available from Rod Pratt, PO Box 386 Redcliffe, Qld 4020 (no credit cards)
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