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mike snook 2
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 Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:02 pm |
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Clive
 Thank you so much - such kind words makes all the lonely hours hunched over the keyboard more than worthwhile. I'm sorry for not acknowledging your message earlier, but for some reason, (probably good old-fashioned 'inattention' on my part), I just haven't seen it before now. I'm going to see my publisher next week to discuss a range of new projects, so I'm not yet sure what will be next.
Scorer,
'...as we that are left grow old.'
I never was the dashing one my friend - even less so when, shortly after the period in question, I played at university and then RMAS. The dashing one at the other end in those far-distant Sandhurst days was one Matt Fleming, so that my main object in life became not getting killed by the lofted straight drives whistling past my head at the non-striker's end!! Man, you've never seen a bloke hit it so hard!! I hung up the willow 20 or so years later, after captaining the last Army Staff College XI (before we moved to a 'joint' staff college system) to an undefeated final season -aided, it must be said, by a No 3 batsman who averaged over 100 in the season. So, when he was at the crease, my job was to stick it away for a single off the first ball of the over - hardly very dashing eh....the man who made a whole cricketing career out of the leg glance for one! Interesting bit of historical trivia connecting Victorian military history with cricket (!) - the first captain of Staff College cricket was from the Welch Regiment - and I was the last. Nothing like keeping it in the family eh?!
AMB,
I don't know about 'hanging' all that green stuff up. These days it's all I can do to pick it up! Is it just me or are the flak jackets getting distinctly mediaeval. No wonder we have to do all that tiresome running about stuff these days - nobody ever lived to their late 40s in the Middle Ages!
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You won't even have to grit your teeth to read this one.....he only gets a little mention. (Nothing bad!). Enjoy. You'll like the Maiwand chapter I think. And here's a little historical secret all of your own [sod's law says you only ever run these things to earth, the week after it's all gone off to the printer]. I have repeated the generally accepted 'fact' that all three officers called Monteith at Maiwand were unrelated. Draw closer....in fact, [I had my suspicions on grounds of unlikely coincidence but could never prove it until now] two of them were brothers. Don't tell anybody!
Regards
Mike
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| Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:42 pm |
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Mike
A book, devoted only to Maiwand, in the same mould of HCMDB would be excellent, as it is a battle less-known, and a story to be told.
I'm sure the chapter in ITJOD will cover it well, but I seem to recall mention, that it could be covered much more fully in a whole book.
Even better, if the C.O.I. transcript was discovered and could be included, as well as Burrows portrait.
What reading that would be ! 
Only a suggestion, as I think it is obvious I have a personal interest in this specific engagement.
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