Acknowledgements and links
I
should like to record my debt of thanks to Doug Arman, James Arthur,
Jim Coffey, Graham
Cooper, Stuart Eastwood, Robin Gaine, Paul Gainey, Leo Goodstadt,
Alison Healey,
Peter Hunter, J.
Kelsey,
Euan Marley, Ange Morton, Richard Ounsworth, Dennis Pillinger and The
Military Historical Society, Tony
Rattigan, Seamus
Rochford, and the
staff
of the National Archives, the British Library, the National Army
Museum, the Imperial War Museum,
the
National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, and the
Edinburgh Family Record Centre of
the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Quotations
in chapters 1, 10, 12 and 21 from
Queen Victoria’s Journal, Royal
Archives, are
made with the permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The principal documents relating to the story of William Coffey held in the National Archives and quoted or used as sources in this website are: MINT 21/7; WO 12/4919-4924, 8164-8165, 8172, 8635-8641, 8649-8656, 8659-8660; 13/256-257, 1395; 23/60, 84; 67/14; 97/1629; 100/375; 102/2; 116/96.
The
words and music of ‘Private William Coffey’
are reproduced with the
permission of
Graham Cooper.
Several other sources are indicated in the text of this
website, but I should
also
mention the importance of:
P.
E. Abbott, Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal 1855-1909
(1975)
M.
J. Crook, The Evolution of the Victoria Cross (1975)
S.
David, The Indian Mutiny 1857 (2002)
C. G. Gardyne, The
Life of a Regiment (1903)
E.
Garner, To die by inches: the famine in north east Cork (1988)
R.
Holmes, Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
(2001)
S.
P. Jarvis, Historical Record of the Eighty-Second Regiment (1866)
S.
Johnson, From Bailey to Bailey: a short history of military
buildings in
Sheffield (1988)
G.
Noakes, A Historical Account of the Service of the 34th
Regiment
(1875)
T.
Royle, Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854-1856 (1999)
Every
effort has been made to acknowledge the sources used in the creation of
this website, and any omissions that are discovered will be corrected.
The text of this website is © Copyright Simon Gaine 2005
and may not be reproduced without permission.
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