I was asked to write the final volume of the Regimental
History Volume VII -
Yield To None, and the Photographic History, by the
Regimental Secretary -
Major C.M.J. Deedes, and the other two books were produced
with his full
approval. The following list is in order of publication
and all are
available from the KOYLI Regimental Museum which is
house in the
Doncaster Museum, Chequer Road. DONCASTER, DN1 2AE Tel:
01302-734293
The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1857
- 1968 A Photographic History.
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Tempus Pub. Ltd. Stroud
2000
£9.99
Available form : - Regimental Museum,
Doncaster Museum
Saturday Soldiers The Territorial Battalions of the
KOYLI 1908-1919
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Doncaster Museum Services
2004
£12.50 p&p £3.50
Available from: - Regimental Museum
Doncaster Museum
Yield To None History of the King’s Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry Volume VII
1945 - 1968
Author: Malcolm K. Johnson
Pub: Propagator Press, AMS Educational Ltd, 28 Parkside
Road, LEEDS, LS6
4NB
(Tel: 0113 275 9900)
2005
£12.95
Available from : - The publishers (p&p incl.) :
Regimental Museum : or
ordered from any retail outlet.
MALAYAN TALES OF THE YORKSHIRE
LIGHT INFANTRY by John Scurr. This book
is not intended to be a history of the KOYLI in Malaya.
It is simply a collection of soldiers' stories, told
by the men who lived them. The author and those that
survived, looking back, can think of no other time
in their lives that can compare with those years in
Malaya for richness of experience, good or bad, or
for wealth of comradeship. HC, 175pp, illus., pub
1997, Pentland.
Look at the King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry Museum - Publisher Bessacarr Prints,
Published 31 October 1987.
FIGHTING TYKES: The Yorkshire
Regiments in World War II by Charles Whiting
and Eric Taylor. Included are the histories of: the
Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; the East Riding
Yeomanry; the York and Lancaster Regiment; the Duke
of Wellingtons Regiment; East Yorkshire Regiment;
Green Howards; West Yorkshire Regiment. SC, illus.,238pp,
pub. 1993, Leo Cooper.
COOPER, LEONARD (Famous Regiments)
KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
1970. Leo Cooper, 1st edn, 125pp, Introduction by
Lt Gen Sir Brian Horrocks. This volume provides the
complete history and combat achievements of the 51st
and 105th Regiments of Foot from Waterloo, the two
World Wars to pursuing Mau Mau terrorists in post-war
Kenya.
ELLENBERGER, BRIG. G F MC HISTORY
OF THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY 1961.
Gale and Polden, 1st edn, 184pp, Order of Battle,
maps. Vol. VI 1939 - 1945. The bulk of the book describes
the action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and North
West Europe by the 1st, 1/4th and 2/4th Battalions.
WYLLY, COL. H.C. HISTORY OF
THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY nd (c 1920).
HUMPHRIES, 1st edn, viii + 374 pp, maps, ills. Volume
one from the raising of the Regiment in 1755 up to
Afghanistan in 1881.
WYLLY, COL. H.C. HISTORY OF
THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY 1950.
PRIVATELY PUB, 1st edn, xvi + 243 pp, ills, maps,
pb. Volume V from 1919 through to 1942, subtitled
Never Give Up.
A Short History
of The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (51st and
105th) 1755-1965. The Wakefield Express Series
Ltd., Express House, Southgate, Wakefield. 36 pages.
Map of KOYLI overseas service, 1757-1965.
A Short
History Of
The King's
Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry,1755-1928"...
printer by
W.Mc.GOWAN, Corn
Market,
Pontefract.1929...
30 pages,
2 phtographs
HARLAND, MAJOR G.C.W. THE
WAR HISTORY OF THE 1/4TH BN. THE K.O.Y.L.I.
1987. PRIVATELY PUBLISHED, rpt, 31 pp, pb. The war
history of The 1/4th Battalion The King's Own Yorkshire
Light Infantry in WWII.
WHEATER, W A RECORD OF THE
SERVICES OF THE FIFTY-FIRST 1870. LONGMANS,
1st edn, iv + 277 pp, cond vg, spine slightly torn,
new end papers. A record of the services of the Fifty-First
(Second West York,) the King's Own Light Infantry
Regiment. With a list of officers from 1755 to 1870.
Wheeler, William, edited and with a foreword by Captain
B.H. Liddell Hart. LETTERS
OF PRIVATE WHEELER. Boston 1952, Houghton
Mifflin, 1st US ed. 6x9, 342 pp, end paper maps. Excellent
memoirs of a British soldier of the 51st Foot ( King's
Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ), from 1809 to 1828,
he served in the ill-fated Walcheren expedition, then
thru Wellington's Peninsular campaigns and also at
Waterloo in 1815. He retired in 1828 from the army,
having risen to Sgt
DEEDES, G.P.. THE KING'S OWN LIGHT INFANTRY REGISTER
OF OFFICERS. A register of Officers who have served
on a Regular Commission in the Regiment since its
formation on the 19th December 1755 until the end
of the war on 15th August 1945. nd (c 1946). LUND
HUMPHRIES, 1st edn, 247 pp,
A continuation of the historical records of the
First Regiment of militia or Third West York Light
Infantry, now the Third Battalion York and Lancaster
Regiment, from 1875 to 1905 Author: Broughton,
E. C. (Ernest Chamier), 1858- Publisher: W. Clowes.
A record of the services of the fifty-first (second
West York), the "King's own light infantry"
Regiment: with a list of officers from 1755 to 1870.
Author: Wheater, William. Publisher: Longmans,
Green.
History of the Kings's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
-- Publisher: P. Lund, Humphries,
The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (the
51st and 105th Regiments of Foot). Author: Cooper,
Leonard. Publisher: Leo Cooper
The life of a regimental officer during the great
war, 1793-1815. Compiled from the correspondence of
Colonel Samuel Rice, C.B., K.H. 51st Light Infantry,
and from other sources. Author: Mockler-Ferryman,
Augustus Ferryman, 1856- Publisher: Blackwood,
The records of the Third Battalion, Prince of
Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment : late Second
West York Light Infantry Militia. Author: Hay,
G. I. Publisher: The Regiment],
Hingston, LT-Col Walter Never Give Up, The History
of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1919-1942,
Volume V London: Lund Humphries & Company,
1950 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" 243 pages, maps, illustrations
illustrations by Major J Dugmore., covers India &
Burma, Phoney war, Norway, French defeat and the tragedy
in Burma.
RAIKES, Captain G. A. Historical Records or the
First Regiment of Militia; or, Third West York Light
Infantry. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1876.
xvi, 334pp, [1]pp errata. Chromo frontis, 7 plts.
David, Saul.: Mutiny At Salerno. An Injustice
Exposed. Brassey's, London. lst edition 1995 Hardback.
In late Sept 1943 nearly 200 veterans of Monty's 8th
army were arrested for refusing to join units of the
US 5th Army at the Salerno beachhead in S. Italy.
Within 6 weeks all but one had been found guilty of
mutiny, their sentences ranging from 5 years penal
servitude to death. Fifty years on, military historian
David Saul, gaining access to the court marshal papers
exposes the injustices and provides a compelling case
for a Royal Pardon. 217 pps. The book then concludes
with an open letter to the Secretary of State for
Defence, (2 pps) + Appendix, + biblio, + Chapter notes
and sources, + index. A sad, compelling and very necessary
book.