Hi folks -

I'm looking for information concerning Victorian Honeymoon's during the Raj. My characters are an English Army Captain and an upper middle-class Anglo-Indian (modern interpretation) woman who is being fostered by an Army General with East India Company connections.

While I've founds heaps of information about Victorian Weddings -

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I've been trying to find out whether you could be an officer in the British Army if you were Jewish during this era ( Read more... )

when: early 1950s ( Read more... )

I am writing an AU set at the turn of the 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars. Part of the story concerns a journey on a British warship ( Read more... )

Setting: England, July/Early August of 1914, very beginning of World War I.

Terms Searched: Essentially, I searched for "horses" and "broken legs", "horses" "shooting injured horses", "World War I" got some of what I was looking for: I found articles that discussed how injured/suffering horses were dealt with in WWI and general information on why ( Read more... )

I've googled and wikipedia'd various combinations of "british army," "officers," "victorian," "daily life," "19th century," and the like, and while I've been able to find all sorts of information about British army life for regular soldiers, I'm coming up short for officers beyond the fact that most were from aristocratic backgrounds. Specifically ( Read more... )

I've been researching the British Navy for a Napolenonic War-era novel and I've found a lot of resources for the various details I'll need to know, but there's one thing I've had trouble finding. Is there a legitimate reason for the officers of a ship to be ashore for any significant length of time? "Shore leave" apparently wasn't a thing during ( Read more... )

During the various battles of the Ypres Salient in WWI, were the trenches making up the salient occupied year-round? Meaning, were they occupied for the entire time after the 1st battle up to the 2nd, etc?
I'm going to assume the answer is a 'yes,' but I just want to make sure, and Google isn't really giving me anything. I want my characters to be ( Read more... )

I have two... rather unusual... questions about the Battle of Agincourt ( Read more... )

Hi!

I desperately need figures on female POWs in Japanese captivity in World War II. I've been scouring the net but not even on Wikipedia I seem to be able to find a site the lists figures for how many female POWs there were and which nationalities they were of, maybe even broken down to the individual camps (but just numbers and nationalities would ( Read more... )