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Commonknowledge: Letters Home from the Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign (Military Memoirs) by Richard Temple Godman
Commonknowledge: Letters Home from the Crimea: A Young Cavalryman's Campaign (Military Memoirs) by Richard Temple Godman | LibraryThing Added details for this book at LibraryThing. #Reading #Letters #Books #Autobiographies #War #History #LibraryThing
“"My journal would have given lots of information to the Crimean commission," - TEMPLE GODMAN May 15 1856”
“Oh no ! May 15 1856 - Temple left all his stuff at Hayda Pasha's Barracks and there was a fire that consumed all his journals and sketches.”
“"Join the Army - See the World". 1856 and Temple Godman's touring "Troy", Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo, Alexandria - witnessing”
“"I see during the night the brown horse has bitten a bit out of my chestnut horse's nose,..." - TEMPLE GODMAN 17 Nov 1855 #Crimea #Horses”
“"our sap was enfiladed...they got up ten gabions" - TEMPLE GODMAN Nov 12 1855 Um, pardon, Sir ? #Language #Words #Vocabulary #NoIdeaMatey”
“Temple wishes people who were not cut out for being cut up would return to civilian status - makes me think how EXTREME conscription is”
“"the Greeks are generally very pretty, but so absurdly shy, one can only see them by taking them by surprise." - TEMPLE GODMAN 6 Oct 1855”
“Sep 10 1855 Temple is referring to new officers (I think they BUY their rank) as "children" HE is 23 without "drill or discipline". #Crimea”
“Yep. Richard Temple Godman would've been 47 years old when "The Pirates of Penzance" was first staged. #Gilbert #Sullivan #Musicals #Theatre”
Grossmith as Gen Stanley.jpg
File:Grossmith as Gen Stanley.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1879. So it's Crimean Vet's that'd be bein' ribbed/tickled/ticked off. This one has Temple's tache & Rik Mayall's face. #Crimea #Lookalikes #Musicals #Lyrics #History #Uniforms
“I think Temple Godman was a career soldier, I think it was his choice. The Schools' Programme gives it a lot of WW1 rounded up coating.”
“Real sense of atmosphere and IMMEDIACY with Temple Godman's letters from the Crimea. They pre-date military CENSORSHIP...”
“"...I think they will funk to cross swords with us after their licking." - TEMPLE GODMAN Nov 2 1854 #Slang #Eton #Schoolboy #Army #Crimea”
“"Later in the day the Light Brigade charged down a valley, they had no business to have gone there,..." - TEMPLE GODMAN Nov 2 1854 #Quotes”
“Hmm. I think Richard Temple Godman is 22 years old in this position and set to spend the evening "reading service" over a cholera patient.”
“Temple Godman is recounting how, as an Adjutant, he is set to oversee the 50 lash flogging of a soldier by farriers who must do it "hard"...”
“Strange food Temple acquires as he starts 2 swelter (07 1854) - raw onions and honeycomb. Getting shot @ by locals #LettersHomefromtheCrimea”
“Temple Godman's first Crimean letter has him on-board a storm-struck ship, horses terrified, almost every man sea-sick #CrimeanWar”
