BURNE Major

G H P The Leicestershire Militia in South Africa.
Leicester: Clarke and Satchell, 1902. vii and 116 pages. Illustrated.
The front cover is illustrated in colour on page 93 of R G Hackett's South African War Books. The 3rd Leicestershire Battalion reached Cape Town as late as April 1902 and was employed in small detachments along the blockhouse line.

CANNON R
Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot; containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848. Compiled by Richard Cannon Esq., Adjutant-General's Office.
London: Parker Furnivall and Parker, 1848. xxxi1 and 56 pages.

CHILTON A
'Come On Tigers,' being the story of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment 1688-1955.
Morecambe: Morecambe Bay Printers, 1955. 154 pages (mainly adverts). Illustrated.

GILBERT S
Rhodesia and After being the story of the 17th and 18th Battalions of Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa. By Sharrad H Gilbert, 65th Squadron IY.
London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent, 1901. 350 pages. 48 plates, 3 maps.
65th IY was a Leicestershire contingent. There were also Leicestershire men serving in Dunraven's Sharpshooters (67th, 70th, 71st and 75th companies).

HILLS Captain J D
The Fifth Leicestershire - a record of the 1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment TF during the war, 1914-1919.
Loughborough: The Echo Press, 1919. x and 380 pages. Illustrated.

JAMIE Lt Colonel J W P
The 177th Brigade 1914-1918.
Leicester: by W Thornley and Sons, 1931. 73 pages. Illustrated.
2/4th and 2/5th Leicestershire.

Leicestershire Regiment
Notes on the History of the Leicestershire Regiment.
Jhansi: Albion Press, 1923. 20 pages.

Leicestershire Regiment
Short History of the Leicestershire Regiment 1688-1955.
Morecambe: Morcambe Bay Printers, 1955. 16 pages.

Leicestershire Regiment
History and Traditions of the Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot).
Aldershot: Gale and Polden, (1939). 16 pages.

Leicestershire Regiment
A Pictorial History and Souvenir of the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, Belgaum, India, 1907.
London: London Art Company, 1907. 31 pages. Illustrated,

Leicestershire Regiment
1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment C Wing - pre-OCTU training establishment, Wrotham Camp - souvenir brochure.
(Aldershot: Gale and Polden, (1914). 19 pages. Illustrated.

MILNE Captain John
Footprints of the 1/4th Leicestershire Regiment, August 1914 to November 1918.
Leicester: Edgar Backus, 1935. xii and 158 pages. Illustrated.

(PALMER P D S)
The Colours of the 17th or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot.
Aldershot: Gale and Polden, (1930). vii and 48 pages. Frontispiece of the regimental chapel, 11 illustrations of colours on 6 plates. Wrappers.

THOMAS Captain William
Freemasonry in the Leicestershire (17th) Regiment of Foot. (Paper read at the 197th meeting of the Lodge of Research, Leicester, 28/3/1927).
Leicester: without imprint, (1927). 24 pages. 2 plates.

WEBB E
A History of the Services of the 17th (The Leicestershire) Regiment containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services, revised and continued to 1910. By Lt-Colonel E A H Webb (formerly of the regiment).
London: Vacher, 1911. xxvii and 322 pages. 35 plates (9 colour plates of uniforms and 2 of colours), 6 text illustrations.
Ogilby Index 956. Webb's history of the 17th is the best that is available. It is essentially a revision of the Cannon Record with the addition of relevant passages from the London Gazette and other despatches.
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WYLLY Colonel H C
History of the 1st and 2nd Battalions the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great War.
Aldershot: Gale and Polden, (1928). vii and 215 pages. Illustrated.

UNDERHILL Brigadier W
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, 17th Foot, a history of the years 1928 to 1956.
Leicester: for the Regiment, 1958. x and 277 pages. Illustrated.

BARTHORP M
Crater to the Creggan - the history of the Royal Anglian Regiment 1964-74.
London: Leo Cooper, 1976. 160 pages. Illustrated.

MEREDITH J
Omdurman Diaries 1898.
Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books, 1998. 272 pages. Illustrated.
From the diaries of four participants. The main diarists are Private Teigh and Lieutenant S F Cox of the Leicesters.

MOORE Christopher
Trench Fever.
Boston: Little Brown And Co., 1998. 1st edn. x and 238 pages.
Private with 5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment on the Western Front.

O'MALLEY J
Life of James O'Malley late Corporal, 17th Leicestershire Regiment, 'Royal Bengal Tigers' edited by himself.
Montreal: Desaulnier's Printing Co., 1893. 192 pages. Small 8vo. Mainly Crimea.

THOMPSON Edward J
Beyond Baghdad with the Leicesters. London: Epworth Press, 1919. 156 pages. 2 sketch maps.

RICHARDSON Matthew

The Tigers

The history of the (World War One) 6th, 7th, 8th, & 9th (Service) Battalions, The Leicestershire Regiment.

Pen & Sword Books. 2000. ISBN 0 85052 719-8.

288 Pages, Inc. 200+ photographs.