The latest issue of the Victorian Military Society’s SOTQ (Soldiers of the Queen) arrived by post on Saturday, and I managed to read it yesterday.

The articles included in this issue are:

• The Egyptian Army at the Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898 by Dr Keith Surridge
• The Fleischer Omdurman Panorama by Professor Ian F W Becken
• Clash of Empires – The 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
• Templar Study Centre at the National Army Museum
• An Irregular Local Corps in the Presidency of Bombay, 1825-100 by David Howell
• Thirty Years with the Colours by Tim Rose
• Index to main topics – Part One (of Three) Soldiers of the Queen (Journal of the Victorian Military Society) by volume number (Volumes 1 – 186)
• Book Reviews by Roger T Stearn and Adrian Greaves
• Officers of the Victorian Military Society

As usual, there was lots to interest anyone with even a passing interest in Britain’s military history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One thing that will be extremely useful to me is the index, and although I do not have access to every copy of SOTQ that has been published, knowing where a particular article is will help me in any research I may wish toi undertake in the future.

The annual cost of membership of the Victorian Military Society is:

• UK: £30.00
• Overseas: £40.00 [except for Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore: £43.00])

As I have written many time before, in my opinion it is well worth it.