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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS TO THE JOURNAL John C. Carbis IEng AMICE FICW FInstRE, is currently a Chelsea Pensioner, having served for over 23 years in the Corps of Royal Engineers, both in military and civilian construction at a senior supervisory role. After leaving the British Army in 1970 he continued to work in a variety of construction roles, as Project Manager, Site Engineer, both in the United Kingdom and the Middle East. He is a family historian, and an author of a number of follow-up publications about Battlefield Studies, from Arnhem to Salamanca, and the last a Normandy Sapper. On a lighter note ‘ Them in Scarlet – Those Chelsea Pensioners – is a story of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea with anecdotal notes. Andrew Cormack FSA, FRHistS worked in military museums throughout his career. He edited The Journal of Corporal William Todd, 1745-1762 for the Army Records Society and has been a regular contributor to the JSAHR on whose Council he has served since 1989. He became the Honorary Editor in July 2008. He was awarded his PhD for a study of the Out-pension of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea in 2017, which was published as ‘ These Meritorious Objects of the Royal Bounty’; The Chelsea Out-Pensioners in the Early Eighteenth Century . It was a runner- up in the Society’s Templer Medal Book Prize for 2017. Douglas R. Dorney Jr. is a licensed, professional architect, specialising in the design and construction of Higher Education, Research, Science, and Technological buildings. He is an independent researcher with a particular interest in the American Militia battles with the British Army during the American War for Independence. His other work has appeared in the on-line Journal of the American Revolution . He wishes to thank Drs. Wade G. Dudley and Jake Ruddiman for their insights on the present work and to Don N. Hagist for his encouragement to submit to the Journal. Frederick Hyde is currently studying for an MA in War Studies at King’s College London. His forthcoming dissertation will focus on popular perceptions of the British Army in the mid-nineteenth century. He recently graduated from Durham University with a BA in History. His undergraduate dissertation, entitled ‘‘Glory to the British Flag’: Palmerston and the 1857 General Election in the North East’, was published in the Durham County Local History Society Journal . While at Durham, he sought to promote collaboration between the SAHR and the Durham Union Society. In 2017, he was awarded First Prize in the SAHR Schools essay competition.

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