Loamshire Regiment is a

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used by the

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to provide examples for its procedures. For example, the Loamshire Regiment is provided by the

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to show how to write a British Army address, and is used to set out

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for violations of military law. It is used in

Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard Major Hesketh Vernon Prichard, later Hesketh-Prichard (17 November 1876 – 14 June 1922) was an explorer, adventurer, writer, big-game hunter, marksman and cricketer who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British A ...

's ''Sniping in France'', a World War One manual for training British Army sharpshooters. ;BFPO Specimen Address :12345678 LCPL B Jones :B Company :1 Loamshire Regt :BFPO 61 ;Specimen Charge The Loamshire Regiment can be taken to be the county regiment of the fictional county of Loamshire. The regiment itself has been featured in several works of fiction.

Bulldog Drummond Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper". Following McNeile's death in 1937, the novels were continued by Gerard Fairlie. Drummond is a First World War veteran who, ...

, the hero of the stories by "Sapper", was an officer in the Loamshire Regiment (in this case the 'Royal Loamshires') during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, as was one of the characters in ''

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ''The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'' is a 1943 British romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. ...

''. The regiment is also mentioned by

Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires ''Decli ...

in ''Men at Arms'', part of the

Sword of Honour The ''Sword of Honour'' is a trilogy of novels by Evelyn Waugh which loosely parallel Waugh's experiences during the Second World War. Published by Chapman & Hall from 1952 to 1961, the novels are: ''Men at Arms'' (1952); ''Officers and Gentl ...

trilogy, and ''

Put Out More Flags ''Put Out More Flags'', the sixth novel by Evelyn Waugh, was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1942. The title comes from the saying of an anonymous Chinese sage, quoted and translated by Lin Yutang in ''The Importance of Living'' (1937): ...

''. Loamshire is the setting for one of

George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wro ...

's novels, ''

Felix Holt, the Radical ''Felix Holt, the Radical'' (1866) is a social novel written by George Eliot about political disputes in a small English town at the time of the First Reform Act of 1832. In January 1868, Eliot penned an article entitled "Address to Working M ...

''. Peter Fleming, brother of Ian Fleming, refers to the regiment and the Loamshire Argos newspaper in his essay The Last Day in Camp.

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