Battery Records of the Royal Artillery 1716-1877

[Gunner771]

I have recently been in contact with the Royal Artillery Historical Trust about the possibility of producing a CD version of Lt. Col. Laws books, The Battery Records of the Royal Artillery. I provided them with a digital photo copy of these books and they are looking at how best to do this as we post. I hope it will prove to be as useful to everyone as it was to me in my research.
Gunner771

[scrimnet]

Nice one muckker...

[Gunner771]

Kind of you to say. Fingers crossed it comes off, they were also talking of adding the many corrections that Lt. Col Laws found were needed after publication, these have never been published.
Gunner771

[scrimnet]

I have a good friend who is a "drop short" at Whitehall and he will be very interested in this!

[Gunner771]

Drop short  , I like that, better than the Brill Cream or Crab we used to get. I truly hope it goes ahead, I hope I didn't get their hopes up with the quality of the digital photos. It is far from perfect, but more than usable, and is a precious resource. If you can get the books, long out of print, they are very expensive. The only problem I can see is there might be incompatibility with the file format I used. In that case they might have to re-jig it into a more friendly set up. I had it set up in Windows Picture Manager and it worked quite well, but I don't know if that is accessable to all users. To be honest some of it is over my head  , but no doubt a computer wiz could say abracadabra and sort it in a jiff. Time will tell.