Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry/operations Across The Empire 1881-1914

Famous quotes containing the words light, operations and/or empire:

    “When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
    —Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)

    “Keep our Empire undismembered
    Guide our Forces by Thy Hand,
    Gallant blacks from far Jamaica,
    Honduras and Togoland;
    Protect them Lord in all their fights,
    And, even more, protect the whites.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)