Loamshire Regiment is a placeholder name

Placeholder name

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 used by the British Army

British Army

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

British Forces Post Office

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 to show how to write a British Army address, and is used to set out specimen charges for violations of military law. It is used in Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard

Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard

Major Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard, DSO, MC, FRGS, FZS was an explorer, adventurer, big-game hunter and marksman who made a significant contribution to sniping practice within the British Army during the First World War...

's Sniping in France, a World War One manual for training British Army sharpshooters.

BFPO Specimen Address

12345678 LCPL B Jones

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1 Loamshire Regt

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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

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond is a British fictional character, created by "Sapper", a pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile , and the hero of a series of novels published from 1920 to 1954.- Drummond :...

, the hero of the stories by "Sapper"

H. C. McNeile

Cyril McNeile MC was a British author, who published under the pen name Sapper.He was one of the most successful British popular authors of the Interwar period; his principal character was Bulldog Drummond.-Biography:Cyril McNeile was born in 1888 at Bodmin in Cornwall...

, was an officer in the Loamshire Regiment (in this case the 'Royal Loamshires') during the First World War, as was one of the characters in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 film by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David...

. The regiment is also mentioned by Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...

 in Men at Arms, part of the Sword of Honour

Sword of Honour

The Sword of Honour trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is his look at the Second World War. It consists of three novels, Men at Arms , Officers and Gentlemen and Unconditional Surrender , which loosely parallel his wartime experiences...

 trilogy, and Put Out More Flags

Put Out More Flags

Put Out More Flags, the sixth novel by Evelyn Waugh, was first published by Chapman and Hall in 1942. The novel is set during the first year of the Second World War, and follows the wartime activities of characters introduced in Waugh's earlier satirical novels Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies and...

. Loamshire is also the setting for one of George Eliot

George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans , better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era...

's lesser known novels, Felix Holt, the Radical, written in 1865-6, a romance set in 1832 after the passing of the Great Reform Act brought new voters and new ideas to the political scene in the Midlands.