North Lincoln Sphinx

The North Lincoln Sphinx was a newsletter recording the activities of the officers and men of the Second Battalion of the 10th North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot. The newsletter was "PRINTED AT THE REGIMENTAL PRESS".

The front page masthead consisted of a drawing of an Egyptian Sphinx with the French motto: "Nous Travaillerond en l’ Esperance" - (We will work in hope.)

VOL. 1. NO. 1., was headed CURRAGH CAMP IRELAND, and is dated 1st JANUARY 1860. Inside this first edition it was sub-titled GRAHAMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 4th AUGUST, 1860., and carried the following explanation: “It was originally intended that the first number of the North Lincoln Sphinx, should have made its appearance with the Ides of January; but the move of the Regiment from Ireland to the Cape of Good Hope, effectually prevented that intention from being carried out; and it was not until July that we had consummated our arrangements and placed the manuscripts in the printer’s hands.

“These circumstances will account for the two dates, under which the present number appears.

“The first five pages contain the matter that was to have been printed at the commencement of the year, and the remainder is a chronological record of the principal events in the History of the Second Battalion from its formation, to the 1st of August 1861, with a brief notice of such occurrences as may have differed from the ordinary routine of our life, during the four months and a half of our residence in Cape Colony.”

Copies of the newsletter were sent all over the world to wherever the British military forces were stationed.

Source

North Lincoln Sphinx, Vol 1, No 1. 1859/60.