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BIRDWOOD (FM Lord)
Khaki & Gown: An Autobiography.
Foreword by Winston Churchill. 1st Ed., 456pp., portrait frontis., 16 plates, 5 maps. Ward, Lock & Co.
1941
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GOC ANZAC Corps 1915-18, much on Gallipoli - including the conception, planning & course of the operations - & France. Earlier in the XI Bengal Lancers: Black Mountain, Tirah, Mohmand, Boer War, &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, contemp. Christmas gift inscrip. o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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DAVID (Saul)
The Bengal Army & The Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.
1st Ed., 399pp., 39 tables. VG in dw. Delhi: Manohar.
2009
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Scholarly study of the Sepoys' grievances over pay & conditions, career prospects & relations between the enlisted men & their British officers. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£15
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HOLLINGS (Mary Alnright) Ed.
The Life of Sir Colin C. Scott-Moncrieff, KCSI, KCMG, RE &c.)
1st Ed., xii+374pp., portrait frontis., 21 illus. John Murray.
1917
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Biography based on reminiscences & letters edited by Scott-moncrieff's niece. He was ed. at Addiscombe, entered Bengal Engineers 1856 & retired as a Colonel in 1883. Served in the Mutiny in the campaign in Oudh &c., with Irrigation Dept in NW Province, Chief Engineer in Burma, then PWD in Egypt & Sudan 1883-92 (CSI for famine relief work in Madras 1878-79). Cloth stained/worn but sound & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£25
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HUNTER (Sir William)
The Thackerays in India, & Some Calcutta Graves.
1st Ed., 191pp. Henry Frowde.
1897
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Anglo-Indian family in the days of the HEIC, mainly in the Bengal Civil Service. Orig. cloth, sp. darkened/tanned o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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MACPHERSON (W.C., CSI) Ed.
Soldiering in India 1764-1787: Extracts from Journals & Letters left by Lt. Colonel Allan Macpherson & Lt. Colonel John Macpherson of the East India Company's Service.
1st Ed., xxi+413pp., 5 plates, 3 fldg. maps. Blackwood.
1928
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Military service including the two subjects' journals of Rohilcund & Oudh, Rohilla Campaigns 1772-73 & 1774, further Mahratta Wars service &c. Much interesting first-hand journal accounts of these campaigns. Orig. red cloth, gilt to front & sp., sp. gilt dulled o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£120
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PEARSON (Lt. G.) Comp.
Brief History of the K.G.V.'s Own Bengal Sappers & Miners Group, R.I.E. (August 1939-July 1946).
1st Ed., [viii]+153pp., 11 photos., 11 fldg. maps. No imprint. Roorkee.
1947
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Excellent history of Field Coys. of the Bengal S&M group, Royal Indian Engineers, plus roll of awards (by Field Companies). "A detailed account of the Corps' activities in the Western Desert, Malaya, Burma & Italy. This is the closest the the Bengal S&M ever came tp producing a conventional record of their services. It was certainly a considerable improvement on its predecessors." - Perkins 437. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed & worn, near VG & rare in any condition. See illustration on our website.
£245
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TINSLEY (Terence)
Stick & String.
1st Ed., 128pp., 14 illus., 2 ep maps. VG in dw. Buckland Publications.
1992
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Scarce (privately published?) WW2 Burma memoirs of service with 73 Indian Field Coy., Bengal Sappers & Miners, inc. all three of the Arakan campaigns. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£45
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WILLIAMS (Capt. John)
An Historical Account of the Rise & Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry from its First Formation in 1757, to 1796... Together with a Detail of the Services of which the several Battalions have been Employed during that Period.
Facsimile reprint of 1817 1st Ed., 388pp., col. frontis. VG in dw. Muller.
1970
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A history of each regiment, its raising & campaign services. Reprint of rare original edition. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£25
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