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Diary of the 2/4th Battalion The Border Regiment, 1914-19. 1st Ed., 39pp., 4to. Carlisle: Thurnam & Sons, Printers. 1920  #67395
[HLMainPic] Served India inc. ops. on the NWF in 1917 & Afghanistan 1919. Rolls of officers & NCOs, those died, wounded &c. (mainly attd. to units in Mespot.). Orig. green morocco (superior edition), gilt, VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. Vol. XXIX. 1885. Vol. XXVII consisting of four quarterly editions published during 1885. 1218pp., in all, + plates, maps & sketches (many fldg.). RUSI. Contemp.  #65425
[HLMainPic] The premier forum of its time for articles on campaigns & theory, Naval & Military Notes, announcements of new publications, book reviews, notes on military manoeuvres &c. The volume offered here includes articles on a wide range of issues & technical developments in the British & other armies inc. articles such as The Russo-Afghan Frontier; The French Railway Corps; The Organization of Camel Corps in Warfare; Soudan Warfare, &c. Contemp. half morocco, somewhat rubbed & worn, generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £35
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. Vol. XXVII. 1883. Vol. XXVII consisting of four quarterly editions published during 1883. 838pp., in all, + plates, maps & sketches (many fldg.). RUSI. Contemp.  #65424
[HLMainPic] The premier forum of its time for articles on campaigns & theory, Naval & Military Notes, announcements of new publications, book reviews, notes on military manoeuvres &c. The volume offered here includes articles on a wide range of issues & technical developments in the British & other armies inc. articles such as Cyprus as a Strategical Position; The Effect of the Bombardment of the Forts of Alexandria, July 11, 1882; The Russo-Turkish Frontier in Asia Minor; Machine Guns; Military Ballooning &c. Contemp. half morocco, somewhat rubbed & worn, generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £35
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution. Vol. XXX. 1886. Vol. XXX consisting of four quarterly editions published during 1886. 1250pp., in all, + Appendix, + plates, maps & sketches (many fldg.). RUSI. Contemp.  #65448
[HLMainPic] The premier forum of its time for articles on campaigns & theory, Naval & Military Notes, announcements of new publications, book reviews, notes on military manoeuvres &c. The volume offered here (which is bound in two parts) includes articles on a wide range of issues & technical developments in the British & other armies inc. articles such as The Field Telegraph, its Use in War & its Employment in the late Expeditions in the Soudan & South Africa; Mounted Infantry (by Maj. E.T.H. Hutton, KRRC, late commanding Mounted Infantry in Egypt), &c. Bound in two vols., contemp. half morocco, somewhat rubbed & worn, generally sound. See illustration on our website.   £40
Manual of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India. Army Headquarters, India. 1925. [iii]+v+88pp. Calcutta: Govt. of India, Central Publication Branch. 1925  #68615
Pocket manual on characteristics of fighting on the frontier: attack, withdrawal, camp discipline &c. Orig. red printed cloth covd. boards, VG with contemp. ownership inscrip. of C.R. Buchanan, Royal Scots Fusiliers. See illustration on our website.   £75
One-inch Sheet No. 38 O/13. N.W. Frontier Province. Cherat. Scale. 1 Inch to 1 Mile. Coloured fldg. paper map, 44x58cm approx., buff card covs. to front & rear, the front with title as above. Heliozincographed at the Survey of India Offices, Calcutta, Published under the direction of Col. S.G. Burrard, CSI, RE, FRS, Surveyor General of India. 1913  #66242
[HLMainPic] Good scale map of the Cherat region (Peshawar District & Tribal Territory) from Aza Khel Bala & Nowshera in the north, down to Spela Mela &c. in the south. VG, nice clean example. See illustrations on our website.   £65
Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India. 1st Ed., x+187pp., 31 plates (many fldg.), 8 fldg. panoramas, 3 fldg. maps in text, 3 fldg. maps in end-pocket. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing. 1921  #64034
[HLMainPic] The scarce CONFIDENTIAL official account (including operations 1860-1920, with considerable detail on the little-known 1917 campaign) with valuable orders of battle &c. Individually numbered "Serial No. 301" but total no. produced is unknown to us. Orig. three-qtr. calf, green cloth, claret sp labels, gilt, the leather a little rubbed, stained & worn as always but overall VG, good copy & complete, with contemp. ink ownership inscrip. of "J.C.R. Gannon Major AMS Personal to C in C." (Note: Gannon appointed AMS [Personal] to Lord Rawlinson of Trent, 21/11/1920. He served in the Waziristan Campaign & was Mentioned in Despatches). See illustration on our website.   £350
Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920. (Second Edition). Compiled by the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India. 2nd Ed., viii+194pp., 31 plates (many fldg.), 8 fldg. panoramas, 4 fldg. maps in text, 3 fldg. maps in end-pocket. Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing. 1923  #66211
[HLMainPic] The second & very much scarcer edition of this official account, which "cancels the previous (1921) edition, copies of which should be destroyed." As background the work includes operations 1860-1920, with considerable detail on the little-known 1917 campaign, with valuable orders of battle &c. The edition here offered is presumably amended &/or corrected, as its supersedes the original edition. It should not be confused with the cheaper edition issued without most of the maps & plans. Modern blue cloth, gilt title to sp., complete with all maps & plans (one additional to the 1st Edition) including 3 in endpocket. See illustration on our website.   £250
The Story of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, 41st Dogras, Volume I. October 1900 to December 1923 & October 1917 to March 1922. Compiled from the Digest of Services & Other Sources by Officers of the Regiment. 1st Ed., [ix]+146+xpp., portrait frontis., 10 plates, 5 fldg. maps. Printed by Thacker & Co. Ltd, Bombay, For Private Circulation Only. nd (c.1935). 1935  #64620
[HLMainPic] 41st Dogras raised 1900: served in China then with Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15, then in Mesopotamia, Afghan War 1919, Aden, Somaliland &c. 2nd Bn. raised 1917 served in Afghan War 1919, Mahsud campaign 1920 & Wana Column 1921. On IA reorganisation in 1922 the 1st B. became 3/17th Dogras & the 2nd Bn. the 10th (Training) Bn. Rare history with much interesting detail, composite photos. of COs & Subedars-Major, &c. "This is a handsome book, a pleasure to handle, & full of facts. The appendices are exceptionally good. The H&A appendix, for example, includes details of all IOM & IDSM awards, foreign awards, full citations where appropriate, & details of Recommendations." - Perkins. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.   £375
ADYE (Gen. Sir John, GCB, RA) Recollections of a Military Life. 1st Ed., x+382pp., 12 plates, 9 text illus., 3 maps. Smith Elder. 1895  #64793
[HLMainPic] Gunner in Crimean War, Indian Mutiny (ops. around Cawnpore &c.), several Frontier excursions (Umbeyla & Bhootan 1865) & Central Asia/Afghanistan 1878-79. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, little rubbed & worn, generally VG. Armorial bookplate of George Kelson Stothert, scion of the Bristol shipbuilding family. See illustrations on our website.   £65

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