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Tirah   11 Books
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Memorials of a Young Soldier, Lieutenant Giffard, Northamptonshire Regiment. 1st Ed., [v]+68pp., portrait frontis. Clowes & Sons. 1898  #66183
[HLMainPic] A memoir of Lt. Cecil Lerrier Giffard, who was born in Guernsey in 1868 &, following service in the Militia, was commissioned in the 58th (2nd Bn. Northampstonshire Regt.) in 1890. He served in India with his regiment until KiA by a sniper's bullet during the Tirah campaign on 6th Nov. 1897 with the 48th (1st Northamptonshire). Includes extracts from his diaries & letters in India including the Tirah campaign. Orig. half white morocco boards & red cloth sides, gilt title to front panel, rebacked in matching calf with red leather letting label. VG thus & rare. See illustrations on our website.   £225
BIRDWOOD (FM Lord) Khaki & Gown: An Autobiography. Foreword by Winston Churchill. 1st Ed., 456pp., portrait frontis., 16 plates, 5 maps. Ward, Lock & Co. 1941  #61145
[HLMainPic] 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
DAVIES (C. Collin, PhD.) The Problem of the North-West Frontier 1890-1908, With a Survey of Policy since 1849. 2nd Ed, revised & enlarged, xviii+220pp., 3 fldg. maps. London: Curzon Press & NY: Barnes & Noble. 1975  #66875
[HLMainPic] Power-play on the NWF at a crucial period. Standard study, based on official documents & sources, originally published in 1932 by Cambridge Univ. Press & this edition revised up to Partition in 1947. Orig. yellow cloth, gilt, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.   £45
GARDYNE (Lt.-Col. C. Greenhill) The Life of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders: Volume II, 1816-1898 (including an Account of the 75th Regt. from 1787-1881). 2nd Imp., xxiv+346pp., col. plates, photos., maps & plans. Medici. 1929  #66805
[HLMainPic] Campaigns include Crimea & Indian Mutiny, Second Afghan War, Transvaal War, Gordon Relief Expedition, Tirah 1897 &c. Orig. cloth, titled in black, VG. See illustration on our website.   £25
HUDSON (Gen. Sir H., GCB) History of the 19th King George's Own Lancers from 1858-1921, formerly 18th K.G.O. Lancers & 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse), amalgamated in 1921. 1st Ed., xiv+370pp., 4to, 2 col. & 31 b/w plates, 6 fldg. maps. Aldershot: G&P. 1937  #63299
[HLMainPic] Indian Mutiny, 2nd Afghan War, Tirah & WW1 Western Front & Palestine campaigns. A detailed & handsome history with numerous rolls & appendices (inc. awards, casualties, wounded or killed &c., all ranks). "A superb publication..." - Perkins. Orig. dec. blue cloth, gilt, very nice copy, near fine throughout. See illustration on our website.   £245
HUTCHINSON (Col. H.D.) The Campaign in Tirah 1897-1898: An Account of the Expedition Against the Orakzais & Afridis under General Sir William Lockhart, GCB, KCSI. 1st Ed., xvi+250pp., frontis., 20 plates, 7 maps/plans (some fldg.). Macmillan. 1898  #66853
[HLMainPic] Good full account of the operations, in which the author participated. Includes roll of British officers killed & wounded & a roll of commanding & staff officers during the expedition, noting their appointments. Orig. dec. green cloth gilt, rather rubbed & worn ex-lib. but sound & complete. Great value copy. See illustration on our website.   £45
MAJUMDAR (Lt.-Col. B.N.) History of the Army Service Corps. Volume II: 1858-1913. 1st Ed., xii+406pp. VG in chipped dw. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers. 1976  #68381
[HLMainPic] Volume II of the major five volume history of the Indian Army Service Corps from inception to 1962. This volume (vide Perkins, p. 519) "describes the role of military transport in the campaigns of Umbeyla (1863), Bhutan (1864), Abyssinia (1867-1868), Second Afghan War (1878-1880), Third Burmese War (1885), Sikkim (1888-1890), the Frontier Risings (1888-1898), Manipur (1891), Chitral (1895), Tibet (1904)& the Abor Expedition (1911-1912)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.   £145
PARRETT (Cliff) & CHHINA (Rana, MBE) Indian Order of Merit: Historical Records 1837-1947. Volume II: Military Division, 1860-1911 [Together with:] Civil Division 1902-1947. 1st Ed., 2 Vols. presented together in slipcase, 856pp., 20 col. & 30 b/w plates & 110pp., 3 col. & 6 b/w plates. dws & slipcase. Tom Donovan. 2018  #59265
Vol. II contains full details of awards made between 1860-1911, with full campaign details, including Operations on the North-West Frontier & Afghanistan; Expeditions in Burma & the North-East Frontier of India; Police Actions against Slavers in East & Central Africa; operations in China, Somaliland, Sudan & Tibet. Vol. III, The Civil Division, is a complete record of all 55 such awards, mainly for saving life & property, but also keeping the peace & dealing with one or other kind of armed fanatic or badmash in India & on or around her frontiers. Two volumes presented together in jackets with slipcase to match Vol. I.   £175
WATSON (Maj.-Gen. W.A., CB, CMG, CIE) King George's Own Central India Horse: The Story of a Local Corps. 1st Ed., xi+474pp., 5 plates, 4 maps. Blackwood. 1930  #66150
[HLMainPic] Organised as irregular cavalry for the Mutiny in 1857; much detail on this period & subsequently the 2nd Afghan War; Tirah 1897; became 38th Horse: WW1 in France & Palestine. Officers' services, awards roll &c. "This book is one of the best of all Indian Cavalry histories" - Perkins 419. Orig. red & sand cloth, VG ex-college lib. with bookplate at rear & minor trace of removal of label at foot of spine. See illustration on our website.   £165
WILLCOCKS (Gen. Sir James, GCB) The Romance of Soldiering & Sport. 1st Ed., xiv+342pp., 21 photos. Cassell. 1925  #65471
[HLMainPic] Indian Army from 1878: various Frontier campaigns inc, Chin-Lushai, Tirah, NWF 1908 &c., also Nigeria 1898, Ashanti 1900 & command of the Indian Corps in France 1914-15. Orig. red cloth, gilt, stain to rear board o/w VG. See illustration on our website.   £45

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