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Cabar Feidh: The Quarterly Magazine of the Seaforth Highlanders, Vol. III, No. 14, May 1925. 46pp., portrait frontis., several photos. The Regt. Contemp.  #68074
[HLMainPic] Customary regimental news, sports, OCAs, &c. This issue includes a frontis. portrait & special feature on Lt.-Col. David Mason-Macfarlane CMG, CBE, TD, who commanded the 1/4th Bn. during WW1, & this example is bound in sumptuous full red morocco with his presentation inscrip. to a grandchild. VG throughout. See illustrations on our website.   £30
MORAYSHIRE: MCKENZIE (William J.) Ed. The Morayshire Roll of Honour: A Biographical Record of the Men & Women connected with the County who took part in The Great War 1914-1918. 1st Ed., xvi+547pp., 4to, 4 plates. Elgin: Morayshire Town & County Councils. 1921  #68068
[HLMainPic] Services & biographical details of many thousands from the county (the local bn. was 1/6th Seaforth Highlanders). Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £90
ROYAL HIGH SCHOOL OF EDINBURGH: 1914-1918 Roll of Honour of the Royal High School of Edinburgh 1914-1918. 1st Ed., xi+99pp., 4to, photos. throughout. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 1920  #68064
[HLMainPic] War services of 929 old boys, with portraits of 174 who fell. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £65
TURRIFF: ROBERTSONJ (J. Minto) Ed. The War Book of Turriff & Twelve Miles Round 1914-1919: Being Records, with Roll of Honour, of the Area, & Including Various War Commentaries Written by Men & Women From the Area. 1st Ed., xiv+480pp., several plates. Turriff & District Ex-Service Men's Assoc. 1926  #68063
[HLMainPic] Contains records of service of 2670 from Turiff & srrounding towns such as King-Edward, Alvah, Gamrie &c., of whom 597 were killed. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustrations on our website.   £120
Government of India, Military Department correspondence, 1897. Approx. 300pp., foolscap. Govt. Central Press, Simla. 1897  #68061
[HLMainPic] A volume of printed copies (mostly around 100-130 printed) relating to administrative matters in the Indian Army, largely relating to accounts & pay, officers' claims for allowances (some granted, many not), purchase or requisition of equipment &c. Chiefly of value in demonstrating the immense burden of official 'red tape' that kept large numbers of staff officers gainfully employed. Take, for instance, the dispute over payment for a typewriter obtained by the Mathematical Instrument Department: "The Military Accounts Department have refused to accept the debit raised by the Mathematical Instrument Department against the Military estimates on this account, on the ground that the transaction is not covered by the sanction of Government as laid down in the resolution of the Government of India in the Finance Department, No. 185, dated 10th January 1883, as modified by the orders in Finance Department Resolution No. 2586, dated 23rd May 1889, and the correspondence is now submitted for the orders of Government." In other words: the typewriter should not have been obtained without prior sanction, but, as the typewriter had already been obtained the Government of India sanctioned - "as a special case" - the cost being met from the contingent grant of the QMG's Department. Spellbinding stuff. Modern three-qtr. Indian calf, a little wormed, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £60
The India List, Civil & Military, January 1887. Issued by Permission of the Secretary of State for India in Council. xcv+636pp. W.H. Allen & Co. Contemp.  #68059
[HLMainPic] Expanded format. Forerunner to the Indian Army List, these contains civil & military officers of all arms, including IA, British Army regiments in India & their date of arrival, location &c., surgeons, ecclesiastical department and invalid establishments, retired lists &c. for the three Presidencies. Also various listings, holders of awards such as OBI & IOM. They were issued twice annually & are fully indexed. Later maroon cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
HODGKINSON (Capt. A.) The King's Own T.F. Being a Record of the 1/5th Bn. The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) in the European war 1914-1918. 1st Ed., 184pp., portrait, 13 maps. Lewes: Lewes Press. 1921  #68057
[HLMainPic] Western Front from Feb. 1915 to the Armistice then Brussels & Germany to Sept. 1919. 2nd & 3rd Ypres, Loos, Cambrai &c. Roll of Hon., awards, officers &c. Fine depiction of a TF battalion's war experience compiled by the Quartermaster. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG, plus loosely inserted appealing colour printed statement of services. See illustrations on our website.   £45
REES (L.E. Ruutz) A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow from its Commencement to its Relief by Sir Colin Campbell. 3rd Ed., xx+389pp., portrait frontis. Longman. 1858  #68055
[HLMainPic] Calcutta merchant caught up in events at Lucknow & "one of the surviving defenders." Much of interest including Kavanagh's escapade. Ladendorf 360. Raugh 2673. Orig. pebble cloth, minor wear, lacking map as usual. See illustration on our website.   £35
The 11th Battalion Gordon Highlanders 1914-1916. 1st Ed., orig. printed card wraps., 115pp., 31 photos. Published for the Battalion by Maclure, Macdonald & Co., Glasgow. 1916  #68054
[HLMainPic] Story of this training bn. in the UK with valuable rolls of the services of around 240 Gordons officers & many more NCOs who passed through it; also various named group photos. of officers, NCOs &c., also a nominal roll with group photo. of every draft provided for the front, recording many hundreds of names & faces. VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £125
KAHNERT (M.E.) Jagdstaffel 356. Trans. from the German by Claude W. Sykes. 1st Eng. Ed., 126pp., 27 photos. Hamilton. 1935  #68053
[HLMainPic] Uncommon memoir of German scout squadron, Western Front. The Jagd. is fictitious but the work is based on the author's services. Orig. blue cloth, titled in black, VG. See Illustration on our website.   £25

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