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Division of the Chief of Staff. Army Headquarters. Mobilisation Branch. Case No. 672. Field Operations - Zakka Khel, 1908. Bazar Valley Field Force. From - 31st January 1908. To - 10th March 1908.
1st Ed., orig. printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrip, 28pp. (Index to Correspondence) + 8pp. (Despatch Register) + 134pp. (Correspondence), foolscap format. Govt. of India Central Printing Office. 3rd April 1908.
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Exceptionally rare CONFIDENTIAL report on aspects of the planning & execution of the operations against the Zakka Khel Afridis in 1908. Just 30 copies printed. The report/correspondence concerns the intense period of planning, build-up & mobilisation of the force, Orders of Battle & various details of staff appointments, &c., Scheme for Operations Against the Zakka Khel (much detail on the geographical conditions of the area of the impending operations), reports on the progress of troops & telegrams regarding the progress of the campaign during its most important period, up to 10th March 1908, all from original reproduced correspondence &c. An invaluable resource for a serious in-depth study of this particular campaign & also of the nature of preparations for any NWF expedition, from operational organisation & planning to logistical & medical needs, &c. Orig. printed paper covd. boards with cloth backstrip, heavily wormed, formerly dilapidated but professionally recased, VG this & housed in a fine fitted drop-side box with gilt title to sp. See illustrations on our website.
£900
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RYAN (Major D.G.J., DSO) et al.
Historical Record of the 6th Gurkha Rifles Volume I 1817-1919.
Facsimile reprint of 1925 1st Ed., xxiii+329pp., portrait frontis., 44 photos., 20 maps (some fldg.). The Regiment. nd (c.1980).
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Extensive services on the NE Frontier of India & in Burma; also Zhaka Khel & Mohmand Expeditions (NWF); WW1 in Gallipoli (landed Cape Helles & again at ANZAC) 1915 & Mespot. 1916-18. Roll of Hon., awards, officers' services. Perkins 503 ("full of useful information"). Scarce reissued edition by the regiment, qtr. rexine, gilt to sp. with green cloth boards, VG. See illustration on our website.
£95
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WATERS (Major R.S., OBE)
History of the 5th Bn. (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ("The Forty Thieves").
1st Ed., xv+398pp., 23 plates, 8 maps. Bain.
1936
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A fine & substantial volume covering the period 1780-1936 (inc. Tibet & NWF expeditions, 3rd Afghan War &c.) but especially detailed on the Great War: France & East Africa. Rolls of officers (inc. KiA, wounded) &c. "...longer & contains more basic research material than is usually found in IA histories of that period" - Perkins 478. Orig. green cloth, gilt, professionally rebacked with orig. sp. laid down, VG thus. (This copy provided with photocopy of extensive Addenda & Corrigenda notes previously unseen by me & evidently not known to Perkins.) See illustrations on our website.
£275
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