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Sappers and Miners   3 Books
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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  #67736
[HLMainPic] 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
SANDES (Major E.W,C., DSO, MC, RE) Tales of Turkey. 1st Ed., xiii+173pp., 7 photos. Murray. 1924  #62569
[HLMainPic] Incidents & adventures of the author whilst a Prisoner of War in Turkey 1916-18, including the fall of Kut (when the author was captured, &c.): "Few men... can truly describe a country or a nation till they have lived among the common people in that country for several years & have observed them under all conditions & in all moods... if my narrative... throws a ray or two of light on a country which is now much in the public eye, I shall feel that my two & a half years in Turkey were well spent..." - Preface. Orig. red cloth, sp. sunned o/w VG & rare with armorial bookplate & pencil ownership inscrip. of R.D. Merriman, an officer of the Royal Indian Marine who was also taken PoW at the fall of Kut & who has made several interesting pencil annotations to the text. See illustrations on our website.   £165
TINSLEY (Terence) Stick & String. 1st Ed., 128pp., 14 illus., 2 ep maps. VG in dw. Buckland Publications. 1992  #64512
[HLMainPic] 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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