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1st Bn. The Prince Albert's Somerset Light Infantry. The Sergeants' Mess Rules. Rawal Pindi January 1900.
Orig. printed cloth covd. wraps., 25pp. (& blank interleaves). Eureka Printing Press, Rawal Pindi. Contemp.
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Details of messing arrangements, accounts, &c. Small pocketbook, orig. green printed cloth covd. wraps., gilt, VG & doubtless scarce survival. See illustration on our website.
£25
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Extracts from the Standing Orders of The Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry).
[v]+55pp. Devonport: Swiss & Co. nd (c.1908).
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Customary regimental routines, regulations &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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Incidents with the Seventh Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry in France & Germany from June 1944 to June 1945.
1st Ed., 74pp. No imprint/date [Germany, c.1946].
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Anonymous account (by "B" Coy. commander) which conveys well the confusion in Normandy & the bleak outlook. With the arrival of an effective CO the bn's. confidence returned but days later he was killed. A third CO was killed within a few more days then the author was wounded at Mont Pincon & evacuated to the UK. Rejoined in 1945 in time for the Rhine crossing & final operations. Contemp. red cloth, blind, no publication details but evidently manufactured in Germany c.1945-46. Stain to front o/w VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£125
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Scrap Book of the 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (13th Foot) being a chronicle of their experiences in the Great War, 1914-1918, contributed by officers & other ranks... [And:] Cambrai... A Supplement to the Scrap Book of the 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry.
With a Foreword by Col. C.J. Troyte-Bullock, DSO. 1st Ed., 156pp., plate, 2 maps. Aylesbury: Fredk. Samuels Ltd., The Kingsbury Press.
1932
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61st Bde., 20th (Light) Div., Western Front 1915-18: Somme (notably capture of Guillemont), 3rd Ypres (inc. capture of Langemarck, Eagle Trench), Cambrai &c. A fine collaborative effort organised by Capt. H.A. Foley, MC, who served with the bn. 1915-18 (PoW, March 1918) & whose brother was killed with it in May 1917. Orig. blue cloth gilt, complete with the Cambrai supplement, VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.
£220
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The Light Bob Gazette: Regimental Journal of The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) Vol. XXXVIII, No.3: The Royal Silver Jubilee & 250th Anniversary Number, July 1st, 1935.
Orig. dec. wraps., 80pp., 4to, several col. plates, num. photos. Taunton: Goodman & Son. (for the SLI). Contemp.
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This special number includes numerous historical notes & a wide range of photos. of uniforms & campaigns (inc. WW1, with portraits of wartime battalion commanders) &c. VG. See illustrations on our website.
£25
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EVERETT (Maj.-Gen. Sir H.)
The History of the Somerset Light Infantry 1685-1914.
1st Ed., xvi+421pp., 17 plates, 22 maps. Methuen.
1934
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Detailed history inc. Napoleonic Wars, First Afghan, Indian Mutiny, Zulu & Boer Wars &c. Orig three-qtr. morocco, gilt, VG with pencil ownership inscrip. of G.H.A. Couchman (noted in the text as Mentioned in Despatches for operations In Burma in 1887 & commanded the 2nd Bn. 1906-1909). See illustration on our website.
£65
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FOLEY (Henry Arthur, MC)
Three Years on Active Service & Eight Months as a Prisoner-of-War.
1st Ed., 185pp., portrait frontis., 12 plates (by W. Cecil Dunford, Special Artist attached to the Historical Records Section, A.I.F., France), 3 sketch maps. Bridgwater: Walter Belcher (Printed for Private Circulation).
1920
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Informative & rare privately printed personal account of training, active service & PoW camp life, with appealing portrait & illustrations on photographic paper. Foley was educated at Clifton College & enlisted with his brother, Geoff, in the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton Barracks on 31 Aug. 1914; both were drafted to 6th (S) Bn. & went to France in 1915. In Nov. the brothers were both sent to the GHQ Cadet School at Blendecques & were duly commissioned in the 7th SLI. Geoff was wounded & died of wounds in May 1917, HAF became a captain & company commander, served on the Somme & 3rd Ypres with the 7th Somersets & was captured by the Germans during the Spring Offensive in 1918. Orig. olive green cloth, minor wear, inscribed by the author: "To Mr & Mrs N.J. Molesworth from The Author July 1 1920." See illustrations on our website,
£275
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GREEN (Arthur)
The Story of a Prisoner of War.
1st Ed., orig. dec. card covs. (with portrait of the author in 'hospital blues'), [vii]+96pp., portrait frontis. Chatto & Windus.
1916
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No. 6646 Pte. Green, 1st SLI, 4th Div. Charming naive descriptions of mobilisation & arrival in France until the author was promptly wounded & captured near Le Cateau. Sixteen months in PoW camps followed before he was repatriated. God Save the King! Somewhat worn, neatly tape repaired, sound thus, rare & appealing. See illustration on our website.
£85
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MOLESWORTH (Lt.-Gen. G.N., CSI, CBE)
Afghanistan 1919: An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War.
1st Ed., xi+183pp., 8 photos., 12 sketch maps. Bombay/NY: Asia Pubg. House.
1962
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First-hand account by then adjutant of 2nd Bn. SLI, who maintains that the 1926 Official History is "more interesting for what it omits than what it contains." Ex-lib., jacket pasted onto boards, hence unattractive, but sound, complete & rare. See illustration on our website.
£35
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PRIDEAUX (Captain G.A., MC)
A Soldier's Diary of the Great War 1914-1917.
1st Ed., vi+192pp., portrait frontis., photo. of original wooden grave marker, fldg. map. Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press.
1918
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Geoffrey Arthur Prideaux was born in 1891, educated at Eton and Sandhurst and commissioned in the Somerset Light Infantry in March 1911. Served continuously with the 1st Battalion (11th Brigade, 4th Division) in France and Flanders from August 1914-August 1915 (apart from a spell in hospital, December 1914-March 1915), as Battalion Transport Officer, Company Commander and thereafter as Staff Captain then Brigade Major of the 11th Infantry Brigade, until killed in action by shellfire on 19th January 1917 whilst making a reconnaissance from the forward trenches. He was twenty-five and is buried in Hem Farm Military Cemetery. The volume includes his detailed and interesting daily diary from August 1914-14th January 1917 containing much interesting and in-depth detail on the services of the 1st S.L.I. and other units of the 11th Brigade – including on the first day of the Battle of the Somme – followed by several letters of condolence. Orig. brown paper covered boards with cloth backstrip, VG & rare. Mr & Mrs Prodeaux's comp. slip loosely insertedSee illustrations on our website.
£265
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