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Deeds of the Royal Engineers.
Compiled in the Royal Engineer Record Office In Compliance with Army Council Instruction No. 850, dated April 19th, 1916. Orig. printed paper covd. boards, [iv]+81pp. Chatham: Royal Engineers Institute.
1918
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Notable events in Corps history inc. chapters on Royal Engineers & The Battle of Waterloo; The Royal Sappers & Miners in the Crimean War; The Blowing In of the Cashmere Gate at Delhi; 23rd Coy. in the Indian Mutiny & China; 23rd Coy at Ladysmith, &c. Orig. grey printed paper covd. boards with blue cloth backstrip, little chipped/rubbed at top of rear panel o/w VG & rare (just 500 copies printed).
£50
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Historical Records of the XXX. Regiment.
1st Ed., ix+283pp. Clowes.
1887
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East Lancashire Regt. Campaigns include Egypt 1800, Peninsular War, Waterloo 1815, India 1819-28 inc. siege of Asseerghur &c., Crimean War, &c., "as far as possible made up of the narratives of officers & others who actually served in the operations they describe..." Officers' services details. Orig. yellow cloth, gilt, soiled o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£145
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The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers: Being the History of the Regiment from December 1688 to July 1914.
Compiled under the direction of a Regimental Historical Records Committee. 2nd Ed., xx+673pp., c.20 maps. VG in dw. Constable.
1934
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Napoleonic wars (inc. Waterloo, with casualty roll), Kaffir Wars, Indian Mutiny, China, Tirah & South African War (with rolls of casualties killed, wounded &c., awards). This 2nd edition excluded the plates in the 1st Ed. of 1928 but a very nice copy, orig. green cloth, titled in red, complete with dw & scarce thus. See illustrations on our website.
£85
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ALMACK (Edward)
The History of the Second Dragoons "Royal Scots Greys."
1st Ed., xx+312pp., 4to, 44 illus. (inc. 3 col. plates of uniforms). London.
1908
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Handsome, substantial work including Waterloo campaign, Crimea & the Boer War. Roll of officers' services. Orig. grey cloth, gilt, with white buckram sp. strip., gilt, little rubbed & worn, about VG
£125
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ATKINSON (C.T.)
History of the Royal Dragoons 1661-1934.
1st Ed., xx+547pp., 8 col. & 14 b/w plates, 51 maps & diagrams. Glasgow: Maclehose, For the Regiment.
1934
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Including Peninsula & Waterloo campaigns, Crimea, Boer War & WW1 Western Front 1914-18. Roll of officers' services. Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG but for ink note on front paste-down: NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY. See illustration on our website.
£120
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BANNATYNE (Lt.-Col. Neil)
History of the Thirtieth Regiment now the First Battalion East Lancashire Regiment, 1689-1881.
1st Ed., ix+474pp., 14 col plates (of uniforms), one b/w plate (with portraits of 3 COs), 15 maps. Liverpool: Littlebury Bros.
1923
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Exellent, detailed & scarce history including campaigns in Flanders, Peninsula & Waterloo, Mahratta Wars & Crimea. Roll of officers who served; casualties of all ranks often noted in text. Orig. blue cloth, gilt,stained & worn, internally VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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BECKE (Major A.F.)
Napoleon & Waterloo: The Emperor's campaign with the armee du Nord 1815.
Revised Ed., xv+320pp., 5 fldg. & 6 sketch maps. Kegan Paul.
1936
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Acclaimed work. Somewhat sunned o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£15
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BRODIGAN (Lt.-Col. F.) Ed.
Historical Records of the Twenty-Eighth North Gloucestershire Regiment From 1692 to 1882.
1st Ed., v+232pp. Blackfriars Ptg. & Pubg. Co.
1884
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Includes Marlborough's Wars, expedition to Copenhagen, campaigns in the Peninsula, Walcheren, Waterloo, Crimea &c. Several rolls of officers. Orig. red cloth, gilt, ex-NAM & AMOT, somewhat chipped & worn, trace of old label at foor of sp., generally VG. See illustration on our website
£75
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CARY (A.D.L., OBE) & McCANCE (Capt. S.)
Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Vols. I & II. 1689-1815 & 1816-1914.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., 4to; xxi+324pp. & xviii+425pp., maps. Wrexham: The RWF.
1995
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These vols. contain Napoleonic Wars, inc. Peninsula & Waterloo, Crimean War, Indian Mutiny, Ashanti, Burma 1885, Black Mountain Expedition, Boer War &c. Orig. blue cloth, worn, sound.
£40
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CROSTHWAITE (J. Fisher, Hon. Maj., 1st Cumberland Rifle Vols.)
Brief Memoir of Major-Gen. Sir John Geo. Woodford K.C.B., K.C.H.
1st Ed., [iii]+63+xiipp., real photo. portrait frontis., 6 plates. London: Kent & Co., Keswick: M. Bailey & T. Mayson, & Kendall: T. Wilson (printed by the last named of the three joint publishers).
1881
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A paper read to the Keswick Literary & Scientific Society on March 29th, 1880 (it must have been a long but interesting evening) containing an account of Woodford's immediate antecedents & life. He was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in 1800 & saw active servivce at the Siege of Copenhagen in 1807, then in the Peninsula 1808-14 (DAQMG & ADC to Moore at Corunna, when he had his horse shot under him, & AQMG under Wellington at battles of Nive, Nivelle &c., afterward in the Waterloo campaign). Includes some extracts from his letters written during these campaigns & concludes with an autobiographical memorandum by his elder brother, Gen. Sir Alexander Woodford, & various other documents. Not in Sutcliffe (Sandler Collection catalogue). Orig. red red cloth, gilt, sp. & front panel stained, o/w VG. See illustrations on our website.
£65
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