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"The Robin Hoods" 1/7th, 2/7th & 3/7th Battns. Sherwood Foresters 1914-1918. Written by Officers of the Battalions. 1st Ed., 471pp., 63 photos. & sketches, 17 maps & diagrams (most fldg.). Nottingham: Bell. 1921  #68992
[HLMainPic] All three bns. served on the Western Front, including all main operations 1915-1918, also Easter Rising in Dublin 1916. Roll of Hon., awards. Appealing & detailed history with many illustrations & maps. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG with an interesting, neat ink inscrip. "To Rand as a souvenir of our meeting at VERQUIN - 13th May 1918 and subsequent 'doings' at Labenviere and Choques. From Len. Nottingham Sept. 29th 1934." See illustrations on our website.   £95
[S.S. 631. A.] Illustrations to Accompany Notes on The Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs. Series A. General Staff (Intelligence). General Headquarters. February, 1918. Large (31 x36 cm approx.) bound ledger volume (paper covd. boards, blue cloth backstrip, printed paper onlay to front) containing around 120 photos. & diagrams on 63 plates. Printed in France by Army Printing & Stationary Services. Contemp.  #70029
[HLMainPic] For Official Use Only. A very substantial volume, contains a plate listing then an exceptionally fine range of high quality photos., many with maps/diagrams adjacent to them, showing a wide range of features to include trench mortar & machine gun emplacements, trenches, tracks & railways, dug outs & other emplacements, &c. Many of the locations are identified, i.e, around Ypres, Arras, &c. Some wear to boards & some splitting to sp. o/w generally VG & internally all plates in very good, clean condition.   £475
1/6th Battn. London Regiment: Battalion Christmas Card 1917. Attractive card with regimental crest to front & insert (held in with red & green cord tie) depicting the battalion's battles & engagements from March 1915-August 1917, with appealing sketches. VG with inscrip. from Fred Hobbs to Mother & loosely inserted photo. of two soldiers of the battalion, one presumably Hobbs. See illustrations on our website.  #61819
[HLMainPic]   £30
2/4 Battalion Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps. with cord tie, 68pp., 4to, 2 maps. Privately printed. nd 1920  #67057
[HLMainPic] 2/4th Hants. in Palestine May 1917-May 1918 then in France with the 62nd (West Riding) Div. for the Final Advance June-Nov. 1918 inc. Havrincourt, Marcoing & Le Quesnoy. Several rolls of officers, awards. Casualties noted in text. Somewhat chipped/soiled but VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £120
2/4 Battalion Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps. with cord tie, 68pp., 4to, 2 maps. Privately printed. nd 1920  #69817
[HLMainPic] 2/4th Hants. in Palestine May 1917-May 1918 then in France with the 62nd (West Riding) Div. for the Final Advance June-Nov. 1918 inc. Havrincourt, Marcoing & Le Quesnoy. Several rolls of officers, awards. Casualties noted in text. Worn, sound.   £65
332 Siege Battery R.G.A. An Account of its Adventures in the Great War, 1917-18. Compiled from Notes & Recollections of Officers of the Battery. 1st Ed., ix+134pp., 22 photos., 5 fldg. maps. Windsor: Oxley & Son, Printers. nd (c.1920s)  #61958
[HLMainPic] 6-In. How. Battery formed Jan. 1917: F&F from May starting in Ploegsteert Sector then 3rd Ypres, down to Bertrancourt for March Retreat & Final Advance from Mericourt to Bois l'Evecque. Detailed history. Roll of officers & WOs (with brief services), Roll of Hon. Orig. dec. blue cloth, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
59th Division 1915-1919. 1st Ed., 186pp., 9 photos., 2 fldg. plans. Chesterfield: Wilfred Edmunds Ltd. 1928  #69469
[HLMainPic] Collaborative effort mostly by officers of the Division. Served Ireland (sent to quell the Easter Rising) & then F&F from Feb. 1917 & fought at Passchendaele, Bourlon Wood, March Offensive &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt to front, VG & rare with presentation letter tipped onto front paste-down, from one of the compilers, Lt-Col. E.U. Bradbridge, to Gen. Sir P. Hambro [i.e., Maj.-Gen. Sir Percy Otway Hambro, KBE, CB, CMG, DAQMG of III Corps 1915-18]: "My dear General, The officers of the Reunion Club of the late 59th Division hope that you will accept the enclosed volume... on account of your connection with the Division in the early days of our service in III Corps apropos of which I have made my - personal - acknowledgement to you, in the book..."   £120
5th Signal Company Royal Engineers: Summary of War History 1914-1919. Card wraps., [7]pp. Aldershot: G&P. nd  #62577
[HLMainPic] Summary of services with 5th Div., Western Front from Aug. 1914, & list of awards. Concise but scarce. VG. See illustration on our website.   £35
A German Deserter's War Experience. 1st UK Ed., translated by J. Koettgen. 254pp. Grant Richards. 1917  #63251
[HLMainPic] The author, it is stated, 'escaped from Germany after fourteen months of fighting in France... [a] vivid description of the life of a common German soldier in the present war' - Preface. Orig. black cloth, minor wear, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £45
A History of the Sixty-Sixth Field Artillery Brigade American Expeditionay Forces, Composed of the 146th & the 148th Field Artillery; National Guard Troops from the Western States of Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico. 1st Ed., 379pp., 105 photos., 7 fldg. maps. Denver: Smith-Brooks. nd (c.1919)  #61173
[HLMainPic] Lavish & well-illustrated but sadly lacks two maps. Orig. cloth, rather worn, sound. See illustration on our website.   £20

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