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Regimental History Regimental and divisional histories including the Great War 1914-1918   556 Books
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The 11th Battalion Gordon Highlanders 1914-1916. 1st Ed., orig. printed card wraps., 115pp., 31 photos. Published for the Battalion by Maclure, Macdonald & Co., Glasgow. 1916  #68054
[HLMainPic] Story of this training bn. in the UK with valuable rolls of the services of around 240 Gordons officers & many more NCOs who passed through it; also various named group photos. of officers, NCOs &c., also a nominal roll with group photo. of every draft provided for the front, recording many hundreds of names & faces. VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.   £125
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  #68017
[HLMainPic] 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
The Story of the Sixty-Sixth C.F.A. 1st Ed., xii+148pp., portrait frontis., 12 photo. plates (inc. portraits of Battery Commanders), 3 maps. Edinburgh: Turnbull & Spears, for the Battery. 1919  #68470
[HLMainPic] A fine history compiled by members of the Battery in Belgium in 1919. Includes accounts of raising & training in Canada & UK, then active service in France 1917-18. Perkins applauds the factual information within & adds that is was "presumably based upon the war Diary" although there is far more detail on events & personalities than generally found in those bare records. Includes nominal rolls of all ranks with details of their services. Orig. blue calf, gilt to front & sp., inner joint split. Rare. See illustration on our website.   £50
Schedule of Personnel of 283 Siege Battery R.G.A. for the use of those who served with it in The Great War, And a Short Record of the Battery's Movements. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., approx. 50pp. (un-numbered), 2 maps (one fldg.). Sunderland: Hills Press. 1919  #68428
[HLMainPic] Brief battery diary (with 51st Heavy Bde. RGA, serving as 'Corps Heavies' for various Corps' from July 1917-Nov. 1918) followed by Roll of Hon. & service details of all ranks showing date of joining & leaving battery, how employed (Signaller, Gunlayer, &c.), reason for leaving & home address. Orig. printed wraps., lacks decorative ribbon o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £95
The History of the Locally Raised 160th (Wearside) Brigade Royal Field Artillery. 1st Ed., 41pp., 4to, frontis. (faux arms), 3 plates. Sunderland: Robert Youll, Printer. nd (c.1920)  #68421
[HLMainPic] Rare record of 160th Bde. RFA, raised in Sunderland in 1915 & served in France/Flanders from Jan. 1916-1919 with the 34th Div., inc. Somme 1916, Arras 1917, Passchendaele, 1918 Battles &c. Short historical record followed by rolls of officers, NCOs & men who served with the unit, noting the battery to which they belonged, together with roll of those killed or wounded (including date), & awards roll. Orig. dec. card wraps., VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £120
135 Survey Engineer Regiment (TA): History of the Regiment 1948-1965. 1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., dup. typescript, spiral bound foolscap format, ii+35+[xiv]pp., with loosely inserted col. plate of uniforms Ewell, Surrey: RHQ. 1965  #62813
[HLMainPic] An unusual TA regiment formed in 1948 comprising Topographic Squadron, Cartographic Squadron & Lithographic Squadron. Details of their work, rolls of officers, roll of awards of Efficiency Medals &c. VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
The 54th Infantry Brigade 1914-1918: Some Records of Battle & Laughter in France. 1st Ed., xi+207pp., 15 plates. For Private Circulation. 1919  #68298
[HLMainPic] 18th Div. (12th Middx., 2nd & 7th Beds., 11th RF & 6th Northants). Detailed on the raising of the Brigade & subsequent services inc. Trones Wood, Thiepval &c. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, somewhat sunned, VG. See illustration on our website.   £50
178 Siege Battery R.G.A., B.E.F. France 1916-1918. 1st Ed., viii+127pp., 4 plates. Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd., Printers, Leeds. 1919  #63037
[HLMainPic] 6-inch Howitzer battery formed 1916: to France in October & immediately in action on the Arras front, inc. supporting a raid at Blangy in Jan. 1917, Battle of Arras inc. supporting attacks on Monchy-le-Preux &c., later at 3rd Ypres, Cambrai, Spring Offensive &c. Nominal roll of original Battery, another at demobilization, Roll of Hon. (inc. wounded & gassed), awards. Useful account with much interesting detail on the work of the battery & several most interesting appendices including Battery Humour &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. Ownership inscrip. of W.N. Bates, listed as a Gunner in the nominal roll of the original battery. See illustration on our website.   £100
Historical Record of the Eighty-First Regiment, or Loyal Lincoln Volunteers; Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1793, And of its Subsequent Services to 1872. 1st Ed., [v]+256pp., col. frontis. (regimental colours), col. plate (officer, 1798), b/w litho. plate (the ship 'Sultana' in a cyclone with the 81st on board). Gibraltar: Printed at the Twenty-Eighth Regimental Press. 1872  #70366
[HLMainPic] Rare locally produced history of which Victor Sutcliffe (Regiments of the British Army... Part I, Infantry) states: "A really excellent example of amateur printing though it has to be said that the attempted lithograph is not a great success! The text is a good narrative history with footnotes and includes 90 pages on the Peninsular War." VS might have added that other campaigns covered included the West Indies, Maida, Walcheren & the Indian Mutiny. Roll of officers in 1871 at penultimate leaf, with ink note of those deceased. Orig. half brown calf, gilt, green cloth covd. boards, somewhat rubbed, generally VG with errata slip bound in against tp.   £125
History of the East Lancashire Royal Engineers. 1st Ed., xxvi+268pp., 9 illus. For Private Circulation. 1921  #68293
[HLMainPic] 427th, 428th & 429th Field Coys. & 42nd Div. Signal Coy., Gallipoli, Egypt & Western Front from 1917. Roll of Hon., awards. Rebound ex-lib. copy. See illustration on our website.   £30

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