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WYLLY (Col. H.C., CB)
The Military Memoirs of Lt.-Gen. Sir Joseph Thackwell, GCB, KH, Colonel, 16th Lancers.
"Arranged from Diaries & Correspondence." 1st Ed., xvi+424pp., portrait frontis., plate, 9 maps & plans (several fldg.). Murray.
1908
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Peninsula (retreat to Corunna &c.) & Waterloo (wounded in the last charge of the 15th Hussars) followed by service in India inc. 1st Afghan & 1st & 2nd Sikh Wars, commanding cavalry division in the Army of the Sutlej, briefly the 3rd Div. in the Army of the Punjab then the cavalry division. Present at Aliwal, Sobraon, Chillianwallah, Gujerat. Important source, orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG with armorial bookplate of Sir Archibald Hamilton Dunbar of Northfield, Seventh Baronet. See illustration on our website.
£125
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