HARE (Maj.-Gen. Sir Steuart, KCMG, CB)
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Vol. V: The Great War.
1st Ed., xvi+478pp., portrait frontis., 9 fldg. & 3 sketch maps. Murray.
1932
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Almost all Western Front but also Macedonia & North Russia. Roll of officers killed. Scarce history & unusual to find the Great War vol. alone. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce with ownership. inscription & bookplate of W.H.E. Gott, i.e., William Henry Ewart '(Strafer)' Gott, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC. Commanding Officer 1st Bn KRRC 1939; Brigadier Commanding Support Group 1940; Major-Gen.l Commanding 7th Armoured Div. (the original Desert Rats) 1941; Lt.-Gen. Commanding XIII Corps & later all the armour 1942; Killed while flying to Cairo to take command of the Eighth Army, August 1942. See illustration on our website.
£145
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