WATERS (Major R.S., OBE)
History of the 5th Bn. (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ("The Forty Thieves").
1st Ed., xv+398pp., 23 plates, 8 maps. Bain.
1936
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A fine & substantial volume covering the period 1780-1936 (inc. Tibet & NWF expeditions, 3rd Afghan War &c.) but especially detailed on the Great War: France & East Africa. Rolls of officers (inc. KiA, wounded) &c. "...longer & contains more basic research material than is usually found in IA histories of that period" - Perkins 478. Orig. green cloth, gilt, professionally rebacked with orig. sp. laid down, VG thus. (This copy provided with photocopy of extensive Addenda & Corrigenda notes previously unseen by me & evidently not known to Perkins.) See illustrations on our website.
£275
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