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BIRDWOOD (FM Lord)
Khaki & Gown: An Autobiography.
Foreword by Winston Churchill. 1st Ed., 456pp., portrait frontis., 16 plates, 5 maps. Ward, Lock & Co.
1941
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GOC ANZAC Corps 1915-18, much on Gallipoli - including the conception, planning & course of the operations - & France. Earlier in the XI Bengal Lancers: Black Mountain, Tirah, Mohmand, Boer War, &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, contemp. Christmas gift inscrip. o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£20
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DAVID (Saul)
The Bengal Army & The Outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.
1st Ed., 399pp., 39 tables. VG in dw. Delhi: Manohar.
2009
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Scholarly study of the Sepoys' grievances over pay & conditions, career prospects & relations between the enlisted men & their British officers. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£15
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EDWARDS (William, BCS)
Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, & Oude.
4th Ed, revised, iv+206pp. Smith, Elder.
1859
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Atmospheric account of flight from mutineers (& reliance on loyal Indians) by magistrate of the Budaon district of Rohilcund. Orig. red cloth, blindstamped & gilt, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.
£165
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HOLLINGS (Mary Alnright) Ed.
The Life of Sir Colin C. Scott-Moncrieff, KCSI, KCMG, RE &c.)
1st Ed., xii+374pp., portrait frontis., 21 illus. John Murray.
1917
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Biography based on reminiscences & letters edited by Scott-moncrieff's niece. He was ed. at Addiscombe, entered Bengal Engineers 1856 & retired as a Colonel in 1883. Served in the Mutiny in the campaign in Oudh &c., with Irrigation Dept in NW Province, Chief Engineer in Burma, then PWD in Egypt & Sudan 1883-92 (CSI for famine relief work in Madras 1878-79). Cloth stained/worn but sound & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£25
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HUNTER (Sir William)
The Thackerays in India, & Some Calcutta Graves.
1st Ed., 191pp. Henry Frowde.
1897
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Anglo-Indian family in the days of the HEIC, mainly in the Bengal Civil Service. Orig. cloth, sp. darkened/tanned o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£30
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MACKENZIE (Col. A.R.D., CB)
Mutiny Memoirs Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857.
2nd Ed., [ix]+211+iv+iipp., frontis., 5 plates. Allahabad: Pioneer Press.
1892
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Mackenzie was a subaltern with the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry at Meerut on the outbreak of the Mutiny & was later in the Siege of Delhi & Relief of Lucknow (with other irregular cavalry regiments). Atmospheric account that first appeared in the columns of the Pioneer newspaper. The first edition was published in 1891 & both editions are rare. Contemp. black half morocco, little rubbed & worn, generally VG & rare. See illustration on our website.
£220
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MACPHERSON (W.C., CSI) Ed.
Soldiering in India 1764-1787: Extracts from Journals & Letters left by Lt. Colonel Allan Macpherson & Lt. Colonel John Macpherson of the East India Company's Service.
1st Ed., xxi+413pp., 5 plates, 3 fldg. maps. Blackwood.
1928
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Military service including the two subjects' journals of Rohilcund & Oudh, Rohilla Campaigns 1772-73 & 1774, further Mahratta Wars service &c. Much interesting first-hand journal accounts of these campaigns. Orig. red cloth, gilt to front & sp., sp. gilt dulled o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£120
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MEDLEY (Julius G., Capt., Bengal Engineers)
A Year's Campaigning in India, From March, 1857, to Mach, 1858.
1st Ed., xii+213pp., tinted litho. frontis. (A Native Officer of Punjab Pioneers), 4 fldg. maps & plans. Thacker & Co.
1858
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"The narrative embraces the Bozdar Expedition in the Derajat Hills, in March 1857; the Siege & Capture of Delhi, in Sept. 1857; Col. Seaton's Campaign in the Doab, in Dec. of the same year; & the Siege & Capture of Lucknow, in March, 1858. The first of these... will give the reader some idea of the peculiarities of the frontier warfare..." - author's Preface. Ladendorf 330 ("An account of one man's share in the campaigns to retake Delhi & Lucknow with emphasis on the operations of the engineers.") Raugh 6584 ("This volume includes the author's account of his experiences, as a captain in the Bengal Engineers, at the siege of Delhi, September 1857; Colonel Seaton's campaign in the Doab, December 1857; & the siege & capture of Lucknow, March 1858." Orig. red cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked with sp. panel laid down, little worming, generally a good sound copy & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£225
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SANDHU (Maj.-Gen. G.S., PVSM)
I Serve: Saga of the The Eighteenth Cavalry.
1st Ed., [xiii]+265pp., 19 col. & num. b/w illus. (inc. portraits), maps. VG in chipped dw. Delhi: Lancer International.
1991
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Bengal Lancers (formerly 6th KEO Cavalry & 7th Hariana Lancers) inc. WW1 Western Front, Mespot. & Palestine, WW2 Western Desert, Jammu & Kashmir 1965, 1971 &c. VG in chipped dw & now scarce. See illustration on our website.
£75
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TINSLEY (Terence)
Stick & String.
1st Ed., 128pp., 14 illus., 2 ep maps. VG in dw. Buckland Publications.
1992
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Scarce (privately published?) WW2 Burma memoirs of service with 73 Indian Field Coy., Bengal Sappers & Miners, inc. all three of the Arakan campaigns. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£45
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