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Fighters for Freedom: Honor Roll of New Brunswick, The Great War 1914-1919.
1st Ed., 135pp., 141 photo. portraits. Halifax, Canada: Service Pubg. Co. Ltd. nd (c.1920s)
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Contains short but useful accounts NB units in the war, plus service details & portraits of 141 who served &/or fell. Orig. full morocco, little rubbed & worn, generally VG throughout & rare. See illustrations on our website.
£125
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BUTLER (Lt.-Col. Lewis)
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps.
Vol. III: xxviii+334pp., 8 portraits, 6 maps. Murray.
1926
#28213
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This useful volume covers the period 1830-1873 inc. Sikh & Kaffir Wars, Indian Mutiny (at Meerut, Delhi &c.), China 1860 & Red River Expedition. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG with rather clumsily pasted in bookplate of Sir Percival Scrope Marling, VC, CB, sometime of the regiment. See illustration on our website.
£50
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CURRIE (Col. J.A.)
The "Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders.
2nd Ed., 294pp., 16 plates, 3 maps. Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart.
1916
#66068
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48th Highlanders of Canada (or 15th Bn. CEF) in France & Flanders 1915: Neuve Chapelle, 2nd Battle of Ypres &c. Good personal account written by the CO "in a personal but informative style" (Perkins). Many officers mentioned by name & named group photo. of officers. Orig. red cloth, titled in black to front & sp., VG. See illustration on our website.
£50
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FETHERSTONHAUGH (R.C.)
The 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada 1914-1919.
1st Ed., xv+344pp., frontis. + 9 plates, 3 fldg. maps. Published by the Regiment.
1925
#63157
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Fine record of service on the Western Front being: "A substantial & detailed account of the Battalion's movements & battles between Feb. 1915 & Nov. 1918... includes quotations from operational orders & as expected from this author, the entire work is lucid & authoritative." - Perkins. Includes Ypres 1915, Festubert, Givenchy, Ploegsteert, Vimy Ridge 1915-16 & again in 1917, Somme, Passchendaele, Amiens 1918, Final Advance &c. Roll of Hon., awards. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to sp. & front, covers stained & worn but sound & complete. See illustration on our website.
£75
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NOVA SCOTIA: HUNT (Capt. M.S.) Comp.
Nova Scotia's Part in the Great War.
1st Ed., xvi+434pp., portrait frontis., many other portraits. Halifax, NS: The Nova Scotia Veteran Pubg. Co. Ltd.
1920
#64811
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Contains accounts of various Canadian infantry battalions, Siege & Field Batteries of the Canadian Artillery, CAMC, Forestry Corps &c., with various rolls & portraits throughout of mainly distinguished or fallen officers. "The Province sent drafts to fill the ranks of many different CEF units. This book is a compendium of histories of those units, with many individuals named in the text..." - Perkins. Covers the work of a number of infantry battalions & other units, with many portraits of killed or wounded officers. Orig. red cloth, titled in black, front inner joint neatly taped repaired, minor wear, generally VG. See illustration on our website.
£45
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TOPP (Lt.-Col. C. Beresford, DSO, MC)
The 42nd Battalion, C.E.F., Royal Highlanders of Canada, In The Great War.
1st Ed., xii+413pp., frontis., 2 col. plates, 20 photos. Montreal: Gazette Printing Co.
1931
#65965
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Served in France/Flanders with 3rd canadian Div. from Oct. 1915: Ypres salient/Mount Sorrel, The Somme, Vimy, Passchendaele & 1918 battles. "A comprehensive & intimate account of the Bn's services on the Western Front, with many members mentioned by name & eyewitness accounts woven in. The author covers periods of front-line combat & behind-the-lines rest & recovery equally well... The book is attractive to handle, the maps are very good & the nominal roll exceptionally useful." - Perkins (although he laments the lack of an index). Orig. red cloth, gilt, VG. See illustrations on our website.
£145
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WINEGARD (Timothy C.)
Indigenous Peoples of the British Dominions & the First World War.
1st Ed., xiv+312pp., 20 illus., 4 maps, 10 tables. VG in dw. Cambridge Univ. Press.
2012
#61838
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The peoples of Canada, Australia, Newfoundland, NZ & South Africa, whom, it is demonstrated, "responded with patriotism & enthusiasm both on the battlefield & the home front & shared equally in the horrors & burdens of the First World War." - sleeve notes. Rare original hardback edition, VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£45
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