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A Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in Peace & War. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 60pp. No imprint/date (c.1919)  #66930
[HLMainPic] 2nd South Midland Mounted Field Ambulance, TF, served in Gallipoli, Egypt & Palestine. Detailed appendices include details of those KiA, DoW, wounded, noting date & location; roll of awards & a complete nominal roll of the unit noting theatres of war in which each member served. Orig. dec. paper wraps., VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £95
Egyptian Army List: The Yearly Army List 1923. A Distribution List of Officers on the Active & Disponibilite List of the Army, List of Officers in Possession of Orders, &c. &c. 174pp. Cairo: Government Press. 1923  #63404
[HLMainPic] Rare EA List (just 295 copies printed) containing HQ Staff of the Army, administration of Military Districts, regiments & corps, Military Works Dept. &c. &c., with an Index. Bound in modern green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.   £145
Historical Records of the XXX. Regiment. 1st Ed., ix+283pp. Clowes. 1887  #64337
[HLMainPic] East Lancashire Regt. Campaigns include Egypt 1800, Peninsular War, Waterloo 1815, India 1819-28 inc. siege of Asseerghur &c., Crimean War, &c., "as far as possible made up of the narratives of officers & others who actually served in the operations they describe..." Officers' services details. Orig. yellow cloth, gilt, soiled o/w VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.   £145
Letters & Memorials of Captain William A. Douglas, 6th Bn. The Royal Scots. With a Preface by the Rev. James Black, Broughton Place U.F. Church, Edinburgh. 1st Ed., viii+255pp., 192x133mm, portrait frontis., 32 photos. Edinburgh: Printed and Published by Andrew Brown. 1920  #66059
[HLMainPic] William Anderson Douglas was born in 1890 and educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, becoming an electrical engineer employed by James Gray & Son, Ironmongers. He was a pre-war Territorial officer in the 6th Royal Scots and mobilized with that unit in 1914, initially to Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, then to Egypt 1915-16 and finally to the Western Front in May 1916 where he was killed in action during the night of 24th August, commanding an entrenching party about 1000 yards south-south-west of Guillemont. Captain Douglas was commanding "W" Company at the time of his death; he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was twenty-six years old. Detailed letters (mostly wriiten to his mother) describing the activities of the Western Frontier Force in the Egyptian Desert (at places better known in 1941-42: Mersah Matruh, Sollum etc.), then for several months in France. These are followed by obituaries and a selection of letters of condolence. Orog. purple cloth, gilt to spine and front sp. & edges sunned, o/w VG.   £165
Regimental History of New Zealand Cyclist Corps in The Great War 1914-1918. By Officers. 1st Ed., 139pp., portrait frontis., 40 photos. Auckland: W&T. 1922  #66111
[HLMainPic] "An interesting & complete account of this small Corps... Almost the entire narrative is devoted to their services in Egypt & on the Western Front... they saw much hard service at Messines, Gravenstafel, Passchendaele, Kemmel, etc., in the infantry role & as cable layers." - Perkins. Roll of Hon., awards, nominal rolls. Orig. brown cloth, titled in black, VG & scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £145
The 26th Squadron RE: A History of the Squadron from its Formation in 1855 to the Present. 2nd Ed., corrected & brought up to date, orig. dec. laminated card wraps., [vi]+40pp., oblong 4to, 29 illus., (mostly photos.), 3 maps. The Regt. 1988  #63789
[HLMainPic] Fist published in 1958 & this edition corrected & revised to date of publication. Includes useful illustrated account of, inter al, Nile Expedition 1884-85, Boer War, WW1 Western Front, WW2 BEF 1940 & NW Europe 1944-45, post war Northern Ireland tours in 1972 & 1974. Orig. laminated card wraps., VG & scarce in any edition. See illustration on our website.   £50
The Gallant Legion. Complete set of 12 Vols. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1930s.  #66392
[HLMainPic] Angus & Robertson was the most prolific publisher of war memoirs in Australia after the Great War & produced a number of notable & several classic texts recording the experiences of Australian men & women in the Army, Naval, Nursing & Air services. At some point during the late 1930s, presumably to give a new lease of life to unbound sheets, the publisher reissued all these works in a series called The Gallant Legion. The sheets of various (but not 1st) editions were bound in excellent quality blue cloth with the series title at the head of the spine, plus the number of the volume in the series, with the individual volume title & author below, & a fighting soldier motif at the foot of the spine. All the volumes in this edition are complete as per the original texts, with all maps & photos. as originally published. This fine body of work, complete here in 12 volumes, includes: IDRIESS (Ion L.) The Desert Column; MAXWELL (J., VC, MC, DCM) Hell's Bells & Mademoiselles; WHITE (T.W.) Guests of the Unspeakable; RULE (E.J., MC, MM) Jacka's Mob; WILLIAMS (H.R.) The Gallant Company; TILTON (May) The Grey Battalion; REID (Frank) The Fighting Cameliers; MORROW (Edgar) Iron in the Fire; BURTON (O.E., MM) The Silent Division: New Zealanders at the Front 1914-1919; JONES (T.M.) Watchdogs of the Deep: Life in a Submarine During the Great War; SUTHERLAND (L.W., MC, DCM) Aces & Kings; MONASH (Gen. Sir John) The Australian Victories in France in 1918. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG throughout & excellent complete set. See illustrations on our website.   £425
The Navy List Corrected to the 20th September 1882. Royal Navy & Royal Marines, seniority lists + full ship listings (noting appointments in the ship &c.), complete with alphabetical listing of all officers. Also lists of Coastguards, their stations & date of appointment. Later blue cloth, gilt, VG thus. See illustration on our website.  #66360
[HLMainPic]   £20
The Navy List Corrected to the 20th September 1885. Royal Navy & Royal Marines, seniority lists + full ship listings (noting appointments in the ship &c.), complete with alphabetical listing of all officers. Also lists of Coastguards, their stations & date of appointment. Contemp. half calf, marbled paper boards, with modern Dymo label to sp. identifying date. VG thus. See illustration on our website.  #66361
[HLMainPic]   £25
The Palestine News. The Weekly Newspaper of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force of the British Army in Occupied Enemy Territory. First Year, No. 42, Thursday, 19th December, 1918. 16pp., tabloid format (40x30cm). Published Every Thursday at GHQ, First Echelon, Palestine.  #62666
[HLMainPic] Includes local (military & civil) & world news, announcement of the forthcoming "Record of the EEF." Worn & fragile but scarce survival.   £35

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