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1/6th Battn. London Regiment: Battalion Christmas Card 1917.
Attractive card with regimental crest to front & insert (held in with red & green cord tie) depicting the battalion's battles & engagements from March 1915-August 1917, with appealing sketches. VG with inscrip. from Fred Hobbs to Mother & loosely inserted photo. of two soldiers of the battalion, one presumably Hobbs. See illustrations on our website.
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£30
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A Soldier of England: Memorials of Leslie Yorath Sanders: Born July 5th, 1893, Killed in Action March 10th, 1917.
1st Ed., [vii]+145pp., portrait frontis. Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son, Printers.
1920
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Sanders was at Trinity College Cambridge in & enlisted in Queen Victoria's Rifle in 1914, went to France in Feb. 1915 & wounded at Hill 60 in April - an event of which he leaves an interesting account. He was commissioned in the RGA but when he returmed to France in Nov. 1916 he was attached to 3rd Field Survey Coy., RE, & killed when a shell burst in the HQ office in which he was working. Contains interesting & sometimes intensely poignant letters from the front in 1915 & 1916-17, various letters of condolence &c. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£145
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History of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles.
1st Ed., xvi+489pp., col. frontis., 26 photos., 14 maps. Printed for the Regt.
1921
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Detailed history: 1st Bn. Western Front 1915-18; 2nd Bn. F&F briefly then Palestine & back to France in 1918. Nominal roll, awards &c. VG ex-IWM lib.
£25
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History of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles.
1st Ed., xvi+489pp., col. frontis., 26 photos., 14 maps. Printed for the Regt.
1921
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15th London Regiment. Detailed history: 1st Bn. Western Front 1915-18; 2nd Bn. F&F briefly then Palestine & back to France in 1918. Nominal roll, awards &c. Orig. grey cloth, titled in blue, VG, nice copy. See illustration on our website.
£35
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Illustrated Programme of The Royal Jubilee Procession, June 22nd [1897].
Authorised by H.R.H. The Price of Wales, K.G., Published in Aid of the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund for London. Orig. dec. wraps., 60pp., drawings throughout. Printed for The Prince of Wales Hospital Fund by George Robert Parker & Augustus Fildes Thomas.
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Full listing of those dignitaries, regiments, Foreign Missions &c. participating in the parade through London to mark Queen Victoria's Jubilee inc. the names of The Deputation of Officers of The Imperial Service Troops (Indian officers), the Escort from The Regular Indian Army (around 50 Indian officers of the Indian cavalry) & more, followed by fine drawings of the various contingents & carriages. VG. See illustrations on our website.
£60
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Letters from France written home by Captain Llewelyn Jones, 1/3rd Batt. London Regiment and Tributes from Friends.
1st Ed., xxiii+181pp., 222x148mm, portrait frontis., 21 other photos. & a facsimile letter written before going into action at Arras in April 1917. Printed for Private Circulation. nd [c.1921].
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Memoir and letters of John Llewelyn Thomas Jones compiled by his father. "Llew" was born in 1895 and grew up at Llangollen, where he went to the Llangollen County School. He entered his father's firm in London (his father was Chairman of the Paddington and Bayswater Chamber of Commerce) then joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in October 1915, being gazetted to the 3rd London Regiment in August 1916. Posted to France in October 1916, he was listed as missing in action on 16th August 1917, commanding "D" Company in an attack at Ypres. He was twenty-two and is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery. Lengthy letters from the Front, occupying 86pp., are followed by numerous letters of condolence etc. Orig. patterned cloth covered boards with blind wheat cloth spine, this copy complete with plain paper dw & loosely inserted presentation letter from the subject's father, dated 1938. See illustrations on our website.
£275
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No. 593556 Rfn. Henry Nicholls, 18th Bn. London Regiment (The Lonon Irish Rifles).
Sundry service papers including Discharge Certificate; Character Certificate; Notification of Award of Pension &c., together with printed leaflets: Soldiers Pensions 1917 & Disabled Sailors & Soldiers (a Ministry of Pensions publication, dated 1917) & one or two minor documents.
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Henry Nicholls enlisted at Bethnal Green in June 1916, served in France/Flanders from November 1916 to June 1917 when he was wounded (GSW, left forearm). He was discharged as no longer fit for military service in June 1918. See illustration on our website.
£45
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Photographs & Sketches of The Post Office Rifles in France & Calendar for 1916.
Wall-hanging calendar, 320x255mm approx., consisting of 16 leaves: (1) Cover with decorative title, badge, coloured borders; (2) Photo. portraits of Colonel-in-Chief, CO, Adjt., QM & RSM; (3) 1st Bn. on Parade at Abbots Langley Before Leaving for France, March 1915; (4-15) Monthly calendars with many appealing & mostly humorous sketches by Sgt. F.H. Turner; (16) Caricatures of CO & Lt. Peel. Art paper throughout, 7 photos. & 20 sketches in all, with red/green ribbon tie at top for hanging The Regt. Contemp.
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Appealing contemp. 8th London Regt. regimental souvenir & doubtless a rare survival. Little dusty & chipped, generally VG. See illustrations on our website.
£125
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Territorial Battalions of the Regiments of Surrey & Their Successors.
2nd Ed., revised., orig. dec. card wraps., 108pp. approx. 40 photos., plate of badges. Regimental Museum.
1992
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Illustrated history containing an account of each TA infantry unit of the Surrey & East Surrey Regiments & the amalgamated Queen's Royal Regiment, inc. several London Regt. battalions, 21st, 22nd, 24th, also 4th & 5th Surreys &c., including personal recollections of a number of members. VG. See illustration on our website.
£15
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The 2/1st London Field Ambulance: An Outline of the 4 1/2 Years Service of a Unit of the 56th Division at Home & Abroad during the Great War 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 104pp., portrait frontis., 8 photos., 2 fldg. maps. Morton, Burt & Sons Ltd.
1924
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Inc. Battle of the Somme 1916 when thousands poured through their ADS located at Hebuterne (of which there are several interesting photos.) & back to the MDS at Couin. Later at Arras in 1917 & 1918, Third Ypres, March Retreat &c. Locations of MDSs &c. shown on fldg. map. Roll of Hon., awards. Sp. & corners little rubbed, some splitting to spine, original ownership inscrip. on front paste-down heavily obliterated with black ink, generally sound, superior edition bound in full brown morocco, gilt to front. Rare. See illustration on our website.
£95
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