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Army & Militia. Annual Report of The Inspector-General of Recruiting for the Year 1901. Orig. printed wraps., 39pp., foolscap, fldg. table. HMSO. 1902  #64894
[HLMainPic] Including sections on recruiting for the Regular Army, Militia & Imperial Yeomanry, together with General Observations & notes on the Civil Employment of Discharged Soldiers & Reservists. This edition includes such interesting matter as recruiting for the South African Constabulary, including options offered to regular soldiers to be seconded. During the year War Office Recruiters found 4571 me for the SAC, & SAC Recruiting Officers 3168, a total of 7739 for the year. Various interesting tables &c. Orig. printed wraps., VG, 1250 copies printed & scarce survival. See illustration on our website.   £45
Army & Militia. Annual Report of The Inspector-General of Recruiting for the Year 1902. Orig. printed wraps., 43pp., foolscap. HMSO. 1903  #64895
[HLMainPic] Including sections on recruiting for the Regular Army, Militia & Imperial Yeomanry, together with War Recruiting & Concluding Remarks, General Observations & notes on the Civil Employment of Discharged Soldiers & Reservists. This edition includes such interesting matter as Statement Showing the Period of Engagement, Ages on Enlistment & Re-Enlistment, Pay, Bounties, Gratuities, &c., for the various Corps raised during the South African War. Various other interesting tables &c. Orig. printed wraps., VG, 1750 copies printed & scarce survival. See illustration on our website.   £45
History of the Pembroke Yeomanry. 1st Ed., viii+107pp., photos., map. Haverfordwest: The Regt. 1959  #66258
[HLMainPic] Inc. WW1 in Palestine & WW2 Middle East. Addenda covering period 1959-1967 (12pp.) loosely inserted. Rolls of officers. Orig. blue cloth, dampspotted, generally VG. See illustration on our website.   £30
Imperial Yeomanry (In Great Britain) Training Return, 1902 [Together with:] Imperial Yeomanry (In Great Britain & Ireland) Training Return, 1904 [And:] Imperial Yeomanry (In Great Britain & Ireland) Training Return, 1906. Three issues, orig. printed wraps., each 3pp., foolscap. HMSO. Contemp.  #64901
[HLMainPic] Each contains a tabulated statement of the strength of each unit, plus other details. Orig. printed wraps., little chipped & worn, VG. 700 copies printed of the first two, & 1000 of the third. See illustration on our website.   £45
Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers, with a Memorial. With a Memoir by Harry Graham. vii+200pp., portrait frontis. SPCK. 1919  #66010
[HLMainPic] Algernon Villiers, a deeply religious and spiritual man as evidenced by the memoir & the contents of his letters (although they do not exclude military details and an account of his active service experience) was the youngest son of the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis Hyde Villiers, PC, GCMG, GCVO (sometime British Minister and Ambassador at Brussels), & Lady Villiers; he married Beatrix Villiers (later The Hon. Mrs. Walter Gibbs), of Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbots, Herts., in 1912. He was Ed. at Wellington College and Magdalen College, Oxford then entered a stockbroker's office. He enlisted in 1914 & went to Egypt as a trooper in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before returning fro a commission in the Lothian & Borders Horse early in 1915. Villiers later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, went to France in July 1917 & was Killed in Action in France on 23rd November 1917 at Bourlon Wood with the 121st Company. He is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial (although originally buried in the cemetery at Anneux). The memoir is followed by letters from Egypt and the UK, 1914-17, then around 100 pages of letters from the Western Front followed by some zealously Christian "Papers read to Machine-Gun Pupils." Orig. pale blue cloth, gilt to front and spine, minor wear, VG. See illustration on our website.   £125
Suffolk Territorials & The Great War. Brief History of the Territorial Force Association & Record of the Units in the Field. 1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 36pp., 15 photos. Ipswich: East Anglian Daily Times. nd (c.1920)  #66539
[HLMainPic] Including the Suffolk Yeomanry, East Anglian Brigade RFA, RGA, 4th & 5th Suffolks, &c. Roll of awards. VG. See illustration on our website.   £45
[BROWN (Cedric Clifton)] Cedric's Letters During the Great War 1914-1919. 1st Ed., ix+162pp., real photo. portrait frontis., 4 maps (2 fldg.). Printed for Private Circulation by Clowes & Sons. 1926  #66089
[HLMainPic] Subaltern, Sussex Yeomanry at Gallipoli, subsequently Worcester Yeomanry in Palestine until transferred to Grenadier Guards Oct. 1917: Part I (Gallipoli from Oct. 1915-Jan. 1916, including a good account of the evacuation) occupies 36pp, letters from Egypt & Palestine (first battle of Gaza &c.) 50pp. & 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards in France & Germany, April 1918-Feb. 1919 some 74pp. Handsome & rare privately published work, orig. blue cloth, gilt, rear a little stained & corners rubbed o/w VG & inscribed by the author: "To Eric Flint from Cedric." See illustration on our website.   £165

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[KINDELL (Lt. A.O.W.)] Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine-Gun Squadron. 1st Ed., [vii]+180pp., 4 plates, fldg. map. [J.M. Baxter & Co. for Private Circulation. 1920].  #66474
[HLMainPic] Formed from the MG sections of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry & South Notts. Hussars for the 7th Mounted Bde. in July 1917 & later served with the 14th Cav. Bde., 5th Cav. Div. Fascinating account. Attractive orig. pictorial cloth, VG & rare. See illustration on our website.   £165
[THESIGER (Percy M.)] Sketches by a Kent Yeoman 1914-1918. 1st Ed., orig. limp dec. wraps. 68pp., 4to, illus. throughout. Melrose. nd  #66400
[HLMainPic] Some 150 attractive drawings, humorous & otherwise, of scenes in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine & France (with many locations identified). Dedicated by the author to his old comrades of the East & West Kent Yeomanry & 10th Buffs. VG, scarce. See illustrations on our website.   £120
ADAMS (Capt. R.E.C., MC, East Surrey Regt.) The Modern Crusaders. 1st Ed., viii+183pp., 16 photos., map. Routledge. 1920  #65754
[HLMainPic] Very nicely detailed account of the campaign in Egypt & Palestine 1917-18 by Brigade Major of 231st Infantry Bde. (made up of dismounted Yeomanry: 24th [Denbigh Yeo.] Bn. RWF; 25th [Montgomery Yeo. & Welsh Horse] Bn. RWF; 24th [Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeo.] Bn., Welsh Regt. & 10th [Shropshire & Cheshire Yeo.] Bn. KSLI, plus 210th MG Coy. & 231st Light Trench Mortar Battery). Includes Composition of 231st Inf. Bde., 74th Yeomanry Div., & much interesting detail on their operations at Gaza, capture of Jerusalem &c. "This clever & witty book was published out of the due season for works of its class & seems to have fallen on rather stony ground. It is one of the best matter-of-fact records of any British theatre of the late war. The author was Brigade Major of the 231st Brigade (of dismounted Yeomanry - magnificent troops) and his story is that of Lord Allenby's first offensive in Palestine. After the great German March offensive in France his division was transferred to the country, and his diary then comes to an end. The humours of war were very real but are poorly represented in literature, which makes Captain Adams's journal all the more valuable." - Falls (awarding a rare two star accolade). Orig. red cloth, stained & worn but sound & complete, & rare. See illustration on our website.   £120

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