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BOWMAM (Ghee)
The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk.
1st Ed., xix+284pp., 20 photos. VG in dw. Cheltenham: History Press.
2020
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The RIASC contingent in 1940, irs experiences & evacuation from Dunkirk. VG in dw. See illustration on our website.
£20
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BULLOCK (Brig. Humphrey, CIE, OBE)
History of the Army Service Corps. Volume I: 1760-1857.
2nd Ed., xi+259pp. VG in chipped dw. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
1976
#68380
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Scholarly work first published in 1952 by Gale & Polden which on its 1976 reprinting (here offered) became Volume I of the major five volume history of the Indian Army Service Corps from inception to 1962. This volume (vide Perkins, p. 519) "describes the Commissariat Dept. of the HEIC & its role in the Nepalese War (1814), First Burma War (1824-1826), First Afghan War (1838-1842), the two Sikh wars, the Second Burma War (1852-1853), the Persian War (1856-1857), & the siege of Lucknow (1857)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.
£145
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CRAWFORD (Driver Robert John, RASC)
I Was An Eighth Army Soldier.
As narrated to Major John Dalgleish, RASC. 4th Imp., 86pp., 8 photos., fldg. map. Gollancz.
1944
#66724
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Personal experiences with 1st Armd. Div., six months in the Western Desert until wounded in June 1942. Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£15
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DOPSON (F.W.)
The 48th Divisional Signal Company in the Great War.
1st Ed., 143pp., portrait frontis., 9 drawings by the author, 8 maps, 2 diagrams. Privately printed.
1938
#65945
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Western Front 1915-17 inc. Somme, Hindenburg Line & 3rd Ypres; then in Italy 1917-18 (Montello, Asiago &c.). Appealing sketches by the author (an NCO in the unit). Orig. wheat cloth, gilt to sp., dec. to front, VG & very scarce. See illustration on our website.
£125
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GILLAM (Major John Graham, DSO)
Gallipoli Diary.
1st Ed., 328pp., 13 plates. Allen & Unwin.
1918
#68186
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ASC 29th Division throughout the campaign; a detailed day-to-day diary/commentary of events. Rare 1st Ed., orig. cloth, VG. See illustration on our website.
£90
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HODY (Maj. E.H., RASC)
With the "Mad 17th" to Italy.
1st Ed., 160pp., fldg. col. frontis., 14 b/w plates, 2 maps. A&U.
1920
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17th Divisional Supply Column in France & Italy, by the CO. Orig. blue cloth, trace of old label to front paste-down o/w VG. See illustration on our website.
£35
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JOHNSTON (Stanley R.)
Memories of World War One 1914-1918.
[iii]+26pp. dup. typescript (rectos only), approx. 20 photos., A4 format, retained in stiff card covers with paper label to front.
#67438
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Privately circulated personal recollections of a Canadian who proceeded overseas in Dec. 1915 with the Canadian Army Service Corps (CASC, dubbed: Come And Shovel Coal) in the 3rd Canadian Division; arrived in England & spent two months at Bramshott Camp until posted to France in Feb. 1916. He provides an interesting description of their reception in England & of conditions on farms in rural France, & of ASC work taking provisions from railhead to battalion HQs. In May 1917 he discovered that as he was a pre-war University student he was entitled to apply for a commission, accordingly was sent to Bexhill for officer training & returned to France in September. Posted to the 78th Bn. CEF in the 9th Brigade, 4th Division, he took over command of Number 4 Platoon & served in the line at Ypres &c., describing the routine of relief & other events, including being gassed, with observations on the nature of war &c. interspersed. Reproduction of photos. as photocoipies reneders them very indistinct, altough still of interest, o/w VG. See illustrations on our website.
£85
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LEVY (Stanley J.)
Memories of the 71st & 83rd Companies, R.A.S.C., M.T., 1914-1918.
1st Ed., 176pp., frontis., 20 photos., 25 sketches. Printed for Private Circulation in an Edition of 200 copies by The Abbey Press, Westminster.
1931
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Finely produced record of these Mechanical Transport units of the ASC on the Western Front, with much interesting & intimate detail on their work & experiences. Operations include 1st, 2nd & 3rd Ypres; Neuve Chapelle; Loos; Battles of the Somme, &c. Orig. half blue morocco, cloth boards, gilt to front & spine, near fine. This example, No. 155 of just 200 produced, presented to former comrade H. Leppard. A particularly rare & informative record. See illustration on our website.
£165
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LIPSCOMBE (Mechanist Sergt-Major G., RASC)
The Peregrinations of the 34th Divisional (M.T.) Coy. (179 Coy. R.A.S.C.) During The Great War of 1914-1919.
1st Ed., [xi]+76pp., col. plate of div. & coy. signs., portrait frontis., 17 plates. Aldershot: G&P.
1920
#61686
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Rare & very nicely presented history. Includes a complete history, 1916-18, but mainly the battles of 1918 after the coy. was merged with the 180 MT Coy. from 18th Division in March 1918. Much on the German spring offensive &c. Nominal roll of officers & men. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG. See illustration on our website.
£95
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MAJUMDAR (Lt.-Col. B.N.)
History of the Army Service Corps. Volume II: 1858-1913.
1st Ed., xii+406pp. VG in chipped dw. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers.
1976
#68381
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Volume II of the major five volume history of the Indian Army Service Corps from inception to 1962. This volume (vide Perkins, p. 519) "describes the role of military transport in the campaigns of Umbeyla (1863), Bhutan (1864), Abyssinia (1867-1868), Second Afghan War (1878-1880), Third Burmese War (1885), Sikkim (1888-1890), the Frontier Risings (1888-1898), Manipur (1891), Chitral (1895), Tibet (1904)& the Abor Expedition (1911-1912)." Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG in chipped dw. See illustration on our website.
£145
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