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Yeomanry   51 Books
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1st Derbyshire Yeomanry Scrapbook 1939-1947. 1st Ed., xii+183pp., 4to, photos. throughout, 3 maps (one fldg.). Derby: Bemrose. 1948  #68327
[HLMainPic] Armoured recce regiment in North Africa, Italy & Austria. Roll of Hon., awards. Detailed & well-illustrated history. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, VG ex-IWM with minor markings. See illustration on our website.   £50
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
Army Estimates of Effective & Non-Effective Services, for the Year 1911-12; 1912-1913; 1913-1914; 1914-1915; 1915-1916; 1916-1917; 1917-1918; 1918-1919. Together with Statements of the Variations of the Numbers of His Majesty's British Forces; Explanations of the Increases & Decreases in the Estimates; the amounts provided for each Arm of the Service & for various Miscellaneous Establishments; the amounts included for the Colonies & Egypt, & the net Army Expenditure for Ten Years. Printed by Command of His Majesty. ii+225, ii+225, ii+228, ii+228, 8, 6, 6 & 6pp., foolscap. HMSO. Contemp.  #68941
[HLMainPic] Detailed annual projections on the cost of maintaining the Army and its commitments worldwide (including some material on costs of maintaining forces in colonies, and cost of maintaining Army in the field (but not generally India & the Indian Army as these costs borne by India Office). Includes the cost of running the militia, training and pension establishments, military prisons, cost of recruiting, purchase of horses, cost of medals, cost of pay and allowances of troops, cost of each military district, cost of running every regiment, ordnance, warlike stores, &c. The scale and organisation of the Army at home and abroad, and the cost of running different establishments, from the largest to the minor (e.g. the Royal Hibernian Military School, with pay estimates from the Commandant down to through the ranks of the Serjeant Tailor, Serjeant Gardener &c, through to the Ploughman & Labourer - similarly detailed costings for the Military Asylum, School of Musketry, &c.). Much detail on the establishment & cost of the various Volunteer Corps', Yeomanry Cavalry, Militia &c. Please note that the war years 1915-16 through to 1918-19 are published in abbreviated form only. The issues here offered, 1911-19, bound together in red cloth, VG ex-Admiralty lib. See illustrations on our website.   £125
General Annual Report on The British Army For the Year Ending 30th September, 1912, With Which is Incorporated the Annual Report of Recruiting. Prepared by Order of the Army Council. War Office, 1913. 1st Ed., orig. blue printed paper wraps., iv+126pp. (plus one replacement leaf loosely inserted). Printed for HMSO by Harrison & Sons. 1913  #69195
[HLMainPic] The Annual Report contains a large number of statistical tables including the Establishment & Strength of the Army; ditto by Arms; details of numbers of troops embarked for India & other countries; Punishments & Rewards; Nationality, Religion & Education (which reveals, for instance, that of the Regular Army in that year, of 234,901 other ranks, 183,891 & 3076 were of English & Welsh origin, respectively; 18,253 were Scottish & 21,421 were Irish [the small balance made up of soldiers born in India or the Colonies, &c.]). Includes various similar tables for the Army Reserve, Militia & Yeomanry, also stats. re Horses & Mules, alongside a detailed 40pp. Report of the Director of Recruiting & Organization on recruiting during the year. Much interesting detail that provides an excellent basis for research on the make-up of the Army of the era: average age, length of service, courts martial & deserters, drunkenness, those re-engaging or taking discharge, & so forth. Orig. blue printed paper wraps., VG. 1500 copies printed. See illustration on our website.   £50
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
Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers, with a Memorial. With a Memoir by Harry Graham. 1st Ed., vii+200pp., 220x146mm, portrait frontis. SPCK. 1919  #69335
[HLMainPic] Algernon Villiers, a deeply religious and spiritual man as evidenced by the memoir and 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, P.C., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O. (sometime British Minister and Ambassador at Brussels), and Lady Villiers; he married Beatrix Villiers (later The Hon. Mrs. Walter Gibbs), of Stanstead Lodge, Stanstead Abbots, Herts., in 1912. He was educated at Wellington College and Magdalen College, Oxford, then entered a stockbroker's office. He enlisted in 1914 and went to Egypt as a Trooper in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry before returning for a commission in the Lothian and Borders Horse early in 1915. Villiers later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, went to France in July 1917 and was killed in action on 23rd November 1917 at Bourlon Wood with the 121st Company M.G.C. He was thirty-one and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial (although originally buried in the cemetery at Anneux). The memoir is followed by letters from Egypt and the United Kingdom, 1914-17, then around 100pp. 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, rather rubbed & worn, sound.   £75
Middlesex Hussars Machine Gun Section &c. Album containing approx. 80 snapshots.  #69017
[HLMainPic] Early 20th Century album, 19x14cm approx., containing around 80 snapshots, most captioned, including scenes of family holidays &c (notably Bruges, Antwerp & Luxembourg)., with a good sequence of a dozen views of the Middlesex Yeomanry MG Section in training at Ling, Norfolk in 1915, & a number of other wartime views inc. three at Eastern General Hospital, Brighton, in 1918. Green cloth binding, VG. See illustrations on our website.   £75

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