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TURBERVILLE (Capt. A.S., MC)
A Short History of the 20th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (B.E.L. Pioneers) 1915-1919.
1st Ed., viii+143pp. Hull: Goddard, Walker & Brown, Ltd.
1923
#70682
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Rare locally printed history of Service battalion raised by the British Empire League in London in Augusr 1915; served as Pioneer Battalion of the 3rd Division from May 1915 to the armistice, initially in the Ypres salient, then on the Somme inc. the capture & clearance of the Bazentins &c., the Ancre, Arras & 3rd Ypres 1917, German Spring Offensives & Final Advance 1918. Much of interest on the work of a Pioneer Battalion. Orig. green cloth, gilt to sp., regimental device to front, VG.
£145
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