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ROE (Lt.-Col. C.H., RE)
Historical Record of the 2nd "Queen Victoria's Own" Madras Sappers & Miners. From 1780 to 1923.
[ii]+245+[v]+39+[v]+46+[iii]+31pp. Bangalore: 2nd "Q.O." S. & M. Press For Private Circulation Only. 1921/1923.
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Complete edition, containing reissue of the original 1780-1910 work by Roe (includes 44 campaigns & expeditions in which the regiment was involved, inc. Burma, China, Indian Mutiny, Persia, Abyssinia, Sudan NWF, Somaliland, Tibet &c. Table of stations by companies, alphabetical list of officers with dates of service, lists of those killed & wounded) followed by new sections by 'The Commandant' (Roe) on 1910-1919 & Lt.-Col. R.L. McClintock on 1914-1919 & 1919-1923. The latter parts includes details of various Companies on various fronts in WW1 & after with Rolls of Hon., awards, roll of officers (with dates of service), &c. "full of interesting detail" - Perkins 438 (for Part I) & 439 for this complete edition. The final part (Vol. II [2]) covering 1919-1923 is particularly rare. Contemp. Indian green cloth, titled in black to front (but this indistinct) with later black cloth lettering label to sp., VG thus with ownership inscrip. "P.W. Welsford-White, Madras S & M 1928." Rare.
£375
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