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MACDONELL (R., CBE) & MACAULAY (M.)
A History of the 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles 1857-1937.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., xvi+433 & viii+247pp., 28 plates, 11 fldg. maps in end-pocket of Vol. II, 18 in text. Blackwood.
1940
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Num. campaigns inc. Umbeyla, Hazara, Lushai, 2nd Afghan war & var. other NW & NE Frontier excursions, China 1900, 1st Bn. Western Front 1914-15 then Gallipoli, Waziristan 1917 & 3rd Afghan War; 2nd Bn. in Mespot. Both bns. on the Frontier in the inter-war years. Roll of British officers, WW1 Roll of Hon., awards. Pictorial eps & marginal decoration throughout by Lt.-Col. C.G. Borrowman. "A lavish & satisfying pair of books which cover the stated period in very uniform & interesting detail." - Perkins 501. Orig. green cloth, blocked black, copy no. 206 of 250 copies only printed, this copy owned by P. Mulcahy-Morgan, an ECO commissioned in the regiment in 1941 who served with the 3rd Bn. in Waziristan/NWF, then in the 1944 Chindit expedition & wounded in Burma in 1945. VG throughout.
£350
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