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The 99th London Welsh Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 1939-1945.
1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 15pp., double page col. map. Printed by J.D. Hollmann, Hamburg, nd. Contemp.
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Largely a roll of the unit's personnel: HQ, officers of each battery, WOs, NCOs & men, but also a brief statement of movements, 1944-45 & map of same, from UK via Normandy through to Hamburg. Scarce. VG with loosely inserted wine list for a regimental dinner at Hamburg in 1945.
£65
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The Diary of 85 (Essex) Medium Battery Royal Artillery 1943-1945.
1st Ed., [viii]+144pp., 15 photos., 8 maps. Margate: Parrett (printers).
1947
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Normandy (landed on Juno beach 14/7/44), Falaise Gap, through France, the Scheldt, Walcheren & the Houthulst Forest, Rhine Crossing &c. Record kept in the battery officer's mess with various appendices inc. Roll of Honour, rolls of officers &c. Orig. blue cloth, gilt to front, VG & scarce.
£65
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49 (West Riding) Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps: Summary of Operations June 1944 to May 1945.
1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 24pp., 2 fldg. maps. Printed by Sauerlandische Druckerhai: Neuenkirchen. May
1945
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Concise yet informative & very rare history from Normandy to Germany with the 49th Division. Orig. grey card wraps., VG.
£165
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Advanced Base: The Story of 15/17 A.O.D.
1st Ed., orig. limp dec. wraps., 60pp., 4to (310x232mm), photos. throughout. Wisbech: Balding & Mansell Ltd.
1945
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Advanced Ordnance Depots during the campaign in North-West Europe 1944-45. Many photos. of the various facilities (including after being struck by V-1 & V-2 rockets) & a description of their work. VG & scarce.
£85
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Royal Engineers Battlefield Tour: Normandy to the Seine.
1st Ed., ix+187pp., foolscap, 30 photos., 26 maps (most fldg.). dw. Prepared under the direction of Chief Engineer British Army of the Rhine. Aug.
1946
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Restricted. "Prepared by HQ 8 AGRE so that succeeding generations of RE officers visiting the battlefields of N.E. Europe may get as realistic as possible a picture of the problems confronting the REs in a major campaign in Europe & of some of the methods used to solve them." Fabulous detail on RE aspects of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Breakout & advance to the Seine, inc. RE Order of Battle & numerous accounts by participating officers & NCOs. Excellent photos., very nicely printed on large plates inc. several fldg. panoramas, one an impressive view of the invasion fleet off Courseulles on D+4, another of the area of the 6th Airborne Div. landings. Equipment shown includes DD tanks, flail tank in action &c. Equally exceptional, detailed col. printed maps of operations, beach defences &c. Orig. brown cloth, gilt, in chipped dw (front panel of dw & front board dampstained o/w VG), ink. inscrip. 'The Property of Major R.G. Bishop, RE.' Rare.
£245
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The History of 11th (Essex) Medium Regiment Royal Artillery.
1st Ed., orig. printed wraps., 75pp., several sketch maps. Printed by Drukkerij Holders, Winterswijk. nd
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Normandy breakout at Falaise Gap &c. through Low Countries to the Rhine crossing. Roll of Hon., awards, nominal rolls of officers & men.
£85
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Our Share. No. 1 Company, 15 Air Formation Signals.
1st Ed., 69pp., 7 photos. Brussels: Printed by 'Imifi.' nd (c.1945).
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Royal Signals unit formed in 1943; to Northern Ireland for training; landed in Normandy in Aug. 1944 til end of war in Brussels. Various rolls of officers & men of the various Sections, & much interesting detail on the nature of work of the unit. Bound in later IWM red cloth, orig. wraps. bound in, stamps &c. of IWM, VG thus & scarce.
£75
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The Circus: Diary of 234 Field Company R.E., D Day - VE Day.
1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 36pp., col. illus. of medal ribbons, 2 sketches, lge. dec. fldg. map. No imprint/date [Dortmund, Germany, 1945]
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Appealing record/diary of the unit in preparation for D Day, then landing in Normandy on that auspicious day on the beaches near Courseilles & Gray-sur-Mer, when immediately in action under fire, fighting on til VE Day, just 337 days later! Includes Roll of Hon., awards, complete nominal roll of all ranks who landed in Normandy & later reinforcements. Includes superb large, coloured folding map of unit's movements 1944-45. VG.
£100
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From Normandy to Hanover, June 1944-June 1945. 84 Group 2nd T.A.F. Royal Air Force.
1st Ed., orig. dec. wraps., 48pp., 4to (246x185mm), map. No imprint/date [Germany, 1946]
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This Tactical Air Force Group flew thousands of missions (1016 on D Day alone) & destroyed huge amounts of EA on the ground, AFVs & other vehicles, knocked-out ammo dumps & railway stations. locomotives &c. in support of ground troops from pre-D Day onwards. Orig. dec. wraps. VG.
£75
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Rifle Brigade Chronicle 1944.
1st Ed., vi+240pp., num. portraits. RB Club.
1946
#69853
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Annual records of the RB including batalions in Italy & NW Europe, obits. of fallen officers, with portraits; also reminiscences of the Boer War & Burma 1886 expeditions by old officers. VG.
£15
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