Despatch Rider's Primer and Alphabet of Map Reading (Conventional Signs)

Despatch Rider's Primer in original printed cloth covered wraps 11 x 14cm. 27pp + 6pp for Notes + 2pp publisher's adverts. The acknowledgments are dated 25 June 1941, and printing date 1944. Near fine, lightly creased. This covers map reading, measuring distances, navigation, messaging, recon, traffic control, concealment, security, maintenance, etc. Laid in is the Alphabet of Map Reading (Conventional Signs), also by Croll, with symbols from the Ordnance Survey, 10 x 14cm folded, opening to 30 x 14cm, 6pp, with colour pictograms and space for notes. Good - tanned and worn with faint pencil notations. Although this states the conventional signs are those in use in Great Britain, it includes a couple of symbols for overseas theatres, notably mosques and palm trees. The author is credited to the Essex Scottish, Canadian Army Active Force. He thanks the Officer Commanding, 8 Canadian Reconnaissance Battalion (14H), and Major HFE Smith of the Royal Canadian Artillery, for their help. Russian born Croll came to Canada with his family as a young boy. Before WW2, he was a lawyer and first Jewish cabinet minister in Ontario. He enlisted with the Ontario-based Essex Scottish infantry regiment, at the outbreak of WW2, and received his commission in 1941. He helped develop training resources for dispatch riders. He rose to Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Oxford Rifles before the war ended. Afterwards, he returned to politics, becoming the first Jewish person appointed to Canada's Senate. …