Blampied Captain John (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second impression, September 1918. (7 pp), 165 pages, 48 black nd white plates (including map), good /very good condition in original cloth binding, top and bottom of spine bumped, marks on the front board, small portion torn away from the lower corner of page 43/44 otherwise text in very good, clean condition.

Octavo, original cloth, [x], 165 pp. Very good condition. History of the 2nd Battalion (Black Watch) Highlanders, stationed in India since the Boer War and sent to France in 1914. From January 1916 the Black Watch were deployed in Mesopotamia. This account, penned anonymously by Captain Blampied, contains two chapters by Colonel Wauchope, the commanding officer. An appendix of casualties across the ranks shows the disturbing prevalence of death by disease, especially septicaemia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, second impression, pp, 165, many illustrations, recently recased gilt titled blue cloth, fresh endpapers, spine faded, fore-edge slightly foxed.

First Edition, Second Impression (September 1918; the first impression was May 1918). Publisher's blue buckram with gilt lettering to the front cover and spine. Ex Imperial War Museum stock with discreet stamps and 'Withdrawn from stock' mark, but no other library labels or marks. 12mo. pp. 165 notably with 219 black and white photographs and 3 maps. A First World War memoir of a member of the 2nd Battalion Black Watch, a constituent battalion of the 21st Brigade, Tigris Force which fought at the siege of Kut-al-amara. Includes a brief service record of each officer and a Roll of Honour for the Battalion. The author and battalion are not expressly identified in the book, but were later identified from the contents of the service records. A book in Good condition with a tight binding, with worn but complete covers and spine. Half-title hinge partly detached, tear to title page, but otherwise undamaged with clean contents.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt to the front board. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. A First World War memoir of a member of the 2nd Battalion Black Watch, a constituent battalion of the 21st Brigade, Tigris Force which fought at the siege of Kut-al-amara. Includes a brief service record of each officer and a Roll of Honour for the Battalion. Contains (x), 165 pp with 3 maps and monochrome photographs on coated paper throughout. Ink message to the front paste down 'To Mrs Twine, 22 Norfolk Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England - From Sapper Al Twine 502214, 63rd H.A.L. Section, Royal Engineers, Mesopotamia, September 8th, 1918.' Light spotting to the end papers, spine sun faded and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. FIRST WORLD (Great) WAR.