Gilbert Browne Brigadier (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Contains black & white and one colour illustrations, also black & white maps. This is a heavy book so additional shipping will be required for sales abroad. Seller Ref: M5671.

1st Ed. Royal 8vo. viii + 88pp. 2 plates, 3 folding maps. Age toning, some spotting, with Museum Tenby Art Gallery ink stamp and library numbers to front f.e.p., gilt lettered brown cloth with gilt device to upper board and double blue diagonal stripes, some water marks, stain to head of spine, spine and corners frayed with couple of nicks to edges. With the signature and scholarly pencil notes of Lt.-Col. F. Day continuing the history from April 1932 to September 1935. With a fragment of a letter sent from 2nd Assyrian Bn. Iraq Levies Sulaimenia Iraq 18.1.31. to 'My darling mother . an excellent bridge player and a burra mendsahib of the worst type with a terrific tongue! I had a final lesson before my arabic exam of tomorrow, & my munshi bought with him a pair of carpets .'Detailed and very scarce history of the Levies, formed 1919 from various wartime irregular units and disbanded when Iraq became independent in 1932.John Gilbert Browne (1878-1968). He saw action with his regiment during the South African War 1900-1902, and was awarded the Queen's South African Medal and the King's South African Medal. September 1914 Browne was assigned to the staff of General H I W Hamilton, commanding the 3rd Division, in October he was appointed as GSO2 on the staff of the newly formed Cavalry Corps, commanded by Lt.-General Allenby, where he remained until the end of the month when he was recalled to England. Browne did not serve in France or Flanders again, taking up various appointments and commands in England until 1916 and then serving overseas as an officer with the Middle East and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces until the end of the war. In peacetime he commanded his own regiment 1921-25, which on 1 Oct 1922 amalgamated and was renamed the 14/20th King's Hussars.From 1925 until he retired in 1933, he served in the Middle East commanding the Iraq Levies. US$295.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Original 1932 edition. A historical record of the Iraq Levies, a British colonial force, detailing their role in military operations in the Middle East. An uncommon military item about this unit initially composed initially of 40 Mounted Arabs in 1915 which quickly grew into a much larger force and was transferred to the Iraq Army seventeen years later. Nice, tight, clean book, no writing or marks. See photos for condition.

1st Edition. 88 pages. Very good + brown cloth covers with gilt insignia on the front board. Internally very good with folding sketch maps and frontis ( with small imperial war museum ink stamp on the rear ) . Detailed and very scarce history of the Levies, formed 1919 from various wartime irregular units and disbanded when Iraq became independent in 1932. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. frontis, 3 folding maps, photo, index, 88p. Original brown cloth. 25 cm. Minor edge-wear on a few leaves. No jacket. An uncommon military item about this unit initially composed initially of 40 Mounted Arabs in 1915 which quickly grew into a much larger force and was tranferred to the Iraq Army seventeen years later.