Mainwaring Major a E (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Facsimile Reprint. Pages xiv + 271 with many in-text illustrations. With A Description Of The Operations In The Aden Hinterland. Interesting 'plain soldiers' history of a battalion which served in South Africa throughout the Boer War. Detailed breakdown of deaths, wounds, and diseases and a description of 'Winston Churchill's armoured train'. The Royal Dublin Fusiliers (RDF) was formed in 1881, as a result of the Cardwell reforms, by the linking of the 102nd Royal Madras Fusiliers with the 103rd Royal Bombay Fusiliers, which became respectively the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the regiment. Both battalions traced their origins back to the Honourable British East India Company, the 2nd Battalion being descended from the Bombay Regiment, formed in 1661,the first of the Company's European regiments. When the South African War broke out in 1899 the battalion was already in the country, having arrived in Natal from India in 1897, and so it had had time to get acclimatised and learn the topography of that colony. It remained in South Africa till the end of January 1902 and took part in the actions at Talana Hill, Colenso, Venter's Spruit, Ladysmith, Hart's and Pieter' Hills and elsewhere. This book claims only to be a plain soldier's narrative of the part taken by 2nd RDF - the fighting, the long and weary marches across the Transvaal and the monotonous life of constant vigil in fort, blockhouse and on escort duty. The appendices contain, among extracts from Battalion Orders, letters, telegrams etc, a detailed breakdown of casualties and this will be of great interest to medallists. There is also a description of the armoured train in which Winston Churchill was a passenger as a war correspondent just before he was captured by the Boers. The long list of those who died from disease gives place and date of death as well as the cause of death, e.g. dysentry, enteric fever and, interestingly enough, one struck by lightning and one suicide. The long list of the wounded not only gives date and place where wounded but also in most cases details of the wound; (in every case bar two shell splinter casualties, the wounds were caused by gunshot, which is a truibute to the accurate Boer marksmanship). There are lists of missing, reported at various dates, including 43 missing following the attack on the armoured train. ALL ORDERS DESPATCHED WITH A TRACKING NUMBER. (NMP-EES-WWY-U16By).

Facsimile reprint of original edition. Large format p/bk. 271pp. Beige and black spine. Illustrated. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original green cloth hardcover, large folding map, illustrated throughout with all plates present as called for, 438 pages, page edges untrimmed as issued, small tear without loss to top of outer hinge, page edges browned otherwise a very good bright and complete copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B181.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small demy8vo, portrait frontis, xiv, 271 pp. Eighteen plates and 49 illustrations in the text. Original green cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. VG tight copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xiv, 271 pages, black and white photos, sketches and maps throughout, inscribed on the front free endpaper by F.S. Lanigan-O'Keeffe 2/ Royal Dublin Fusiliers Aldershot 1911. First Edition. Slight rubbing to top and tail of spine and edges, light foxing to some pages, very good condition. Green cloth, gilt titles and shield to front board, gilt titles to spine, gilt top edge , octavo, 22.5 cm x 15 cm Hardback.

25 cm, xxii,437pp., with 54 plates, maps and plans (some colour), large rear folding map, appendices, some light foxing to the preliminary pages, dark green cloth with gilt regimental insignia & titles, fine. Subscriber's Copy John Salked Burra. With list of original subscribers (unusual with many privates from the Regiment). East India Company, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Plassey, Mahratta war, Buxar, Seringapatam, Mooltan, Second Sikh War.