Major Cuthbert Keeson (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Large book, 670 pages. Binding shaken but hinges strong. Significant wear and staining of covers. Profusely illustrated many plates and fold-out maps. The large fold out map in rear is missing but all others present. Beware the modern reprints, the illustrations are inferior reproductions and they do not have the fold-out maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 670pp, lacks dust wrapper as issued, illustrated, small interesting inscription to page 33, no other inscriptions although there is a small bookseller sticker to front paste down and one or two contemporary press cuttings stuck in at appropriate pints of text with some annotations by a previous reader who was clearly a member of the regiment who saw active service in World War One. There is slight rubbing to boards, especially corners and top and bottom of spine, some slight soiling, no fading. Text is bright and clean, hinges tight apart from a slight split to top of front hinge, no spotting, maps and fold outs undamaged apart from slight creasing to edge of one fold out, page edges are rough cut. Overall a nice condition copy. Heavy book, please inquire for postage outside the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. large 8vo, xxii, 670pp, photogravure frontispiece, 21 b/w plates, 21 folding maps, including a very large folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt with the Regiment badge blocked in red to centre of upper cover. A VG++ clean copy. (White: Regimental Histories of the British Army, page 202). This history of the QVRs (as they became known), covers the period from the earliest days up to the Great War in an appendix (185 pages) at the end of the book. According to tradition they were the descendants of The Duke of Cumberland's Corps of Sharpshooters which was inaugurated in September 1803. In 1859 it became the 1st Middlesex Rifle Volunteers and in 1892 and after a couple of mergers with other Middlesex Rifle Corps it became in 1908, when the TF was created, the 9th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles), allocated to the 3rd London Brigade, 1st London Division. Shortly after the outbreak of war in August 1914 a second line battalion was formed and in April 1915 a third line, thus we had 1/9th, 2/9th and 3/9th Battalions. The 1st London Division was broken up to provide reinforcements for the BEF and on 5th November 1914 the 1/4th landed at Havre and joined 13th Brigade, 5th Division. The battalion fought with 5th Division throughout 1915, at Hill 60, Second Ypres and St Julien. It was at Hill 60 that it gained the distinction of the first VC awarded to a Territorial - 2Lt G.H Woolley. There is today a memorial to the battalion on Hill 60. In Feb 1916 the 1st London Division was reformed in France as the 56th Division and the QVRs rejoined it in 169th Brigade. It fought with this division on the Somme, Arras, Third Ypres and Cambrai till transferring to the 58th Division in February 1918 where it joined with the 2/9th to become the 9th Battalion. The 2/9th came to France with 58th Division in Feb 1917 and fought at Bullecourt and Third Ypres before amalgamating with the 1/4th. The 9th Battalion remained with 58th Division and took part in the 1918 battles till the armistice. The 3/9th Battalion did not leave the UK but provided drafts for the other two battalions. An excellent Regimental history, it covers each battalion in turn - 1/9th, 2/9th, the amalgamated 9th and finally 3/9th. There is the Roll of Honour and a list of Honours and Awards, including Mentions in Despatches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Dark green hard cover with gilt lettering to the spine. Contains black & white illustrations and maps ( some fold out) with Appendices to the rear. There is a piece missing from the last blank page. Seller ref: M22438.

8vo. xxii[ii], 670pp, gravure frontis with tissue-guard, 20 plates, 20 maps (folding and multifolding), large multifolding map at rear loosely inserted. Original decorated blue cloth gilt. Front board damp-marked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/Fair. 1st Edition. Dark Green cloth hard cover with red ensigna on front cover and gilt lettering to spine - cloth has been rubbed quite extensively/bumped/Fair. 670 pages plus many plates and fold-out maps + large fold-out map at rear. Previous owner's name and address in pencil to inside front cover (can be rubbed out). Rough cut pages. Content Good+. (1209g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity correct postage will be asked for if more than default price quoted. (JJR).

Cloth. Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated history of Queen Victoria's Rifles, the 9th Battalion, London Regiment. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty plates, and seventeen folding maps. Collated, lacking three maps. A detailed and comprehensive history of The 9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment, or Queen Victoria's Rifles, a Territorial Army infantry battalion of the British Army. The London Regiment was formed in 1908 to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in the newly formed County of London, and the Queen Victoria's Rifles were one of twenty six units brought together in this way. With commentary from the first days of the battalion in 1792, training, procedures, and accounts of various battles through their history. Written by Major Charles Alfred Cuthbert Keeson, who rose through the ranks of the progressive offices of Victoria Rifles Lodge until he was installed as Worshipful Master in 1898. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Small puncture marks to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Good. book.