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Condition: New. SB v+323pp.,plans ,maps 2002 N&MP Reprint of 1907 Original EditionPublished Price £14.95 The subtitle makes clear the subject of this book, Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment In South Africa. This is the story of the 1st R Sussex in which the author served and which arrived in S Africa in April 1900. Du Moulinâs narrative takes the action up to the end of December 1900 which he wrote up during a quiet spell while the battalion was providing the garrison for Lindley but then had to give up when he got command of a mounted column. He was killed in action at Abrahamâs Kraal on 28 January 1902 having gone through the campaign from the advance to Pretoria, to the pursuit of de Wet and, after de Wet, the pursuit of the broken commandos without a wound or a dayâs sickness. However, as it had been his intention to write a complete account there were his notes and these, together with diaries, letters and personal reminiscences of other officers were used to complete the story, a task undertaken by Capt H.F.Bidder who describes du Moulinâs death. In the appendices there is an account of the 13th Mounted Infantry Battalion which included in its ranks 70 NCOs and men from the R Sussex, and of the 21st Mounted Infantry made up largely of R Sussex personnel.

Condition: New. HB v+323pp.,plans ,maps 2002 N&MP Reprint of 1907 Original Edition The subtitle makes clear the subject of this book, Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment In South Africa. This is the story of the 1st R Sussex in which the author served and which arrived in S Africa in April 1900. Du Moulinâs narrative takes the action up to the end of December 1900 which he wrote up during a quiet spell while the battalion was providing the garrison for Lindley but then had to give up when he got command of a mounted column. He was killed in action at Abrahamâs Kraal on 28 January 1902 having gone through the campaign from the advance to Pretoria, to the pursuit of de Wet and, after de Wet, the pursuit of the broken commandos without a wound or a dayâs sickness. However, as it had been his intention to write a complete account there were his notes and these, together with diaries, letters and personal reminiscences of other officers were used to complete the story, a task undertaken by Capt H.F.Bidder who describes du Moulinâs death. In the appendices there is an account of the 13th Mounted Infantry Battalion which included in its ranks 70 NCOs and men from the R Sussex, and of the 21st Mounted Infantry made up largely of R Sussex personnel.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained red, vi + 323pp + x appendix to rear, folding map to rear, illus/maps, G+ (heavy cracking & scuffing to spine, moderate to heavy chafing & discolouration to boards, heavy tanning & foxing to page edges, v heavy cracking to gutters- rear board partially detached, moderate water staining to front eps & prelims, light foxing throughout, moderate foxing to terminals & folding map, v heavy tanning to half title page).