Smith Dorrien General (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrations and maps complete. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Frontispiece. The boards are a little marked. There is foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last few pages, little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

1st US edition. v, [3], 110, [2] pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4" NF/NF. Uncommon in dust jacket. Purple cloth backed drab paper boards. Buff printed dust jacket, with the rear panel & flap listing other publications on the war.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ No dust jacket as issued. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. The binding has been repaired in amateur fashion, with black material across the spine, and the original spine cloth laid down on top of this. Spine cloth lifting at upper end of rear joint. Moderate foxing.; This copy has two newspaper review clippings from 1925 pasted to the front endpaper and the half-title page. There are also several other clippings from 1935 pasted to the endpapers. Tipped in to the front free endpaper is a handwritten letter from H. Williams-White to Colonel [Maclarty?]. The letter is on paper with the letterhead "Holyrood House, Bognor" and is dated 15 March 1918. The letter reads "My son has returned the books which I am leaving this morning at your house. He begs me to thank you in the loan of them, and to say he has found them very useful as far as he has been able to read them." xii, 522, [2 (advertisements)] pages + frontispiece + 9 illustratrions on 7 plate leaves + 27 maps (20 in-text, 3 folding, 5 with some colour). Grey cloth boards. Amateur rebinding with original spine cloth laid down. Gilt lettering on spine. Small gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 149mm. Contents: The Zulu War; Egypt, 1882; India-Nile and Suakin Expeditions, 1884-1887; India; Tirah Campaign, 1897-1898; Egypt: Omdurman, 1898; Fashoda; Malta; South African War: Paardeberg; Bloemfontein, March 1900; Sannah's Post, 31st March 1900; Thabanchu, Thoba; Zand River, May 1900; Doornkop, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria; Lines of Communication, Onrust and Olifants Nek; Pursuing De Wet; Buller and Komati Poort; Belfast; A Sweep to the Swaziland Border; Pietretief; India, 1901-1907; Aldershot, 1907-1911; India and Salisbury, 1911-1914; The Retreat from Mons; Le Cateau; The Marne, 1914; The Aisne; Flank Move to Bethune; Indian Troops: Neuve Chappelle; Messines: The Second Army; Return to England; Expedition to East Africa; Gibraltar; Index. "General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien, GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC (26 May 1858 â" 12 August 1930) was a British Army General. One of the few British survivors of the Battle of Isandlwana as a young officer, he also distinguished himself in the Second Boer War. Smith-Dorrien held senior commands in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the First World War. He commanded II Corps at the Battle of Mons, the first major action fought by the BEF, and the Battle of Le Cateau [. . .]" - Wikipedia entry on Horace Smith-Dorrien, accessed November 2024.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Two foolscap documents in self-wraps, 8; 25pp. Very good with some foxing and small institutional stamps to fronts. These reports were submitted to the Secretary of the War Office, at that time David Lloyd George, on 3 Aug and 17 Nov 1916, by a Committee chaired by Justice Clement Bailhache. The Committee was appointed to look into Government air policies in the wake of serious losses being sustained by the RFC during WW1. In particular, serious criticisms made by Pemberton Billing of "criminal negligence" and "official folly of those in high places" with claims against the Royal Aircraft Factory and RFC. Gathering information over several weeks looking at a series of specific cases, the Committee laid the blame with the military supply system rather than with air chiefs, calling for a joint Equipment Department, and closer cooperation with the Royal Naval Air Service.…

Original stiff grey boards, grey cloth backstrap spines paper title labels to spine and front boards 8vo Biographical details of all the 631 fallen of the great war connected with this English Public School with portrait illustrations. Overall a Vg condition Set Volume 6 has some minor wear tot head and foot of spine Uncommon full set of this outstanding School Roll.…