The Scots Guards (8 results)

CD in Standard Case. Condition: Very Good. Very clean audio CD. Lightly scratched standard case with the residue to two small labels to front.

Condition: Good.

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged. One can hear the clipped tones of the military man: 'Dear Capt. Barron, | Gen. Gosling spoke & wrote to me about you. | What is your present state, duty, light duty, leave, or what? | Please let me know & tell me when you get orders to join a reserve unit, & which. | Yours very truly | H. C. Lowther | Brig. Genl.' Lowther's entry in Who Was Who reads: 'Entered Scots Guards, 1888; Capt. 1899; Major, 1904; Lieut-Col 1913; Bt-Col 1915; served South Africa, 18991902 (despatches twice, Queen's medal 6 clasps, King's medal 2 clasps, DSO); European War, 191418 (despatches thrice, wounded, Bt-Col, CB); served as Brigade-Major, 1st Division, and in Gen. Staff, War Office; accompanied Diplomatic Mission to Fez, 1905; Military Attaché, Paris, Madrid, and Lisbon, 190509; Secretary to HRH the Governor-General of Canada, 191113; MP (U.) Northern Division of Westmorland, 191518; Penrith and Cockermouth Division of Cumberland, 192122; commanding 1st Scots Guards and then 1st Guards Brigade, Expeditionary Force, 1914; Military Secretary to Commander-in-Chief, 1915; Brig.-Gen. Gen. Staff Home Forces, 1916; Maj.-Gen. Gen. Staff, 191618; holds Swedish Order of the Svaerd, Commander Legion of Honour, and Spanish Order of Military Merit '.

First Edition. Foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel M. S. Jameson. Preface by Lieutenant-General Sir Norman Arthur. Pp. 160, frontispiece, 8 coloured plates, text illustrations, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; blue papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1988. First edition. Sutcliffe 2/p. 21.

Audio-CD. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Dudelsäcke, Trommeln und militärische Marschmusik mit insgesamt 75 Minuten Spielzeit. Teils mit der üblichen Instrumentierung einer Marschkappelle (sprich: mit Pauken, Trompeten und Trommeln), aber natürlich kommt auch das wohl bekannteste Musikinstrument Schottlands - der Dudelsack - ausgiebig zum Einsatz! Auf den ersten 13 Titeln dieser CD spielen THE SCOTS GUARDS, die eines von den fünf Leibregimente der Königin sind. Die darauf folgenden 13 Titel, der insgesamt 26 Titel starken CD, stammen vom 3. Bataillon des Royal Regiment of Scotland, der sogenannten BLACK WATCH. Die Aufnahme wurde bei der weltbekannten Militärparade TROOPING THE COLOUR aufgenommen.

First Edition. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Kent. Pp. xx+284, coloured frontispiece, 28 plates (coloured and black & white), 14 text plus endpaper maps, appendices (including roll of Honour, Honours and awards, nominal roll), index; cr. 4to; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt, gilt & silver insignia to upper board; dust wrapper, lightly foxed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, leaves lightly browned; Leo Cooper, London, 1995. First edition. Sutcliffe 1/p. 10.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Signed by Prince Albert, the future King George VI, this is the limited edition of The History of the Scots Guards by Major-General Frederick Maurice. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Octavo, [two volumes], xxii, [2], 410pp; xi, [3], 394pp. Purple cloth, title in gilt on spines. Top edge gilt, silver emblem stamped to front covers. Solid text blocks, sunning to spines, light wear to tips, shelf wear, faint wear to gutters, a very good set. Lacking dust jackets. Complete with 15 full page illustrations in Volume I, 25 in Volume II, some in color. Complete with 28 maps and plans in Volume I, 16 in Volume II, including large fold-out maps at rear of each volume. Stated copy 21 of 60. (Sutcliffe, 10) Signed on the foreword by Prince Albert as Colonel of the Regiment. Upon the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936, Prince Albert would ascend to the British throne as King George VI. Signed.

In two volumes. Volume I: Pp. xxiv+410; Volume II: Pp. xiv+394, 40 plates (8 coloured, 1 folding, 1 double page of Company Badges), 44 maps and plans, (7 folding, one with small paper repair to fold on verso), erratum slip, appendices, nominal roll, indices; roy. 8vo; blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, silver & gilt insignia to upper boards, spines lightly darkened, boards lightly worn; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, endpapers slightly browned, a little light foxing; Chatto & Windus, London, 1934. First trade edition. White p. 44; Sutcliffe 1/p. 10. *Also issued in a limited edition of 60 copies, each signed by King George V as Colonel in Chief, with 4 extra plates coloured by hand by C. C. P. Lawson.