On Active Service with the Chinese Regiment. A Record of the Operations of the First Chinese Regiment in North China from March to October 1900.

Barnes, A. A. S.

Published by London: Grant Richards, 1902

About this Item

First edition. Small 8vo. pp. xv, 228; frontis. and 10 photo. illusts., three plans inc. one double-page; some foxing, occasionally very heavy, partly due to two loosely inserted newspapers cuttings, bookseller inkstamp to half title, good in original cloth, browned on spine. The Chinese Regiment was raised in 1898 as an auxiliary force in British Weihaiwei. It comprised British officers and enlisted Chinese, and saw action in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The author, Arthur Alison Stuart Barnes (1869-1937), led the 2nd Company of the Regiment, and himself took part in the fighting in Tientsin and Peking. An appendix lists the Chinese Regiment's casualties, all but two of whom were Chinese recruits.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On Active Service with the Chinese Regiment. A Record of the Operations of the First Chinese Regiment in North China from March to October 1900.
• Publisher: London: Grant Richards
• Publication Date: 1902
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asia
  • China
  • Military