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History of 8th King George V’s Own Light Cavalry, by H. G. Rawlinson, C.I.E., Gale and Polden, 1948, 142pp., a history of the 26th Light Cavalry and 30th Lancers from 1787, and 8th Light Cavalry from 1922, with index an list of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £130
The Prince of Wales’s Own Scinde Horse 1839-1922, by Colonel E. B. Maunsell, published by the Regiment, 1926, 346pp., with index and list of honours and awards &c., hardback, a good quality photocopied version, nicely bound and presented The 28th Light Cavalry in Persia and Russian Turkestan 1915-20, by Major J. A. C. Kreyer, D.S.O., and Captain G. Uloth, privately published, 1926, 204pp., with photographs, roll of honour, list of honours and awards &c., hardback, a good quality...
Hammer Price: £85
The Calcutta Light Horse 1759-1947, author not stated, Gale & Polden 1957, 175pp., with photographs, nominal rolls, and lists of various Regimental competitions and trophies, hardback, cover slightly scuffed but otherwise good condition The Bombay Light Horse and its Successor the Bombay Motor Patrol A.F.I., author not stated, Cranford Press 1966, 47pp., with photographs and nominal rolls for 1914-18 and 1939-45, hardback, good condition and a limited edition of 150 copies (2) £20-£30
Hammer Price: £55
King George’s Own Central India Horse, author not stated, I.M.H. Press, Delhi, 1922, 149pp., a history of the Regiment covering the period 1857-1920 in Hindi (in Roman text) and therefore presumably intended for the Indian ranks of the regiment, hardback, good condition, rare £10-£15
Hammer Price: £70
King George’s Own Central India Horse, the Story of a Local Corps, by Major-General W. Watson, Blackwood, 1930, 475pp., a detailed history of the regiment from the 1850s to 1918, with index, service records, list of honours and award &c., hardback, some damage to spine but otherwise good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £95
The Central India Horse Newsletters 1940-46, comprising 24 newsletters covering Second World War service, Presentation copy from the Commanding Officer Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Peters to General R. A. Savory, with typed copy of Savory’s letter of thanks pasted inside the front cover, Thacker, Bombay, 1946, 230pp., the effective Regimental history 1939-46, very detailed with lists of honours and awards, citations &c., hardback, good condition, rare £30-£40
Hammer Price: £240
The Bengal Horse Artillery 1800-1861, by Major-General B. P. Hughes, Arms and Armour Press, 1971, 184pp., the classic account of the Bengal Artillery, with photographs and index, hardback, with dust-jacket, the dust-jacket slightly torn, otherwise good condition and a limited edition of 1,000 copies £20-£30
Hammer Price: £45
The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery 1850-1947, by Brigadier-General C. A. L. Graham, Gale & Polden, 1957, 470pp., the standard history of the corps and very detailed, with pull-out maps and index, hardback, light foxing, otherwise good condition Tales of the Mountain Gunner, by C. H. T. MacFetridge and L. P. Warren, Blackwood, 1973, 327pp., an anthology of accounts of life and service in the Indian mountain batteries by different writers covering the late 19th and early 20th...
Hammer Price: £20
History of the Corps of Indian Engineers, 1939-47, by Major S. Verma and Major V. K. Anand, Historical Section Ministry of Defence, India, 1974, 490pp., part of the Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War, an exceptionally detailed survey, with pull-out maps and index, hardback, in wrapper, good condition £20-£30
Hammer Price: £50
The Military Engineer in India, by Colonel E. W. C. Sandes, D.S.O., M.C., Institute of Royal Engineers, Chatham, 1933, Two volumes, 590pp. and 392pp., a superbly detailed work on the various units of Indian Engineers (Sappers and Miners &c.) from 1660-1935, with excellent detail on the Victorian campaigns and the Great War, with pull-out maps, photographs, and index, hardback, slight scuffing to covers, generally good condition Bengal Sappers 1803-2003, edited by G. Cooper and D....
The Royal Bengal Engineers, by Colonel Sir Edward T. Thackeray, V.C., K.C.B., Smith Elder, London 1900, 275pp., a detailed history, with index, hardback, minor scuffing to covers, therefore fair condition List of Officers of the Bombay Artillery, compiled by Colonel E. Spring, Clowes, London, 1902, 135pp., with detailed war services, promotions, appointments, &c. of the officers of the Bombay Artillery from 1749 to 1860, with index, hardback, good condition and a useful publication (2) ...
Hammer Price: £65
The Frontier Force Regiment, compiled by Brigadier W. E. H. Condon, Gale and Polden, 1962, 580pp., the definitive collected account of the regiments comprising the Frontier Force Regiment, with pull-out maps, photographs, list of honours and awards &c., hardback, some slight damage to spine but otherwise good condition £40-£50
Hammer Price: £120
The Frontier Force Rifles, compiled by Brigadier W. E. H. Condon, Gale and Polden 1953, 460pp., the definitive collected history of the regiments comprising the Frontier Force Rifles, with pull-out map, various photographs, lists of honours and awards &c., hardback, very good condition £40-£50
Hammer Price: £190
History of the First Punjab Regiment, 1759-1956, by Major M. I. Qureshi, Gale and Polden, 1958, 485pp., a detailed study of various regiments which came together as 1st Punjabis, with pull-out maps, various photographs, and index, hardback, good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £80
History of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment, formerly 76th Punjabis &c., 1775-1920, by Regimental Compilers, Gale and Polden, 1926, 56pp., with list of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition £20-£30
Hammer Price: £110
The Golden Galley: The Story of the 2nd Punjab Regiment 1761-1947, by Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Betham, K.B.E., C.I.E., M.C., and Major H. V. R. Geary, M.C., Oxford University Press, 1956, 330pp., an excellent survey of services of the 67, 69, 72, 74, 87 Punjabis, with photographs and pull-out maps, hardback, with dust-jacket, the dust-jacket slightly frayed, good condition £20-£30
Hammer Price: £35
History of the 2nd Punjab Infantry, 1848-1888, Thacker, Calcutta, 1889, published by the regiment, 73pp., hardback, in modern binding, some worming to pages otherwise fair condition, rare £40-£50
History of the VI Punjab Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force, 1843-85, Civil and Military Press, Lahore, 1886, 30pp., a very rare booklet with outline history of the regiment in its first years, card covers, good condition £40-£50
Hammer Price: £360
Regimental History of the 1st Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment, compiled by N. M. Geoghegan & M. H. A. Campbell, Gale and Polden, 1928, 82pp., with pull-out maps, roll of honour, lists of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £140
History of the 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment (Sherdil-ki-Paltan), late 19th Punjabis, compiled by G. Pigot for the Regiment, 1946, 243pp., a detailed study of the regiment from 1850 to 1945 with a superb selection of hand-drawn pull-out maps, hardback, covers faded but otherwise good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £340
War Records of the 24th Punjabis (4th Battalion, 14th Punjab Regiment) 1914-20, by Colonel A. B. Haig, Gale and Polden, 1933, 84pp., with pull-out maps, hardback, good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £280
History of the 5th Battalion (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment, formerly 40th Pathans (”The Forty Thieves”), by Major R. S. Waters, O.B.E., James Bain, London, 1936, 400pp., a superb and very detailed history of the “40 Thieves”, with pull-out maps, photographs, index, and excellent and many detailed and useful appendices, hardback, slight damage to cover otherwise good condition £40-£50
A History of the 1st Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment, 1857-1937, by Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Shearer, Gale and Polden, 1937, 100pp., with photographs, lists of honours and awards, lists of officers who served (with services) &c., hardback, very good condition £30-£40
Solah Punjab: The History of the 16th Punjab Regiment, by Lieutenant-Colonel. J. P. Lawford, M.C., and Major W. E. Catto, Gale and Polden, 1967, 302pp., a good general account of the five regiments which combined to form the 16th Punjab Regiment, with photographs and list of honours and awards &c., hardback, with dust-jacket, very good condition £20-£30
Hammer Price: £25
Historical Records of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Infantry, Brownlow’s Punjabis, a presentation copy from Lieutenant-Colonel L. C. Dunsterville and the Officers of the Regiment, Jhelum 1910, author not stated, Swiss & Co., Devonport, 1908, 146pp., a rare history with very good detail, with photographic plates, services of officers &c., hardback, spine very scuffed and rubbed, therefore fair condition and rare £30-£40
Hammer Price: £160
Records of the 1st/21st Punjabis, by Major P. Murray and others, Gale and Polden, 1919, 107pp., a good, detailed account of the 21st Punjabis on campaign, 1857-1919, with pull-out maps, good condition £20-£30
Regimental History of Van Corlandt’s Levy, later known as the 23rd Punjabis, 31st Punjabis and 2/16th Punjab Regiment, by A. G. Kemball, Thacker, Bombay, 1922, 40pp., published with original (named) photographs, all of which are individually pasted in, hardback, some loose pages internally but otherwise good condition and although slim a useful work, rare £40-£50
Hammer Price: £260
History of the 26th Punjabis 1857-1923, compiled from the digest of services and other office records, Gale and Polden, 1924, 145pp., a detailed regimental history with pull-out maps, named group photographs, nominal roll of officers, list of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £420
The Punjab Frontier Force: A brief account of the late Punjab Frontier Force from 1849-1903, by B. N. Dey, Newman, Calcutta, 1905, 85pp., with index and list of Commanders, hardback, slight scuffing to spine, otherwise good condition and scarce £20-£30
History of the 1st Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley’s), by Colonel F. H. James, Gale and Polden, 1938, 276pp., a superb history full of detail, with pull-out maps and various with useful appendices on officers, &c., hardback, good condition £30-£40
Napier’s Rifles: History of the 5th Battalion, 6th Rajputana Rifles, by H. G. Rawlinson, Oxford University Press, 1929, 200pp., an excellent and detailed account, with pull-out maps, index, list of honours and awards &c., hardback, with dust-jacket, the dust-jacket somewhat torn, some light foxing, therefore fair condition History of the 2/6th Rajputana Rifles (Prince of Wales’s Own), by H. G. Rawlinson, Oxford University Press, 1936, 195pp., and excellent and detailed account, with...
History of the 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1849-1926, by Colonel H. C. Wylly, Gale and Polden, 1929, 135pp., an excellent and detailed history, with officer lists, various group photographs &c., hardback, slight scuffing to cover, otherwise good condition £30-£40
History of the 6th Royal Battalion (Scinde), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1843-1934, author unknown, Gale and Polden, 1935, 116pp., a very detailed history with list of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition £20-£30
History of the 6th Royal Battalion, (Scinde), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1934-1947, author unknown, Gale and Polden, 1948, 116pp., a very detailed study of this distinguished regiment and its campaigning especially on the North West Frontier 1936-39 and throughout the Second World War, with pull-out maps, list of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition £40-£50
Historical Record of the 39th Royal Garwhal Rifles: Vol. 1 – 1887-1922, “For private circulation only”, a presentation copy from the Officers of the regiment, compiled by Brigadier J. Evatt, Gale and Polden, 1922, 220pp., a very detailed account, with various photographs, roll of honour, lists of honours and awards, Regimental music &c., hardback, covers slightly frayed, good condition £40-£50
History of the 55th Coke’s Rifles, Frontier Force, by Captain J. P. Villiers-Stewart, Gale and Polden, 1908, 120pp., an excellent and detailed account of the regiment up to 1903, with pull-out maps and list of services of native officers of the regiment, some scuffing to outer spine and corners, therefore fair condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £220
History of Coke’s Rifles, by H. C. Wylly, Gale and Polden, 1930, 165pp., with photographs and index, wear and scuffing to outer spine and corners but otherwise in very good condition £30-£40
Jammu and Kashmir Arms, History of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles, by Major-General D. K. Palit, Palit and Dutt, Dehra Dun, 1972, 305pp., with photographs and index, hardback, with dust-jacket, good condition History of the Jammu and Kashmire Rifles, 1820-1956, by Major K. B. Singh, Lancer, New Delhi, 1990, 320pp., with index, list of honours and awards &c., hardback, good condition The Indian State Forces: Their Lineage and Insignia, by Maharaja of Jaipur, Leo Cooper, 1967, 122pp., a...
The History of the Bombay Army, by Sir Patrick Cadell, C.S.I., C.I.E., Longmans, 1938, 362pp., a general history of the entire Bombay army and its campaigns, 1662-1920, with pull-out map and index, good condition £20-£30
The History of the Bombay Pioneers, 1777-1933, by Lieutenant-Colonel W. B. P. Tugwell, Sidney Press, London, 1938, 439pp., the standard history of the Corps of Bombay Pioneers until its dissolution, with pull-out maps, photographs, and index, hardback, scuffing to spine but otherwise good condition £30-£40
Hammer Price: £60
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