Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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. Alexander, Institute of Royal Engineers, 2003, 336pp., extracts from various accounts, memoirs and histories of Bengal Sappers’ campaign and war service over 200 years, with photographs and index, hardback, with dust jacket, almost new condition

History of the 20th Field Company, Royal Sappers and Miners in the Great War, by Major H. W. R. Hamilton, D.S.O., M.C., Reprinted from the Royal Engineers Journal, undated, 51pp., giving details on a Company which served in France, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, card covers, good condition (4) £30-£40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Books from the Library of Peter Duckers.

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