Insignia of the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles Specialist Publication By the Gurkha Museum - Now out of Print
Revised December 1997. Spiral bound A4, card covers. 66 single sided pages. A good 2nd hand copy with minor wear and no annotations. (The last version of this publication was produced in May 2000, this is the version which immediately preceded it). Forward by Sir John Chapple. Illustrations are in black and white. Essential reference which one just cannot find on the internet. Edge bump ... read more
Booklet issued to new recruits at the depot - Summary of History and Traditions of the Fifth / Royal Northumberland Fusiliers by Major Pratt 1948 - 1950
Small pocket sized, card covers with colour illustration to front depicting an officer of the regiment in 1674. 16pp, in good condition with no damage or pen marks other than a small red mark to the front cover. read more
Scarce WW1 The North Eastern Railway ( NER ) Monthly Magazine - January 1915
This original magazine has paper covers (now detached regrettably but would look good separately framed) but otherwise contents in good clean and tight condition. It contains information relating to the North Eastern Railways and its members during the Great War.
There is a photographic Roll of Honour for early 1915 an several pages of lists of employees who had enlisted in all ... read more
25.00 GBP
WW1 Aircraft of World War One Booklet
62pp, includes aeroplanes and airships. Interesting little book by Jon Lloyd AFC, published by Ian Allen Ltd.
Paper covers. Black and white illustrations. In good condition. Coll. read more
3.00 GBP
Osprey Publication - The Arab Legion
In good second hand condition with no damage, pen marks or tears. Some yellowing to cover with age. Attractively illustrated as ever with the Osprey publications, this book of 40 pages. It includes some details of regimental badges.
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8.00 GBP
WW2 Royal Navy Submarine Losses including Submariners Book of Rememberance
A specialist publication, A4 sized with card covers and 48pp. Details included on names and nature of all submarines lost and the names of their crews. Published by John Atkinson in 2004. In very good second hand condition, no marks tears or damage.
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10.00 GBP
Headress Badges of the British Army Volume 1 Kipling & King
Second revised Edition, 1978. Muller publishers, no dust cover. A good clean copy, only damage of note is the book has split from ends boards at the very back (see photo), a slight bump to bottom edge of back cover and original owner's name and shop sticker to front). I consider the photos in the 1970 copies are much better than found in subsequent reprints. A good working copy for the seri... read more
Sergeant Pearmans Memoirs - Edited by the Marquess of Anglesey
Hard Cover. 1st UK Edition. 159 pages. Being his account of service with the Third (King's Own) Light Dragoons in India, From 1845 to 1853, including the first and second Sikh wars. Fully illustrated with b/w plates. Pages clean, v/g condition. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Embossed regimental badge on upper cover. Red dust jacket illustrated with b/w portrai... read more
10.00 GBP
Comrades In Captivity; a (WW1) record of life in seven German prison camps - Famous English Poet and Officer in the 5th Glosters
A rare hardcover first edition first published in 1920 by London, Sidgwick and Jackson. Octavo, 319 pages with 8 illustrations (by C.E.B. Bernard), several sketches, a map and a plan. Light grey cloth lightly rubbed and creased, two pages with some foxing marks (see photo of the illustration of Milkwaukee Bill"), otherwise a very good copy.
Frederick William Harvey (1888-1957), E... read more
85.00 GBP
Haynes Manual - Great War RFC / RAF Sopwith Camel Bi-Plane Aeroplane 1916 - 1920 (F1 / 2F.1) - Brand New Book
RRP £25.00, brand new. Superb book. Written by Jarrod Cotter, who has written a number of volumes on historic aircraft for Haynes. Hardback with156pp of well illustrated text. Slight shelf wear to covers. New.
A sumptuously illustrated book with great colour photographs of surviving aircraft and the restoration and construction down to the last bolt, plus good black and white ... read more
10.00 GBP