Author: Stirling, John.
Title: OUR REGIMENTS ON SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902. Their Record, Based on the Despatches.
Description: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. 1st Ed. xiv + 532pp. Edges foxed, edges very lightly browned, original gilt lettered blue cloth, lower board sl. creased, spine bumped. ¶ Mendelssohn Volume 2 pp.439. ‘The volume is something like an ‘enlarged directory’ showing where any ‘particular regiment or battery added to, or mayhap lost, some of its reputation,’ and it endeavours to enumerate the ‘number of mentions each regiment or battery got in the chief despatches written during the war. Where casualities are mentioned, it is more to bring out the severity of the fighting in a particular engagement than to compile statistics.’

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