Author: CALMEYER, M.R.H. (EDITOR),
Title: Het optreden van Wielrijders als omtrekkende Groep.[Edited and compiled after:Grepen uit het optreden van Militaire Wielrijders in den Wereldoorlog 1914-1918. (Covertitle). INCORPORATES: Auf dem Rad gegen der Feind. Kriegserlebnisse. Excracted from, and translated into dutch
Description: ater the original publication in german. BOUND WITH J.P. SCHOENMAKER, Sètan Brewoq (Gebaarde Duivel). [Een schets uit het Indisch Krijgsmanssleven, (Covertitle). [Eerste druk; First edition]. 's-Hertogenbosch, Drukkerij H. Smits, [circa 1920]. 8°. Original printed limp wrappers, stapled. 49pp. 17 monochrome tactical plans of which with concise legenda, various sizes, some folded, loose in front aqnd endpockets, referred to in text. NOT called-for in Royal Dutch Library KB. Two (of three) dutch language contributions of which one translated from the original german by a german cycle officer serving in the First World War commented upon by Calmeyer, all about the advantages and tactics of military cyclist batallions at war. The third part, pp. 38-49, is a short story and tribute by Army Captain J.P. Schoenmaker about a detatchment Royal Dutch East Indies' Army K.N.I.L., posted at Sigli (Aceh); previously published in a dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche Courant, 1896. Very fine copy. Rare.

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