Author: VIDLER Leopold Amon
Title: The Story of the Rye Volunteers. [First and Sole Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Description: [Privately Printed], Rye,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original wrappers printed in violet and black, wire-stitched as issued, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, bright, clean copy. Coverage includes the Rye Volunteer Movement 1794 to 1803, Volunteer Movement of 1859 (resulting in the formation of the Cinque Ports Rifles, ), Rye Marine Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery 1861, "E" Coy. 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers (Brookfield Greys), Sussex Imperial Yeomanry, Veteran Reserve (renamed National Reserve) and Rye LDV (later Home Guard) 1940 to 1945. SCARCE. Sutcliffe, p.220; White, p.216.

Keywords: military, british army, militia, auxiliary forces, volunteers, rye, sussex, ldv, home guard, unit history, unit histories, leopold vidler,


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