Author: ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG Sir John
Title: The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918. Volume I [with] Volume II [with] Maps Volume. 'Nulli Secundus'. BRIGHT, CRISP, CLEAN SET
Description: Oxford University Press,, 1928. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 27 maps (a number folding) in separate volume; navy cloth, upper boards framed and blocked in gilt enclosing regimental badge in gilt and colours, gilt backs, uncut, upper joint of map volume split (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy. The standard history of the regiment in the Great War. The Coldstreams fielded three battalions , all of which went to France and remained there throughout the war. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe, p.6; White p.43.

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