Author: WARD C.H.D.
Title: History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division (T.F.) 1914-1918.
Description: Western Mail, Cardiff,, 1927. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, divisional sign on title, 29 plates on 17, 5 maps in the text and 4 large folding maps on japon, neat signature (member of the Middlesex Regiment) on front free endpaper, some mild spotting (mainly marginal and fore-edges); original divisional pebble-grained cloth, divisional insignia blocked in gilt and blind on upper board, gilt back, patterned endpapers, backstrip frayed at head and tail, covers unevenly sunned (rather more so at backstrip) else a very good, firm copy. Includes OOB, embarkation, postings of battalions, corps and divisional orders, the five battalions in France and roll of officers commanding. The division served at Gallipoli and under Allenby in Egypt, Palestine and Sinai. Five battalions served in France. SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION. Enser, p.61.

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