GREAT WAR MOBILIZATION -

De Brigade Grenadiers en Jagers, de Staf der Eerste Divisie en de eerste Mitrailleurafdeeling tijdens de Mobilisatie. Orig. edn.

Rotterdam, Nijgh & van Ditmar, s.d. [..], 1914. Small oblong 8°. Original limp wrappers, stapled and with a cord through spine. Title printed on front wrapper, within an eleborate decorative border, repeated on ti.-p. Introduction in dutch on 1 unnumbered leave, verso blank. Album with tog. 16 original phototype plates, each 17x10.5cm,by Emrik & Binger, Haarlem, tipped-in on 16 unnumbered limp paper lvs., with captions in dutch at tails (versos blank). SCAN AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. On the first of August, 1914 the dutch army was mobilized upon the threat of the outbreak of the First World War, or Great War, in which Holland managed to stay neutral. This alhbum, preceded by a preface describing the actual order to mobilize, shows in 16 tipped-in phototype plates Men and Staff of the first Brigade dutch Grenadiers and Rriflemen, Staff-officers and the first dutch Machinegun section ever formed in their Barracks, in the Field and on manoeuvres. Supplies good information on the dutch army of the time (:) uniforms, arms, tents, barracks, &c. Good copy. (some light and very occasional spotting in margins, not affecting the illustrations).

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Keywords: great war first world war mobilization dutch army grenadiers riflemen officers staff machinegun division batallion militaria dutch