brigade guards (10 Ergebnisse)

PF. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Original card covers 123pp full list of the fallen by Guards Regiment. A Vg copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 3rd Edition. 16mo. Light wear to extrems. Chip to top of spine. Tear to lower front joint. Owners name to front pastedown. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. vi, [ii], 161pp. Pages clean, though with many updates to the orders, in the form of deletions in red ink and duplicated typed slips pasted in. Some tanning to endpapers, and brisk pencilled ownership name. In the original binding of red cloth laid over navy cloth, with gilt insignia and title: bright and firm, spine with slight sunning and a smal scuff. Very nice copy.

Sm. 8vo., with full-page plan in the text and folding map in red and black; original boards, upper board lettered and blocked with brigade emblem, gilt back, boards very lightly sunned else a bright, clean copy. The last major issue before the outbreak of WWII. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.

Issued by the authority of Major-General L.J. Oliphant - Commanding the Brigade of Guards. For Private Circulation. xii, 34 pp. Contents: Colours and Distinctions, Command and Rank, Honours and Salutes, Interior Economy, Duties, Dress, Appendix - The Esher Award. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. A little light foxing on prelims. Text clean. Blue and red cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Boards patchily damp-stained. Top and bottom of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG-.

Zustand: Good. - Letter penned in black ink and filling both sides of a cream-colored 7 inch high by 5 inch wide sheet of letterhead with his address printed in red raised lettering at the top of the recto. Signed "Fred.[?] Hamilton". The left edge of the letter is reinforced with linen tape. Hamilton's name & the title of his book have been noted in another hand below his signature. Folded once for mailing. Together with a newspaper cutting of his obituary. Good. General Hamilton writes to Mrs. Ford: "I leave a copy of the morning's (which you can return at your convenience) containing a review of my book. I hope you have recovered from the heat of yesterday". The book, published in London by John Murray in 1874, is "The Origin and History of the First or Grenadier Guards. From Documents in the State Paper Office, War Office, Horse Guards, Contemporary History, Regimental Records, Etc.".General Sir Frederick William Hamilton [1815-1890] was a British Army officer who was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1831. He commanded his regiment throughout the Eastern campaign of the Crimean War, including the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Balaklava, the Siege of Sebastopol, and the Battle of Inkerman where he was wounded and had his horse shot out from under him. He then served as Major General commanding the Brigade of Guards from 1868 to 1870, before retiring with the rank of full general in July 1881.

Paperback / softback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Zustand: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.