[English History Collection] – [The 23rd London Regiment] [Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby (Foreword)] The Times Publishing Company.

The 23rd London Regiment 1798-1919. Compiled from contributions by former officers of the regiment with a foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby.

London, The Times Publishing Company Limited, 1936. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece (Volunteers in the Uniforms of 1798), XVI, 188 pages. Several black and white maps throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Good condition with obvious signs of external wear. Some puncture marks on the cover carrying through to subsequent pages. Discoloration of pages, a dog ear on page 139 and some foxing to endpapers. Previous owner’s names in inkpen on endpaper dated 1936. Regiment’s insignia in gold on cover.

Includes for example the following chapters: Early Days in France / Battle at Loos / Vimy and the Somme / The Ypres Salient / The Great German Offensive / France and Solonika / Palestine / Beersheba and Sheria / Marching on Jerusalem / Approaching Jericho / The First Amman Raid / Flanders etc.

This publication includes a history of the regiment, it’s military engagements up to and including the First World War, accounts of those battles and a regrettably long list of names of those that died serving the regiment during the Great War.

Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was an English soldier and British Imperial Governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: British Military History · English History – Rare · English History Collection · Great War · Library & Collection Building · London · London – Section of English History Collection · London Regiments · Military History – Rare · World War I · World War One · World War, 1914-1918
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60258AB