Description
Author: Wilkins, Philip A.
Publisher: Archibald Constable
Place: London
Cover: orig. cloth
Condition: Very Good
Category: Uniform & Decorations
Year: 1904
Edition: 1st edition
Size: small folio
Description: xxiii + 443pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., index, Loosely inserted 10pp. War Office Gazette Alphabetical list of recipients of the Victoria Cross during the Campaign…1914 to 1918. Nice inscription To Colonel Sir Edward Ward, from Mary E. Wilkins, In grateful remembrance of Ladysmith. With his armorial bookplate on front paste-down. After the Siege of Ladysmith, Sir George White called Ward ‘the greatest supply officer since Moses. Some wear to boards & hinges professionally strengthened o/w nice tight, square copy. Very scarce
