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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 1887. First edition. viii, 309pp., black and white frontispiece portrait, colour plate showing Regimental Colours, and 11 black and white plates. All edges gilt. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders or 79th (The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders) Regiment of Foot was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1793. It amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders (the Duke of Albany's) to form the Queen's Own Highlanders in 1961. This is a history of the Regiment from its formation up to 1887, taken from the Orderly Room Records. It includes accounts of the Raising of the Regiment, Egyptian Campaign, Waterloo, Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, Nile Expedition, and the Soudan Campaign. There are also alphabetical lists of Services of the Officers, Services of the Warrant Officers, and an appendix containing a Roll of officers, non-commissioned officers, and men who were killed in action or died of wounds or disease in Egypt and the Soudan, 1882-87. The book is bound in the original green padded leather boards with gold titling and emblems on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some wear to the titling and emblems on the spine and front board and rubbing to the leather at the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with traces of a removed diamond-shaped label on the front fixed endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. viii, 309 p. 23 cm. 13 illustrations, including two in colour showing regimental colours. Green cloth hardcover with attractive gold print and gold text block edges. Corners bumped. Spine ends slightly worn. Hinges repaired internally. Ink inscription on front pastedown states "Moray Brown, Ensign 79th Highlanders Retired as Lieutenant 1884". James Moray Brown served in India with the 79th Cameron Highlanders and wrote several books on sporting topics during the late 1880s and 1890s eg. "I Was A Tiger Hunter." He has a brief bio in the alphabetical officers' listings section p. 211. News clippings pasted to front pages describe the Highlanders in Egypt and the regiment's centenary celebration.