queens own cameron highlanders (4 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid original antique coloured print . Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . Very good condition . Shows soldiers of the79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders .

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Published at the close of the Second Boer War, Heroes and Gentlemen (1902) records the front-line impressions of the Rev. Robert M'Clelland, Presbyterian chaplain to the Highland Brigade and the 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Writing from encampments and field hospitals across South Africa, M'Clelland blends vivid anecdote with pastoral reflection, portraying ordinary soldiers"heroes" for their endurance and "gentlemen" for their comradeshipagainst the backdrop of guerrilla skirmishes, typhoid wards, and long columns on the veld. Part travel diary, part morale tract, the book offers a rare Scottish chaplain's view of imperial warfare just as the conflict ended, making it a valuable contemporaneous account for Boer-War and Highland-regiment collectors alike. Heroes and Gentlemen; An Army Chaplain's Experiences in South Africa, by the Rev. Robert M'Clelland, Ho. Chaplain, Div. Batt. Highland Brigade and 1st Batt. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Published by J. and R. Parlane, Paisley; John Menzies and Co., Edinburgh and Glasgow; Houlston and Sons, London, 1902. No stated edition - definitely printed in the first year of publication (1902 date to Introduction). An uncommon publication - no institutional holdings located on Worldcat. A good limp red leather volume, with leather bound over stiff card. With gilt titles to front cover and ruled lined decoration to spine. Covers a little bumped annd frayed to extremities. Gilt dentelles to pastedowns. Text is bright and clean throughout, with just a couple of very light age spots. With portrait frontispiece and map near the rear. Title spread showing stitching at gutter due to type of binding, but all soundly bound. Gilt edges to text block. Language: English. 159pp. Dimensions: approximately 184mm high x 126mm wide x 11mm deep. Unpacked weight approximately 236g.

First Edition. Booklet priced at one penny with Badges, battle Honours and a short history from its formation to the end of the Boer War. Edges browned and staples a little rusty otherwise a Good+ copy of this scarce booklet.

Printed on both sides of a 15 x 11 cm piece of card. In good condition, lightly-aged. Unsigned autograph note by Scovell on reverse: 'Drawn up by me when adjt. 1910.' Divided into four sections: 'Without Arms' (with brief notes on: Turns; Marching; Marking Time; Stepping backward, forward and side step; Double Marching; Marching Past; Slow March; Diagonal March; Dressing; Saluting; Reporting; Changing Direction; Forming), 'With Canes', 'With Rifle' (Saluting; Funeral Exercises; Feue de joie; Piling Arms; Changing Arms; Short Traill [sic]; Grounding of Arms; Presenting Arms; Port Arms; Sloping Arms Individually) and 'With Bayonets Fixed' (Presenting Arms; Marching; Fixing Bayonets; Unfixing Bayonets; Fugle Man; Slow Marching; Opening out of Ranks for Street Lining; Changing Arms and Stand at Ease'). No other copy traced, either in the Imperial War Museum, or on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. From the Scovell papers, others being separately listed.