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Green hardback cloth cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Splitting to external joints. Corners bumped. Endpapers browned. Previous owner's inscription to fep. Contents clean and tight. 260mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). xiii, 227pp. 7 folding maps; b/w plates and additional maps within the text. The narrative is based on the Battalion War Diary, supplemented by information obtained from personal diaries and letters and from other sources.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Original green cloth, gilt. No dust jacket. First Edition. [Darlington]: Committee of Past and Present Officers [Durham Light Infantry HQ], 1931. Very Good++ condition. Light cover soil. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Endpapers only show some browning. Text pages are fresh and crisp, probably unread. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Well-illustrated with 29 photographs/sketches and 18 maps, several folding. Includes one chapter on 2/5 and 3/5 Battalions. From the Preface: "The narrative is based on the Battalion War Diary, supplemented by information obtained from personal diaries and letters and from other sources." Six appendices: Roll of Honour; Summary of Casualties; Roll of Officers and Men Who Went to Flanders with the Battalion in April, 1915; Summary of Honours and Decorations; Record of Battles and Engagements; Notes on the Illustrations. A detailed history of the battalion's service during World War I. The 50th (Northumbrian) Division was extended to three battalions for war service in 1914. Starting in October 1916, the 2/5th served as a garrison battalion in Salonika, while the 3/5th formed the 5th (Reserve) Battalion. In 1915 the 1/5th went to France. On the Western Front they saw a great deal of action at the battles of Ypres (1915, 1917); actions of the Bluff (1916); the Somme (1916, 1918); Arras (1917); and battles of the Lys, Estaires, Hazelbrouck, and the Aisne. Keywords: World War I. Great War. British Military History. First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth, gilt/No dust jacket. 8vo. xiii, 227pp.…