Alderson, E - With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force 1896

Methuen, London, 1898. 308 pages, index, casualty list, illustrations, sketch maps and plans. The author commanded the British Mounted Infantry during  the suppression of the uprisings in what was then Rhodesia in 1896.  Considerable detail and interesting appendices. Signed by author  - 'To The Officers Mess, Depot the Queen's Own Regiment from the Author - signature - 1898'. Sl handling wear to blue cloth boards, gilt depiction of two soldiers on front board, corners bumped, spine sl sprung, no dj, foxing. Scrace signed copy. G-.