Stirling (John)
COLONIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902
Their Record, Based on the Despatches
Published: London, 1907
Stock Number: #5668/2
Price: R2,500
Approximately:
497 pages, 8vo (230 x 150 mm), original blue cloth, small uncancelled library stamps of the FitzRoy Public Library and foxing on the preliminary pages, spine gilt and starting to fray at the bottom.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 2 page 439: ?The volume is something like an enlarged directory showing where any particular regiment or battery added to, or mayhap lost, some of its reputation, and it endeavours to enumerate the number of mentions each regiment or battery got in the chief despatches written during the war. Where casualties are mentioned, it is more to bring out the severity of the fighting in a particular engagement than to compile statistics.?