1900 History of the Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia (Fourth Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry) 1778-1900 Including the Diary of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Mosley Crowder, 1852-1885.

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Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce

First edition. Very scarce work. Signed and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper, in presentation to Col. J. A. Strachan, dated September 1900. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. Collated, lacking four plates with the frontispiece detached but present. A history of the Fourth Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry, a Territorial Force unit that became the 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, which served in both the First and Second World Wars. With information of the formation and organization of the regiment, annual trainings, commanding officers, and more. With extracts from the diary of Lieut.-Col. Thomas Mosley Crowder. Written by Lieut.-Col. Frank Willan, an English rower and Militia officer.