The 47th (London) Division 1914-1919
MAUDE, ed., Alan H.
By Some who served with it in the Great War. With a Foreword by the Viscount Esher.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Amalgamated Press, 1922
Stock code: 42256
Price: £84.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 73 plates on 49, 11 illustrations (6 full-page) in the text, folding map coloured in outline, and 10 large folding maps on japon bound in at end, fore-edge lightly spotted; original red cloth, upper board with double frame border enclosing divisional emblem all in gilt, gilt back, neatly rebacked with old backstrip (faded) laid down, laid endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
One of the most detailed WWI British divisional histories, well illustrated with both photographs and maps. 'Those who served for any length of time in France will recall that the 47th Division always ranked very high among British troops' (Falls). The 47th was the first Territorial division to be engaged as a formation on the Western Front; it served at Festubert, Loos, the Somme, Messines, Cambrai and in the fiercest actions of 1918. Enser, p.61; Falls, p.118.