The Coldstream Guards 1914-1918
ROSS-OF-BLADENSBURG, Sir John
Volume I [with] Volume II [with] Maps Volume. 'Nulli Secundus'.
BRIGHT, CRISP, CLEAN SET
Published: Oxford University Press, 1928
Stock code: 39251
Price: £240.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 27 maps (a number folding) in separate volume; navy cloth, upper boards framed and blocked in gilt enclosing regimental badge in gilt and colours, gilt backs, uncut, upper joint of map volume split (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy.
The standard history of the regiment in the Great War. The Coldstreams fielded three battalions , all of which went to France and remained there throughout the war. A fourth battalion became the Pioneer Battalion of the Guards Division on its formation in 1915. Falls p.126; Sutcliffe, p.6; White p.43.