The First Battalion Duchess of Connaught’s Own (late 124th D.C.O. Baluchistan Infantry) and The Tenth Battalion (late 2/124th Baluchistan Infantry). The Tenth Baluch Regiment
( Baluch Regiment ) CHALDECOTT, O. A.
NEAR FINE COPY OF A SCARCE INDIAN REGIMENTAL HISTORY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Published: [Privately Printed] Times of India Press, n.d. [c.1935]
Stock code: 50993
Price: £360.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plate amnd 11 folding maps in pocket at rear; maroon regimental cloth, upper board with insignia blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy.
Published [for] Lt.-Col. J.N. Soden, Baluchistan Regiment, Karachi. 'A well-produced history of the 1st and 10th Battalions of the 10th Baluch Regiment which were reconstituted as such in 1922' (Perkins). Includes brief accounts of earlier campaigns (mainly the Mutiny and Second Afghan War) before concentrating on WWI: Mesopotamia (1916-1918); Palestine (1918-1920); South Persia (1918-1919) for the relief of Shiraz. Appendices give ROH (WWI); H&A (WWI) ; Stations (1820-1934). EXTREMELY SCARCE. Perkins, p.131.