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Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Bound in pale brick red cloth with design (Official War Shield of the 6th Field Company) stamped in black and gilt on upper board and lettering on spine. Badly bumped on upper fore tips with minor creasing throughout the text block, and minor bumping on bottom front tip. Internally endpapers are sound, text is unmarked and clean. Dust jacket repeats the Official War Shield on the front panel with text on the rear panel. There is a large piece missing from the rear panel (not affecting text), and smaller chips along the top and bottom edges and a few tears. Not dated. An important and uncommon history of this army unit originally established in North Vancouver, BC. Inscribed on the front pastedown "To Sam from Ted / Xmas 1955", Ted being the Assistant Historian of the book, and one of the engineers that went overseas with the unit. 141 pages with lists of fatal casualties and wounded plus many B&W photos of the unit (including a fold-out panorama of the unit taken in 1941) and its work. Laid into this copy is a signed typed memo from Ted Thomas which sheds light on the publication of this book. In part the memo states "This history was printed in the late 1940's in a limited edition of 500 copies". Signed by Editor.…