About this Item
Published: 1948. First Edition. Signed by author. Signature to front paste down. DESCRIPTION: Regimental green cloth with block silver crest to front and titles to spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear to bumped upper corners and spine ends. Sunned spine. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact endpapers. Minor light pencil annotations to endpapers. Strong hinges. Clean unmarked pages and text block edges. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages 182. Size: 22cm by 14cm. PROVENANCE: Major General P. J. Shears. The book appears to have been given to C. Richard Ward and possibly returned to the author at a later date evidenced by the slip addressed to Major General P.J. Shears from the General Secretary of the Border Regiment Association, The Castle Carlisle. AUTHOR: Major-General Philip James Shears (1887-1972) was a senior officer in the British Army. He was born on 6 April 1887 in Surbiton, Surrey, the only son of James Charles Shears, a mechanical engineer from Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and Beatrice Jane Margaret Dumas. He was also a great-grandson of coppersmith Daniel Towers Shears, a partner of James Shears and Sons. He went on to serve as Colonel of The Border Regiment (now part of The Kings Own Royal Border Regiment) from 1947 to 1952. In 1948 Philip Shears published The Story of the Border Regiment, 1939-1945. BOOK RESUME: Details the wartime operations of 1-9 Battalions, 70 Battalion, 18 Infantry Holding Battalion and the Home Guard. Includes details of honours, awards, mentions in dispatches. The Borders had a distinguished war most notably Arnhem and Kohima. Seller Inventory # 9997
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Story of the Border Regiment 1939-1945; ...
Publisher: Nisbet & Co Ltd, London
Publication Date: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ
Signed: Signed by author
Edition: 1st Edition
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