Historical Record of The 6th Gurkha Rifles Volume I 1817-1919

Printed by Gale & Polden For Private Circulation Only. Date:1925, but foreword dated 1926. First edition. Original cloth embossed in silver to the spine and front board. Marbled endpapers. Size: 15cm x 22cm. pp. xxiv + 329. Profusely illustrated throughout and with 20 maps and sketches. A detailed regimental history covering the period from 1817 from when it was known as The Cuttack Legion to 1903 when it became The 6th Gurkha Rifles through to the end of the First World War. Binding nice and tight, bright and clean with only slight rubbing to the edges. Pages and maps generally very nice and clean with occasional slight foxing. A near fine copy. Very scarce.