THE CHESHIRE (EARL OF CHESTER'S) YEOMANRY
1897-1967
The last British regiment to fight on horseback
LT.-COL. SIR RICHARD VERDIN
1971
First edition. Signed and inscribed.
Regimental history.
CONTENTS
1898-1914
England 1914-16
Egypt 1916-17
Palestine 1917-18
France 1918
The 2nd Line in the 1914-18 War
Inter War Years
England 1939
The Journey out to the Middle East
Palestine 1940
Palestine 1941
The Regiment in the Syrian Campaign
"B" Squadron in the Syrian Campaign
Epilogue to the Syrian Campaign
The Occupation of the Lebanon
Winter 1941-42
Conversion to Signals
The Regiment as Signals in the Middle East
Signals Troops and Section detached while in the Middle East
England 1944-45 North West Europe
196 Medium W/T Troop (Cheshire Yeomanry)
The Yeomanry as an Armoured Regiment 1947-58
The Yeomanry as a Reconnaissance Regiment 1958-67
SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTERS
The Regiment 1797-1897
The 21st and 22nd Companies in South Africa 1900-1
The Arming of the Jews
Sport in the Regiment 1939-45
APPENDIXES
I Officers who joined the Regiment, 1898-1967
II Rolls of Honour
III Nominal Roll of Cheshire Yeomen who served with the 21st and 22nd Companies of the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa, 1900-1
IV Nominal Roll of the Regiment in March 1916
V Nominal Roll of Non-commissioned Officers and Men who embarked for Haifa December 1939
VI Miscellaneous Verses
INDEX
23 x 16 cm. xviii + 666 pp + colour & b/w plates.
Very good + condition, dust jacket slightly age toned. Small number stamp on the front free endpaper. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page, otherwise clean and tidy, binding firm.