Author:
CRUM Major F.M.
Title:
With The Mounted Infantry In South Africa Being Side Lights On The Boer Campaign 1899-1902
Price:
£120.00
Year:
1903
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Macmillan and Bowes
City of Publication:
Cambridge
Summary:
(8) - 223 pages, pages uncut, printed for private circulation, the contents heavily foxed throughout. Publishers' emerald, green cloth with red tile label, old crease mark to rear lower outer corner a few mark to the cloth, a good + copy. Crum experiences in the Boer War which made him an ardent supporter of the use of sniping. He was invited by General Skinner to join his staff of the 41st Brigade to run the snipers and intelligence unit, later starting a brigade school for sniping. A keen supporter of the boy scout movement.
Ref:
23277
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